Brussels, 20/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on 19 January, the European Parliament (EP) gave its backing to voluntary partnership agreements (VPAs) signed with Cameroon and Congo Brazzaville (see EUROPE 10230) to ensure that, in future, only timber that has been legally felled and products made from legal timber can be exported to the European market by these two major tropical wood exporting African countries. MEPs expressed reservations and made recommendations on the VPAs which...