Basic Policy for Promoting the Distribution and Use of Legally Harvested Wood and Wood Products.

This Baisic Policy is developed to promote the distribution and use of legally harvested wood and wood products in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
The Policy seeks to make forestry more productive and sustainable. Measures taken by the State to promote the distribution and use of legally harvested wood and wood products include: Confirmation of legality by wood-related business entities; Promotion of registration of wood-related business entities; Information provision. The State will widely collect Information on Laws and Regulations, etc. necessary for Confirmation of Legality conducted by wood-related business entities and provide the information through the Internet and other media. The promotion of the distribution and use of legally harvested wood and wood products serves to sustainably fulfill the multifunctional roles of forests, such as conservation of national land, cultivation of water sources, conservation of natural environment, public health, prevention of global warming, and supply of forest products, thereby contributing to the conservation of the local and global environment. The State will widely disseminate and promote these meanings to the citizens through coordination and cooperation with wood-related business entities, relevant bodies, etc. The State also will cooperate with the International Tropical Timber Organization and other international organs to contribute to improving the capability of enforcing laws and regulations related to forests in the wood-producing nations; furthermore, with activities such as exchanging views on the illegal logging problems with major wood-producing nations, the State will ensure international coordination and promote international cooperation to curtail illegal logging in wood-producing nations. In addition, for the private-sector, the State will encourage relevant domestic and international bodies to exchange information on the promotion of the distribution and use of legally harvested wood and wood products.