Search Results: 'Defra'

Home-grown timber on agenda at EUTR seminar
19 December, 2012
Home-grown timber buyers and growers can find out what the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) will mean for them at a London seminar on January 24.

Ash to ashes
17 December, 2012
Ash dieback has been a wake-up call to the government to take plant health seriously, says David Sulman, UKFPA executive director

Ash to ashes
17 December, 2012
Ash dieback has been a wake-up call to the government to take plant health seriously, says David Sulman, UKFPA executive director

Time to deliver
10 December, 2012
As Iain McIlwee completes his first full year as chief executive of the British Woodworking Federation, he gives his thoughts on the joinery industry’s most urgent demands on government for the year ahead

Seeing the wood from the trees
29 November, 2012
It was the government’s worst nightmare. Dealing with obstreperous opponents in the Commons and the slings and arrows of prime minister’s questions was one thing. Facing the antagonism of the mass ranks of steely-eyed middle England was something else entirely. This was opposition of a different magnitude – and it was, of course, what ministers faced over their idea to sell off the Forestry Commission’s English woodlands.

At the crossroads
29 November, 2012
As Confor’s recent conference highlighted, 2012 was a landmark year for England’s forests and all eyes are on Defra as we await its response to the Independent Panel on Forestry. Sally Spencer reports

More ash tree disease sites discovered in Wales
20 November, 2012
Chalara ash dieback disease has been identified at five newly-planted sites in Wales.

Confor stages landmark conference
31 October, 2012
This is a really exciting time for forestry and for those involved in the sector, according to forestry minister David Heath, in a video message to delegates of Confor’s conference 'A landmark year for English forestry?' at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in London on October 25.

Forestry minister for Confor event
13 October, 2012
New forestry minister David Heath is to join Defra secretary Owen Patterson at Confor’s London conference later this month.

New management for government timber procurement agency
05 October, 2012
The management of the government’s flagship Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) has changed hands from Proforest to Efeca.

Confor lobbies government to make change for better
29 September, 2012
Timber offers environmental and economic benefits, and the government needs to know, says Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall

Protection technology helps make more of timber
17 September, 2012
Steve Young, director of the Wood Protection Association, outlines latest developments in the wood protection sector

Plant health and the forest estate
20 August, 2012
Plant health and biosecurity continue to be a serious concern for the UK forest products sector.

Duly diligent
04 August, 2012
The latest in a series of TTF workshops on the forthcoming EUTR brought members up to speed on the new anti-illegal timber legislation. Sally Spencer reports

Minister visits BSW’s Fort William mill
27 July, 2012
Defra cabinet secretary Richard Lochhead has visited BSW’s Fort William sawmill to mark the next stage of its five-year £37m investment programme.

TTF workshop brings trade up to speed on EUTR
19 July, 2012
The UK is well placed to comply with the forthcoming EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), according to Stephen Lowe from Defra’s International Forestry Team – but there is still room for further clarity and guidance on certain aspects of its implementation.

Defra appoints EUTR policing body
05 July, 2012
The National Measurement Office (NMO) has been appointed as the body to police the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) in the UK.

UK minister impressed by forest products sector
20 June, 2012
UK government minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach has told the UK Forest Products Association (UKFPA) members that he was “very impressed” by the UK forestry and forest products sector.

Commons hearing for UK forestry
14 May, 2012

New England Forestry Commission in place
03 April, 2012