GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE INTEGRATED INFORMATIONAL SYSTEM OF TRACKING TIMBER— SUMAL IN THE ACTUAL CONTEXT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v10i2.2804Abstract
In order to fight the illegal deforestation, as well as to reduce the criminal facts in the forestry field and the inappropriate forestry, it was constituted and implemented the integrated informational system of tracking timber in real time, called SUMAL. This system can provide information regarding the complete tracking of timber, from the moment of harvesting it to the final processing or export.
References
I. Treaties, courses
- Mircea Duţu, “Dreptul internaţional al mediului†(International Environmental Legislation), EdituraEconomică, BucureÅŸti, 2004;
-Daniela Marinescu, Maria-Cristina Petre, “Tratat de dreptul mediului†(Treaty of Environmental Legislation), ediţia a V-a, revised and amended, Editura Universitară, BucureÅŸti, 2014.
II. Legislation
-Law no.46/2008of the Forestry Code, republished, (the Official Gazette no.611 of August 12th2015);
-Government Decision no.470/2014for approving the Norms on the origin, movement and marketing of timber, the regime of timber storage facilities and installations of processing round wood as well as measures for implementing the Regulation (EU) 995/2010 of the European Parliament and Council of October 20th2010 establishing the obligations of operators who introduce timber and timber products on the market, with subsequent modifications and amendments,(the Official Gazette no.426 from June 10th 2014);
-Government Decision no.845/2015establishing certain obligations and sanctions incumbent on operators who introduce timber products on the market for the first time, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 20th2010 establishing the obligations of operators who introduce on the market wood and wood products, (the Official Gazette no.771 of October 15th2015);
-Order no.837/2014for the approval of the Methodology regarding the organization and functioning of SUMAL, the obligations of SUMAL users, the structure and the means to provide standardized information (the Official Gazette no.761 of October 21st2014);
-Order no.596/2014regarding the approval of the Methodology for testing the implementation of the Integrated Informational System of Tracking Timber (the Official Gazette no.491 of July 2nd2014).
III. European Legislation
-Regulation (UE) no.995/2010 establishing the obligations of operators who introduce timber and timber products on the market;
-Regulation (CE) no.2173/2005establishing a FLEGT licensing scheme for imports of timber into the European Community;
-Regulation (UE) no.363/2012 on procedural rules for proper recognition and withdrawal of monitoring organizations, stipulated in the Regulation (EU) no. 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the obligations of operators who introduce timber and timber products on the market;
-The European Parliament Resolution of April 28th2015 regarding “A new EU strategy for forests and forestry sectorâ€/P8_TA(2015)0109;
-The Commission Communication of September 20th 2013 named “A new EU strategy for forests and forestry sectorâ€/COM(2013)659 final;
-The Commission Communication of June 15th2006 concerning a European Union action plan for forests/COM(2006) 302 final.
IV. Other sources
