Illegal timber is still leaking in Europe

By remaining legislation in the EU Member States may still illegal timber entering Europe.

This enables the European Court of Auditors in a report Thursday. " The European Union must first get its own house in order and set an example by the trade in illegally harvested timber to deliver a blow. "

The results of the action plan against deforestation, the European Commission launched its twelve years later skinny in 2003, the court shall determine. And while countering illegal logging " critical " for combating climate change and the preservation of species.

The committee made ​​between 2003 and 2013 about 300 million to 35 countries. Indonesia and Ghana are making progress, but generally there been little discernible progress, conclude the accountants.