LEGALITY DEFINITION. The legality definition states the aspects of a VPA partner country’s law for which the timber legality assurance system evaluates evidence of compliance.
LEGALITY DEFINITION. Introduction Indonesian timber is deemed legal when its origin and production process as well as subsequent processing, transport and trade activities are verified as meeting all applicable Indonesian laws and regulations. Indonesia has five legality standards articulated through a series of principles, criteria, indicators and verifiers, all based on the underlying laws, regulations and procedures. These five standards are: — Legality Standard 1: the standard for concessions within production forest zones on state-owned lands; — Legality Standard 2: the standard for community plantation forests and community forests within production forest zones on state-owned lands; — Legality Standard 3: the standard for privately-owned forests; — Legality Standard 4: the standard for timber utilisation rights within non-forest zones on state-owned lands; — Legality Standard 5: the standard for primary and downstream forest based industries. These five legality standards apply to different types of timber permits as set out in the following table: Permit type Description Land ownership / resource management or utilisation Applicable legality standard IUPHHK-HA/HPH Permit to utilise forest products from natural forests State owned/ company managed 1 IUPHHK-HTI/HPHTI Permit to establish and manage industrial forest plantation State owned/ company managed 1 IUPHHK-RE Permit for forest ecosystem restoration State owned/ company managed 1 IUPHHK- HTR Permit for community forest plantations State owned/ community managed 2 IUPHHK-HKM Permit for community forest management State owned/ community managed 2 Private Land No permit required Privately owned/ privately utilised 3 IPK/ILS Permit to utilise timber from non-forest zones State owned/ privately utilised 4 IUIPHHK Permit for establishing and managing a primary processing company Not applicable 5 IUI Lanjutan or IPKL Permit for establishing and managing a secondary processing company Not applicable 5 These five legality standards and the associated verifiers are outlined below. EN
LEGALITY DEFINITION. The Legality Definition (LD) sets out the core requirements of legislation applicable to timber in Viet Nam as presented in Annex II to this Agreement. The LD is based on existing laws and legislation in place and has been developed through consultation with government, privatesector and civilsociety stakeholders in Viet Nam. After ratification of this Agreement, Viet Nam shall notify the Union of any changes pertaining to verifiers or legal references in the LD through the JIC, and the JIC shall examine the extent of the changes and the impacts on the LD at least every second year during implementation of this Agreement as specified in Annex IX. Viet Nam shall make public all relevant legislation referred to in the LD and any amendments thereto, as specified in Annex VIII.
LEGALITY DEFINITION. The legality definition clearly states the aspects of Indonesian law for which the timber legality assurance system will systematically seek evidence of compliance. Indonesia has different legality definitions for different kinds of rights and permits for forest use.
