Economic accessibility of forest resources in Northwest Russia

The project on the Economic accessibility of forest resources in Northwest Russia started in late 2001 and was introduced in this Bulletin in 2003. Since then the focus of the project has been on forest resources as well as economic accessibility. The objectives of assessing the geographical distribution of different wood harvesting levels taking into consideration road accessibility and transportation costs at the enterprise level and coordinating and building a synthesis on the availability of wood resources and their economic accessibility are still relevant.

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Development of vocational continuing education in the Russian forest sector

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Investigation on legal questions of the Russian forests utilization

The project "Investigation on legal questions of the Russian forests utilization" started in 2003 and will be continued in 2005. The focus of the project is the legal regulation of business and investments in the field of forestry in the Russian Federation. It concentrates on the development of the legal framework of the forest economy, which is the topic of general interest of Finnish forest industry, including both importers from Russia and investors in Russia.

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Development of Voluntary Forest Certification in Russia

Voluntary forest certification has become an indicator of environmental quality for wood and forest products. Vice-president of the Union of Timber Merchants and Timber Exporters of Russia, Mr. A.V. Frolov stated that “In recent years, each meeting of people dealing with forest can hardly occur without discussing forest certification as a remedy against all forest diseases” (Forest Certification in Russia #1(01)/2003. Supplement to the Russian Timber Merchant and Timber Exporter Magazine).

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