ECE/FAO Teams of Specialists report to the Fortieth session of the Joint ECE/FAO Working Party on Statistics, Economics and Management1

Items for regular reporting to the JWPFSEM

1. Name:

Team of Specialists (ToS) on Sustainable Forest Products Team website http://www.unece.org/forests/areas-of-work/forestsfpm/methods-and-processes/ team-of-specialists-on-sustainable-forest-products.html

2. Period covered:

April 2017 – March 2018

3. Leader/Deputies and Secretary:

Leader: Eoin O’DRISCOLL Deputies: Mr. Branko GLAVOJIC, Mr. Jeremy WALL Secretary: Matt FONSECA

4. Members:

86

5. Countries:

30 countries: , Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, , Georgia, , Ireland, , Lithuania, , New Zealand, Norway, Poland, , Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uzbekistan

1 This report is reproduced as provided by the Team of Specialists, without further editing by the secretariat. 6. Meetings held:

The ToS on Sustainable Forest Products met on 28th March 2017 and on 11th October 2017.

7. Outputs and impacts achieved during last year:

The ToS was instrumental in the preparation and review of the FPAMR 2016-2017 and assisting with the agenda for the Market Discussions in Warsaw. We worked with the UNECE Secretariat to provide a range of keynote speakers for LAS2017.

Worked with the organizers of LAS2017 to provide a range of tours for the participants who attended LAS 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.

We provided timber utilization photos for the FPAMR and assisted the UNECE Secretariat to find chapter authors for the FPAMR (2017).

8. Outputs and impacts expected for coming year:

Continue to work with the UNECE Secretariat to improve and update the FPAMR.

Work with the organizers of the 76th session of the ECE Committee on and the Forest Industry (COFFI) to be held in Vancouver, Canada from 5th to 9th November 2018 to ensure the involvement of the forest products sector in our market discussions.

9. Issues for the attention of the Working Party:

No specific issues, however, any feedback regarding potential tasks or projects that the Team could undertake are welcomed.

10. Other comments: (collaboration with other ToS)

Collaboration with other teams is welcomed.

Date: 27/02/2018

ANNEX: List of members of the Team of Specialists (as of 27 February 2018)

Title First Last Name Organization Country2 Name Mr. Martti Aarne Natural Resources Institute Finland Finland Luke Mr. Francisco Aguilar- Department of United States Cabezas University of Missouri of America Prof. Eduard Akim Saint Petersburg State Russian University of Industrial Federation Technologies and Design. Mr. Delton Alderman USDA Forest Service United States of America Mr. Octavian Anghel National Forest Administration Romania - ROMSILVA Mr. Ramazan Bali General Directorate of Forestry Turkey

Dr. Annemarie Bastrup- European Environment Agency Denmark Birk (EEA) Mr. Diego Benedetti European Organization of the Belgium Sawmill Industry Mr. Eric Boilley Le Commerce du Bois France

Ms. Isabelle Brose European Federation of the Belgium Parquet Industry Mr. Antonio Brunori PEFC Council asbl Italy

Mr. Matthew Bumgardner USDA Forest Service United States of America Mr. Aasm. Bunkholt Focus Norway Norway

Mr. Nikolay Burdin NIPIEI lesprom Russian Federation Mr. Gregorio Chamorro Ministerio de Agricultura, Spain García Alimentación y Medio Ambiente Ms. Linn Christiansen Swedish Forest Agency Sweden

Mr. Douglas Clark United Kingdom

2 The country indicates the geographical location of the organization of the member of the Team of Specialist and is not indicative of official representation. Mr. Gordon Culbertson Forest2Market, Inc. United States of America Dr. Natalia Demidova Northern Research Institute of Russian Forestry Federation Mr. Pierre Desclos Forest Products Consultants Italy

Prof. Ivan Eastin University of Washington United States of America Mr. Hakan Ekstrom Wood Resources International United States LLC of America Ms. Kathryn Fernholz Dovetail Partners United States of America Mr. Robert Flynn RISI

Dr. Christopher Gaston University of British Columbia Canada / FPInnovations Dr. Branko Glavonjic Belgrade State University Serbia

