European Commission (EC)

Name:	European Commission
Abbreviation:	EC
URL to homepage:	http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
Country:	Belgium

Mandate

To ensure that: Individuals and communities dealing with forests and forestry, and society at large, benefit in an equitable way from forest-related products and services which are produced on a socially, economically and environmentally-sound basis.

The EC supports the forest sector in the following themes:

Promotion of enabling policy, legal and institutional environment
Conservation of ecosystems and of biodiversity of tropical forests
Sustainable management of forest resources
Creation of forest resources
Harvesting, processing, marketing and trading of timber and other forest products
Certification of forest management and forest products
Forestry education and training
Forestry-related research
Forestry information and communication

Relevance to forests by key words

certification, production, capacity building, policy, conservation, research, public awareness