International Tropical Timber Convention
The International Tropical Timber Agreement (ger .: International Tropical Timber Agreement shortly ITTA) is an international environmental and trade agreements with the goal of a sustainable international trade in tropical timber to ensure. It forms the basis for trade in the tropical timber producing and consuming countries that have come together in the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
The original Tropical Timber Convention of 1983 (ITTA, 1983) was replaced by a second convention in 1997 (ITTA, 1994). In 2006, the international community again agreed on a successor agreement (ITTA, 2006).
ITTA, 1983
The first tropical timber agreement dates back to 1983. According to information from the ITTO, the states were reacting to the growing concern at the time about ongoing deforestation , to which the trade in tropical timber made a significant contribution. In the preamble of the new agreement, forest protection and trade interests were given the same priority. According to the ITTO, a “flourishing trade in tropical timber” could be “a key to sustainable development” if it was based on well-used forest resources. As a result, the treaty that was finally adopted is “not an ordinary trade agreement”, but “just as much an agreement for the protection of forests and for development”.
ITTA, 1994
The ITTA 1994 was negotiated in 1994 and came into force on January 1, 1997, thereby replacing its 1983 predecessor.
ITTA, 2006
In order to prepare the negotiations for a successor agreement to ITTA in 1994, a working group set up for this purpose met for the first time in 2003. In 2004 the first official negotiations began. Two years and four conferences later, at the end of the round of negotiations that took place in Geneva from January 16 to 27, 2006 , the diplomats then agreed on the text of the treaty for the ITTA, 2006.
The German government describes the core of the agreement as follows:
- "Trade in legally harvested tropical wood from sustainably managed forests and the sustainable management of wood-producing tropical forests are the main goals of ITTA 2006."
The ITTA 2006 came into force in 2011.
Web links
- International Tropical Timber Organization : International Tropical Timber Agreement , information on the two agreements ITTA, 1994 and ITTA, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ^ International Tropical Timber Organization: About ITTO
- ↑ International Institute for Sustainable Development: Summary of the UN Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, Fourth Part: 16-27 January 2006 (PDF; 543 kB)
- ^ German Bundestag: Briefing by the Federal Government: Eighth report by the Federal Government on the activities of the Joint Fund for Raw Materials and the individual raw materials agreements (PDF; 180 kB), printed matter 16/3083, October 19, 2006
- ^ ITTO: New accord for tropical forests enters into force , December 12, 2011.