TTAP

What is 'TTAP'?

The TFT provides executive management of the Timber Trade Action Plan (TTAP)

Illegal logging threatens to undermine the positive role that commercial forestry can play at a local and global level.

Government procurement policies, banking investment rules, NGO campaigns, greater consumer awareness and intergovernmental agreements are all important elements in the drive to exclude illegal timber from European markets. Making sure that timber is from known, legal sources is an essential part of any effort to manage forests sustainably.

TTAP offers Europe’s importers, traders and their suppliers an opportunity to be at the forefront of efforts to promote legal forestry, and to access premium European markets.

TTAP will enhance the integrity of the global timber industry whilst complementing international efforts to tackle poverty and corruption. TTAP is managed by the timber trade federations of Europe’s leading timber importers: Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.

TTAP is open to all of Europe’s timber trade federations and their members, and will run over five years from March 2005 to February 2010.

TTAP will work with timber producers based in: Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Funds from participating timber trade federations are matched with a 3.5 million grant from the European Union, providing substantial support to pioneering companies.

What does TTAP do in producer countries?

At the invitation of European companies and their producer country suppliers, TTAP will carry out an assessment of specific points in the wood supply chain. We will help companies to identify potential weaknesses that could allow illegal timber to enter the supply chain, and we help to draw up action plans, suggesting solutions to these problems.

We aim to carryout around 350 assessments over five years. For 35 selected supply chains we will go on to provide training and financial support, helping companies to put in place a timber tracking system that will enable them to trace wood from the supplying forest through to their processing factories.

What will TTAP do in Europe?

Through consultation with the members of participating timber trade federations and our producer country partners, TTAP will help the European timber trade federations draw up a framework for self regulation. This will identify standards for:

  • Chain of Custody/timber tracking
  • Independent auditing
  • Identifying legal timber.

TTAP will also develop a database of organisations that can help supply chains to secure and maintain legal timber supplies. We will provide valuable information from research and studies, enabling European market leaders and their producer country suppliers to tap into the growing demand for independently verified legal timber.

More information

TTAP Address

www.timbertradeactionplan.info

TTAP Partners:

Emily Fripp, TTAP Manager
Tropical Forest Trust
Tel: +44 (0) 1329 833443
e.fripp@tropicalforesttrust.com

Guy Daelmans
FBCIB (Belgian Timber Importers’ Federation)
Tel: +32 (0) 2 219 43 73 / 229 32 66
info@boisimport.be

André de Boer
VVNH (Netherlands Timbertrade Association)
Tel: +31 (0) 36 532 1020
info@vvnh.nl

Andy Roby
UK-Timber Trade Federation
Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 1891
ttf@ttf.co.uk

Malaysian Timber Council (MTC)
Tel: +44 (0) 207 222 8188
council@mtc.co.uk

Mulawarman University
Tel: +62 (0) 541 741118 / 741797
rektorat@unmul.ac.id

TTAP Associates:

European Hardwood Federation (UCBD)

European Timber Trade Association (FEBO)

French Timber Trade Federation (LCB)

"TTAP is a European Commission (EC) financed project."