Forestry

Joint Session of the 40th European Forestry Commission and the 77th UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry

Geneva (Switzerland), 04/11/2019 - 07/11/2019

Created in 1947, the European Forestry Commission (EFC) is one of six Regional Forestry Commissions established by FAO to provide a policy and technical forum for countries to discuss and address forest issues on a regional basis. It meets every two years.

European Forest Week

In 2019, the 5th European Forest Week was celebrated in conjunction with Forêt2019, the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI), and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). The theme was Forests and the Circular Economy.

Session documents

FO:EFC/2019/01 Annotated provisional agenda for the joint session of the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the European Forestry Commission

FO:EFC/2019/02 Report of the seventy-seventh session of the Economic Commission for Europe Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the fortieth Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization European Forestry Commission

FO:EFC/2019/03 Forests and the Circular Economy

FO:EFC/2019/04 Strategic Review of the Warsaw Integrated Programme of Work

FO:EFC/2019/05 Establishment and renewal of the ECE/FAO Teams of Specialists

FO:EFC/2019/06 Review of 2019 activities, and activities and publications planned for 2020

FO:EFC/2019/07 Forest Ownership in the ECE region (executive summary)

FO:EFC/2019/08 Executive Summary of the ECE/FAO/Forest Europe Guidelines on the Promotion of Green Jobs in Forestry

FO:EFC/2019/09 Draft Forest Products Market Statement

FO:EFC/2019/14/Rev.1 Follow-up to the decisions of the 39th Session of the European Forestry Commission

FO:EFC/2019/15/Rev.2 Forestry Activities of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

FO:EFC/2019/16 Progress of Silva Mediterranea

FO:EFC/2019/17 Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds report

FO:EFC/2019/18 Emerging invasive species risk to European and Central Asian forests

FO:EFC/2019/19 FAO’s work on biodiversity

FO:EFC/2019/20 Outcome of global policy processes of relevance for the Regional Forestry Commissions

FO:EFC/2019/21 Implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests and Collaboration with the UN Forum on Forests

FO:EFC/2019/22 Preparations for the thirty-second Session of the Regional Conference for Europe, the twenty-fifth Session of the Committee on Forestry and the XV World Forestry Congress

FO:EFC/2019/23 The role of sustainable wood value chains in achieving the SDGs

FO:EFC/2019/Inf.1 List of Documents

FO:EFC/2019/Inf.2 Capacity-building in the Caucasus and Central Asia

FO:EFC/2019/Inf.3 Declaration of Competence and Voting Rights submitted by the European Union and its Member States

FO:EFC/2019/Inf.4 ECE/FAO/Forest Europe Guidelines on the Promotion of Green Jobs in Forestry