This one-day workshop was designed to help companies meet the EU Timber Regulation. Participants learnt what the requirements of the EUTR are and how they had been implemented and enforced so far, they also gain an understanding of due diligence and how to use NEPCon’s tools to conduct your own. Guest speakers were also present to give different perspectives and experiences. The afternoon session involved an interactive session using NEPCon’s new Sourcing Hub and the risk assessments and tools available on it to investigate and discuss various sourcing scenarios across a series of themes.
Agenda and Materials
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Speakers
Cristina Santos - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, IP
Cristina Santos works in the Portuguese Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests Services representing the Competent Authority in Portugal. "As the competent authority for EU Timber Regulation in Portugal ICNF considers all initiatives helping operators to fulfil their obligations with regard to the legislation as important. Not only the word of the legislation but the whole idea behind it, fighting illegal logging through trade regulation. NEPCon contributes in this process by supplying information and tools to operators. Operators contribute by sharing their experience. We will present the main roles about what we as the authority need to see when checking operator's due diligence systems." |
Rui Simões - Independent Consultant, NEPCon
Forestry engineer with more than 20 year experience in forest resources project, management and works, acting as operational coordinator mand/or evaluator. Author of several fluvial and desertic restoration projects and field works. Forest auditor on FSC, PEFC in SBP and COC auditor for NEPCon. International experience working includes temperate and tropical regions on english, spanish and french language, besides mother portuguese. |
Leticia Calvo Vialettes - Forest Legality Specialist, NEPCon
Leticia Calvo Vialettes is an experienced timber legality and certification expert with multiple responsibilities within those areas with 9 years of experience within NEPCon. Leticia coordinates NEPCon forest management certification activities in Spain and France and provides Forest Management, Chain of Custody and Legalsource auditing services to customers in Spain and France. She is involved in international projects within timber legality and certification, where she takes advisory or managerial roles. Leticia holds a double university degree in Forestry from Spanish and French institutions and has passed additional training in tropical forestry. She has also passed NEPCon's FSC, PEFC, LegalSource and SAN/Rainforest Alliance lead auditor courses. |
Ariel Zorrilla - Country Manager Spain, NEPCon
Prior to working at NEPCon, Ariel was the Rainforest Alliance Representative in Argentina, University Professor and external consultant for various organisations and a global forestry fund. Ariel brings with him 16 years of experience working with FSC and SAN certification, eco-tourism verification and VCS carbon sequestration verification in South America, Turkey and Central America. He was intensitvely trained on pine plantations in South Africa, and on FSC Certification in the United States of America. Ariel is an Agronomic Engineer from UNNE (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste) in Argentina. He has passed various experts training course for Lead Auditor on different certification systems he works with. |
This workshop was conducted as part of the joint project ‘Supporting Legal Timber Trade’ aimed at supporting timber-related companies in Europe with knowledge, tools and training in the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation. Knowing your timber’s origin is not only good for the forests, but good for business. The joint project was funded by the EU LIFE programme and UK aid from the UK government.