EU Moves Closer to Congo & Cameroon Illegal Logging Agreements
In a bid to fight the trade in illegally-harvested timber, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee gave the go-ahead on November 1, 2010 for the European Commission to conclude voluntary partnership agreements with Congo and Cameroon aimed at stopping illegal…
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logging.The agreements seek to combat bad governance practices and corruption from which the illegal trade stems and also provide for import controls at EU borders.