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| On January 14th 2004, the Slovenian Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry organised a seminar on Slovenian forestry certification.
Ben Gunneberg giving a presentation
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The Slovenian specialists, together with Mr Ben Gunneberg and also representatives from Austria (Mr. Stemberger, President of the PEFC Austria, Mr. Jannach, Jannach GmbH), gave a presentation on the PEFC system.
About 100 guests from forestry enterprises, wood based industry, politicians, environmental organisations gained information about PEFC and its development into the leading certification system worldwide.
For many years Slovenia has successfully managed its forests on the basis of sustainable forest management in order to maintain its biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity and vitality. The existing system of SFM in Slovenia is currently not internationally recognised. Without this international recognition the forest owners and the timber industry are facing considerable difficulties with exports to the EU and world markets.
At the seminar there was a detailed question and answer session which raised topics including the implementation of the PEFC and the benefits that this will bring to the Slovenian forestry industry.
For more information, please contact:
Mr Igor Kotnik
Slovenian Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry
igor.kotnik@kgzs.si
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