Free training available on new risk assessments and tools for EU Timber Regulation due diligence

Meeting the due diligence legality requirements of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) can be a challenge. But there’s help at hand as we’re running some free training courses this autumn. The training is part of a project we’re running that’s funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union and the UK’s Department for International Development.

At the courses, you’ll be able to:

• Find out more about the EU Timber Regulation and how it’s being implemented.
• Learn about the NEPCon Sourcing Hub and how it can help make your due diligence easier. The Sourcing Hub provides free information on the risk that timber was sourced in a way that breached harvesting, trade or transport laws in its country of origin. A preview of these risk assessments is available on the NEPCon Sourcing Hub, via www.nepcon.org/sourcinghub. By autumn, information will be available for 62 timber-producing countries, making it the biggest and most detailed collection of forest legality risk assessments that have ever been published.
• Conduct some hands-on exercises to help you learn about the tools and risk assessments available on the NEPCon Sourcing Hub.

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There will be training courses in 12 EU countries, one online webinar for people who cannot make it to the in-person training, plus two events aimed at Competent Authorities and one event aimed at other Monitoring Organisations. All the courses are one day events.

If you’re interested in attending, you need to register your interest via www.nepcon.org/events. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Ann Weddle on [email protected].

Click here for the press release.