A Bill to make it illegal in the United Kingdom for a person or company to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire or purchase timber or timber products illegally taken, harvested, possessed, transported, sold or exported from their country of origin; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
1 May 2012
The Illegally Logged Timber Bill would make it illegal in the UK to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire or purchase timber or timber products that were illegally taken from their country of origin. It aims to curb illegal logging and associated harm by extending criminal liability to activities in the UK’s timber trade, with enforcement details to be set out in the bill. The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons.
The bill is at the second reading stage in the Commons; it will progress through further stages (committee, report, third reading) before going to the Lords.
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