Report from the Presidency on the past term:

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• Report from the Presidency on the past term
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• A main issue for the presidency during the past
  term has been the continuing work concerning
  Public Relations, by which term the presidency
  is thinking of the internal and the external
  exchanges and flows of information from UEF to
  its members, decision takers on forestry matters,
  likewise organisations within forestry and
  others.
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• It has been the wish of the presidency
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• - to maintain and further strengthen the
  homepage of the UEF in order to make the homepage
  the decisive, stable and obvious tool for
  the spreading and exchange of information among
  foresters in Europe.
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• By the creation of a user friendly and lively
  homepage it is the wish of the presidency to
  promote
•   - the development of new methods and ways of
  exposing the existence of UEF and the role of
  foresters in the European society.
•   - to encourage and secure a larger flow of
  information from the presidency to the members
  and vice versa.

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• The updating of the homepage has been an on going
  process for several years. During 2003 and 2004
  the latest larger renewal took place and a very
  informative and well described manual of the
  homepage was distributed to all members during
  the summer of 2004.
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• A number of expiry dates were since given to the
  member organizations to do their part of the
  updating work concerning their national parts of
  the homepage. The achievements were however small
  and not satisfactory. The homepage of today is
  therefore still in lack of updating from several
  organisations and it has still not achieved to be
  used intentionally by the member organizations as
  an valuable tool for external information about
  their organisations and national events.
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• You must walk before you can run is the old
  saying. The truth of this saying is also valid
  concerning the achievement of greater flow of
  information within and outside the UEF. It is
  therefore necessary that the remaining obstacles
  concerning an overall updating of the homepage
  are to be eliminated. By having the webmaster
  Steffen Brysting to take part in the Congress it
  is the wish of the presidency, that the
  organisations, who are still behind schedule
  concerning the updating, during the days of
  Congress can seek the necessary technical support
  from the webmaster.
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• Niels Christiansen 31.st of May 2005

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Dec.04 Jan. 05 Febr.05 Apr. 05 May 05 Unique
visitors 479 497 521 1554 1840- - - - - - - - -
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hits
Denmark 2017 2330 1137 1219 1542 Hits
France 312 549 ? ? 44 Hits Cyprus 282 177 212 241
201 Hits Nederlands 274 111 72 58 144 Hits
Poland 219 110 519 61 226 Hits Germany 170 212 184
270 509 Hits Finland 65 261 294 285 324 Hits
Norway 22 110 ? 29 36 Hits UK 19 353 67 ? ? ? Hits
Bulgaria ? ? ? 775 809 Hits Romania ? ? ? 247 99
  A questionmark doesnt mean that the country
hasnt been visiting the page during a certain
month only that it was not among the twenty
most visiting countries.
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• I wish to inform you that the next meeting of the
  Advisory Group "Forestry and Cork will take
  place on Friday 8 July 2005 from 9.30 am to 5.30
  pm, at 1040 Brussels, Conference Centre A.
  Borschette, 36 Rue Froissart, (the room will be
  indicated in the entrance). The agenda will
  follow shortly.
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• Please designate and convene yourselves
• 22 experts representing producers and
  cooperatives CPE (1 expert), COPA-COGECA, CEPF,
  ELO, USSE
• 1 expert representing FECOF
• 1 expert representing CFN Nurseries
• 2 experts representing Trade (CELCAA,
  EUROCOMMERCE)
• 11 experts representing Industry (CEI-Bois, CEPI,
  CELiège)
• 3 experts representing Workers (2 EFFAT, 1 UEF)
• 1 expert representing Consumers (BEUC)
• 4 experts representing Environmentalists (EEB,
  WWF-EPO, BIRDLIFE, FORUM FOR PASTORALISM AND
  NATURE CONSERVATION)
• 4 experts representing the Public Forest Sector
  and Forest Research (Mr Gunnar Olofsson, Mr
  Pierre-Olivier Drege, Mr Roberts Stripnieks, Mr
  Risto Päivinen)
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• PLEASE NOTE NEW FINANCIAL RULES FOR REIMBURSEMENT
  OF EXPERTS AVAILABLE ON CIRCA (
  http//www.forum.europa.eu.int/ )
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To the European Commission Comments concerning
the Implementation Report on the EU Forestry
Strategy. During the meeting of the Advisory
Group Forestry and Cork on June the 14.th in
Bruxelles the state of play of the implementation
report on the EU Forestry Strategy was well
described and discussed among the group. In spite
of partly repeating the discussions of the
meeting, I would like to point out three main
topics, which are all of high concern to the
Union of European Foresters. Topics that we hope
it will be possible to increase the focus on
during the further writing of the implementation
report    1.   Due to the present low state of
importance concerning forestry matters within the
EU, it is quite necessary to achieve
more focus in the report on the economic and
social values and potentials of
forestry in regards to both economical and rural
development within the EU. 2.   The report
should hopefully point out more clearly the need
for a stronger profile of forestry
within the EU political and administrative system
than today. 3.   The report should hopefully
indicate more strongly the existing need for
enabling the EU- organisation to secure
better coordination and cooperation among the
members of the EU concerning
forestry. Niels Christiansen Representing Union
of European Foresters in the Advisory Group