Brussels, 31/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - The reinforced EU legislation banning the trade in illegal timber, which entered into force on 3 March of this year, is still not fully applied in almost half of the member states of the EU, according to a preliminary assessment (known as a “scorecard”), which was published by the European Commission on Wednesday 30 July.
More precisely, 12 out of the 28 member states are still not respecting their obligations under the new regulation banning the...