25 Septembre

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CEPF EUROPEAN FOREST COOPERATIVES WORKING
GROUP Draft work plan 2008 2009

• Follow up of cooperatives action plan
• and the wood mobilisation plans
• Strengthening the Cooperatives network

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Activities and results have to be part of the
CEPF action plan and are connected with the EU
Forest action plan

• European Forest Cooperatives are specially
  concerned by key actions 2, 4, 5, 17, 18

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EU FOREST ACTION PLAN KEY ACTIONS
KEY ACTION 2 Research and development with
focus on effective logistics KEY ACTION 4
Promote the use of forest biomass for energy
generation KEY ACTION 5 Cooperation between
forest owners and enhance education and training
KEY ACTION 17 Encourage the use of wood and
other forest products from sustainably managed
forests KEY ACTION 18 Improve information
exchange and communication
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IMMEDIATE NEEDS AFTER THE FIRST SEMINAR

• Explore options for arranging a follow up seminar
• Verify and enlarge the overview of forest owners
  organisations in Europe
• Establish a forest owners organisations network
  database with contact people on national,
  regional and local level
• Finalise the forest owners organisations wood
  mobilisation action plan, and set up concrete
  measures

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Follow up of the Standing Forestry Committee wood
mobilisation actions plan

• working group for bio energy and wood
  mobilisation under the EU Standing Forestry
  Committee
• (Christer SEGERSTEEN)

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WOOD MOBILISATION ACTION PLANS NEED FOREST
COOPERATIVEs STRATEGIES

• EFFICIENT WOOD MARKETING
• Must contribute to forest owners income and
  viable forest economy
• Major contribution to increased sustainable
  cutting up to 150 mill. m3 per year (?)
• Demand driven from the market
• Contribute to forest industry sector
  competitiveness on world wood market

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WOOD MOBILISATION ACTION PLANS NEED FOREST
COOPERATIVEs STRATEGIES (2/4)

• FOREST IMPROVED MANAGEMENT
• Sustainable forest management and sustainable raw
  material
• Improved silviculture, increase the annual growth
• Increased afforestation of unused land or
  agricultural land

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WOOD MOBILISATION ACTION PLANS NEED FOREST
COOPERATIVEs STRATEGIES (3/4)

• Sustainable forest management certification
• Explore options for establishing forest owners
  cooperatives and effective group certification
• Cost effective, combine the need of organising
  the forest owners by providing an important
  incentive
• Closely Cooperate with PEFCC

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WOOD MOBILISATION ACTION PLANS NEED FOREST
COOPERATIVEs STRATEGIES (4/4)

• Respects the ownership rights and keep on
  specific organisation, with powership in
  producers hands and co-operation values
• ? voluntary cooperation
• Advice and information channel to the individual
  forest owner
• Co-operation (to increase efficiency and
  profitability of forestry)

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ALL THE PREVIOUS POINTS NEED A CLOSERCO-OPERATION
INSIDE THE FOREST COOPERATIVES NETWORK

• To better know each countries experiences
• To developp a common knowhow
• To increase performance, efficiency and faster
  developpement

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SUPPORT TOOLS

• Research and development
• Following up on EU Action plan key action 2
  Research and development,
• the Cooperatives working group could
• look at different possibilities to influence
  ongoing RD projects,
• collaborate with others on new RD project,
• assist CEPF in follow up of the Forest Technology
  Platform and the Strategic research agenda.

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SUPPORT TOOLS (2/3)

• Research and development (2/2)
• The Cooperatives working group will however
  focus on research specially affecting the
  cooperatives and forest producers organisations.
• Already identified research projects regarding
• the organisation of forest owners
• the chain of logistics in forestry
• the chain of SIG and numeric data exchanges
• wooschips production

AND... TOMORROW MORNING WORSHOPS NEW INCOME !
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SUPPORT TOOLS (3/3)

• Co-operation projects focused on
• how to organise forest owners into economic
  associations, and to develop local organisation
  for forest management and wood marketing
• how to organise forest owners regarding
  sustainable forest management and certification
  (possible co-project with PEFCC)
• European forest cooperatives network as experts
  network from established forest owners
  cooperative, ready to answer new member states
  demand, with dedicated EU funding, with national
  additional support
•       

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CONCLUSIONS

• EU forest cooperatives working group position in
  BRUXELLES institutions
• CEPF support
• Close cooperation with COPA COGECA
• Cooperation with EUSTAFOR
• Main goals are economic organisation goals
  efficiency, competitivness, concrete actions,
  concrete knowhow exchange

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CONCLUSIONS (2/2)

• Working group immediate missions
• Additional reports on forest owners economic
  associations
• Knowhow database (organisations contact, market,
  ..
• Looking for EU projects and manage cooperation as
  seen previous

AND ?..