Define the Subject

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UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists
Joint Working Party on Forest Economic and
Statistics on Monitoring Forest Resources for
SFM in the UNECE Region
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Working Party guidance
The Joint FAO-UNECE Working Party at its last
session (March 2005, Geneva) provided quidance to
work on the FRA and CI for SFM in the region,
thus providing the starting point guidance for
the Team of Specialists(TIM/EFC/WP.2/2005/9,
pp. 4-6)
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Focus of JWP session

• contribution to the global Forest Resource
  Assessment 2005 implementation
• results of the final meeting of the regional
  Team of Specialists (ToS) on FRA
• planning and modalities of the new Team of
  Specialists
• UNECE/FAO contribution to the Ministerial
  Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe
  (MCPFE) 2007/2008 including
• contribution to reporting on CI for
  Sustainable Forest Management.

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Global FRA 2005 (a)

• Working Party
• - welcomed the well-established coordination
  between regional and global FRA teams in the
  process of this project implementation
• noted the time-consuming and challenging
  process of providing FRA 2005 data by countries,
  checking and validation of these data, as well as
  the lessons learned from the process
• urged those countries, which have not yet
  provided FRA 2005 country reports to do so as
  soon as possible

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Global FRA 2005 (b)

• The necessity to maintain the continuity of
  classifications, terms and definitions applied in
  the regional and global FRA- and CI- related
  work was strongly emphasized.
• Role of the regional Team of Specialists
  (former and newly-established) in this respect
  was noted.

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Regional Team of Specialists (a)

• Working Party
• approved the report recommendations of the
  final ToS meeting (Washington DC, USA, September
  2004),
• - endorsed the provisional agenda for the
  inaugural meeting of the new ToS (Geneva, April
  2005).

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Regional Team of Specialists (b)

• Working Party
• commended the outstanding work done by the
  regional ToS on Forest Resources Assessment
  during the last years, and
• expressed the expectation of comparable
  standards of performance from the successor
  Team.

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MCPFE 2007/08 reporting (a)

• Working Party approved
• ToS / secretariat proposals for the UNECE/FAO
  contribution to the MCPFE 2007/08 reporting on
  State of Forests and Sustainable Forest
  Management in Europe, including
• Road map of the process, suggested timetable
  and modalities of this work.

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MCPFE 2007/08 reporting (b)
Working Party noted that the suggested timetable
is subject to adjustment, depending on the
finally established date of the Warsaw
Ministerial Conference. The strong cooperation
between the UNECE/FAO secretariat and MCPFE
Liaison Unit Warsaw (LUW) was noted and
supported.
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MCPFE 2007/08 reporting (c)
Working Party recommended that the technical
details of the Enquiry (questionnaire) for the
MCPFE 2007/ 08 reporting be carefully discussed
at the first meeting of the ToS
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MCPFE 2007/08 reporting (d)

• Some practical suggestion
• reporting CI data in 3 points in time
  (reference periods),
• change data reporting, and use of the
  information available from other providers (e.g.
  EUROSTAT, IPCC, EEA, JRC-Ispra),
• preference that the reporting for Warsaw
  refers to the same years as the FRA 2005.

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MCPFE Advisory Group and ToS
Working Party underlined the need for a strong
cooperation between the UNECE/FAO ToS and MCPFE
Advisory Group (being established), and noted the
mutually supportive role of these groups.
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MCPFE and Montreal processes
Working Party supported the regional ToS' efforts
to contribute to the harmonisation of the
countries reporting on CI for SFM between the
MCPFE and Montreal processes, while respecting
the autonomy and decision making procedures of
each process.
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MCPFE and Montreal processes
The necessity to establish a working relation in
this respect with the Technical Advisory
Committee of the Montreal Process was
noted (ToS meeting in Wasington, September
2004, LUW contacts, Mr. Mark Gillis contacts,
planned Workshop in Poland)
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Working Party support

• The Working Party confirmed the necessity to
  maintain the regional FRA- and CI- related work
  in the future, and endorsed the activities which
  are underway and planned in work area 2 Forest
  Resources Assessment and Indicators of
  Sustainable Forest Management in the Region.
• Financial /resources support and capacity
  building That is the issue.

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Working Party documents on web http//www.unece.o
rg/trade/timber/docs/ stats-sessions/stats-27/stat
s-27.htm
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