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Malaysia and the EU have agreed that an independent
body will be assigned the task to ascertain whether
Malaysian timber products exported to EU countries are
from legal sources. This independent body, to be
appointed via joint consensus between Malaysia and the
EU, will function as the auditing body to certify that
Malaysian timber and related products exported to EU
countries are those that originated from legal timber
sources.
This decision was reached following formal talks between
the EU commissioners and Malaysian authorities in
Sarawak recently. The EU delegation, led
by the European Commission Director of International
Affairs, Directorate of Environment, Soledad Blanco, was
in Malaysia to negotiate a partnership agreement to allow
Malaysian timber to gain entry into all the 25 EU