Mr. Víctor González Team of Experts, Sustainable Spain Forest Products Mr. Jorge Gosálbez Ministerio de Agricultura, Spain Ruiz Alimentación y Medio Ambiente M. Pierre Hermans SYLVA NOVA Belgium

Ms. Annika Hyytiä University of Helsinki, Finland Finland

Mrs. Natia Iordanishvil National Forestry Agency Georgia i Dr. Gerben Janse Swedish Forest Agency Sweden

Mr. Erno Jarvinen Central Union of Agricultural Finland Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) Dr. Krzysztof Jodlowski PEFC Poland Poland

Mr. Robert Jones Natural Resources Canada Canada

Mr. Surendra Joshi Swedish Forest Agency Sweden

Ms. Dominika Kacaba IKEA of Sweden Sweden Mr. Stefan Karlsson Swedish Forest Agency Sweden

Prof. Orest Kiyko Ukrainian National Forestry Ukraine University Mr. Antti Koskinen Pöyry Management Consulting Finland Oy Dr. Florian Kraxner International Institute for Austria Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Mr. Sylvain Labbé Quebec Wood Export Bureau Canada

Mrs. Marion Le Roy European Panel Federation Belgium

Mr. Arvydas Lebedys Food and Agriculture Italy Organization of the United Nations Mr. Dieter Lechner Association of the Austrian Austria Wood Industries Mr. Bernard Lombard Confederation of European Belgium Paper Industries (CEPI) Prof. Warren Mabee Queens University Canada

Mrs. Sajdak Magdalena Wood Technology Institute Poland

Ms. Frances Maplesden New Zealand

Mr. Karolis Mickevicius State Forest Service Lithuania

Mr. Patrik Mlynar Ministry of Agriculture Czech Republic Mr. Philippe Monchaux France

Mr. Peter Moonen Canadian Wood Council Canada

Prof. Gert-Jan Nabuurs Wageningen University and Netherlands Research Mr. Igor Novoselov Whatwood Russian Federation Mr. Eoin O'Driscoll Department of Agriculture, Ireland Food & the Marine Mr. Jan Oldenburger Probos Foundation Netherlands Mr. Rupert Oliver Forest Industries Intelligence United Ltd Kingdom Mr. Tapani Pahkasalo Quantum Global Switzerland

Ms. Tatiana Pasi Swiss Federal Office for the Switzerland Environment Prof. Ewa Ratajczak Wood Technology Institute Poland

Mr. Steffen Rathke Holzwerk Keck, Keck GmbH Germany

Mr. Sadig Salmanov Federal Office for the Azerbaijan Environment FOEN Mr. Achim Schafer Forest Division Switzerland

Prof. Gerhard Schickhofer Graz University of Technology Austria

Mr. Mukhtarjon Shojalilov Ministry of Agriculture and Uzbekistan Akramovich Water Resources of Uzbekistan Mr. Kenneth E. Skog USDA Forest Service United States of America Prof. Bob Smith Department of Wood Science United States and Forest Products, Virginia of America Tech Mr. Steve Smith European Commission Belgium

Prof. Tobias Stern Austria

Ms. Sarah Storck

Mr. Aliaksandr Surta Ministry of Forestry Belarus

Mr. Reima Sutinen Ministry of Employment and Finland Tapio the Economy Mr. Michal Synek Forest Management Institute, Czech Czech Republic Republic Dr. Andrzej Talarczyk Bureau for Forest Management Poland and Geodesy Mr. Russell Taylor FEA Canada / WOOD Canada MARKETS Ms. Anne Toppinen University of Helsinki Finland

Mr. Mati Valgepea Estonian Environment Agency Estonia Mr. Michel Valois Valois Vision Marketing Canada

Mr. Mark Van Stichting Probos Netherland Benthem Ms. Elena Velichkova State Forest Agency Bulgaria

Prof. Richard Vlosky Louisiana Forest Products United States Development Center of America Dr. Dinko Vusić University of Zagreb, Faculty Croatia of Forestry Mr. Jeremy Wall European Commission Belgium

Dr. Holger Weimar Thünen Institute Germany