The V-Legal documents are issued by the Timber Legality Verification Agency (LVLK) and form part of its SVLK legality verification system.

The new legality proof replaces Indonesia’s previous BRIK system and has been developed in response to increasingly rigorous anti-illegal timber legislation in key markets, including the US’s Lacey Act, the upcoming EU Timber Regulation and Australian Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill, and Japan’s Goho Wood system.

The trial shipments comprise wood from 17 registered Indonesian exporters and will continue into November out of four major ports.

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