TTF Country Briefing Note

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TTF Country Briefing Note

• Summary for Ghana

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Summary of issues

• Main legality issues
• High incidence of illegal cutting.
• Legal use rights Harvesting operations under
  previously issued permits, potentially
  technically illegal under current forest
  legislation Act 571
• Legal FM Reports of inadequate enforcement of
  forest management regulations ie absence of
  management plans
• Fees Taxes No major reported issue
• Legal transport CoC Reports of inadequate law
  enforcement in the document control for
  transportation eg no legality check requirements
  for imports of timber which could be from illegal
  sources.

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Summary of issues

• Additional issues
• HCVF Occurrence of HCVs in forest reserves
  highly likely
• Conversion Conversion of off forest reserve into
  other land-use eg agriculture
• Social issues None significant

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Summary of issues

• Documentation
• CPI 3.3 Low overall reliability of official
  documentation.