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News Release from: Forestry Commission
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Team on 23 September 2003
New Expert Group On Timber And Trade
Statistics
The Forestry Commission has established a new Expert Group on Timber and Trade Statistics.
The Group will take forward much of the work previously carried out by the Supply and Demand sub-committee of the Forestry Commission's Advisory Panel The new Group will continue to work on compiling information on the supply and demand of timber and forest products
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The Group will also be asked to advise on information needs in new areas, including the developing wood-fuel markets, forest certification, industry, manpower and machinery resources, and international trade statistics and impact of imports.
The Group will examine the models and conventions used to generate some of the statistics and the research programmes that support improvement of the models.
It will be asked to look at information needs across the sector and to avoid duplication of timber and trade statistics from current sources such as the UKFPA and regular reports in the forestry press.
The new members appointed have been put forward by the trade associations.
Several members of the new Group were previously on the Supply and Demand sub-committee thus providing valuable continuity.
The Terms of Reference of the Group and the names of members are posted on the timber industry section of the Forestry Commission website www.forestry.gov.uk\industry where meeting minutes will also appear.
The Group plans to have its first meeting in November.
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