Created by FOREST EUROPE Liaison Unit Madrid

1. FOREST EUROPE/EFI/METLA
Side Event:
“20 years of SFM in the panEuropean region”
Shaping a Future where Forests
Contribute to a Sustainable World
Edurne Lacalle
FOREST EUROPE
EFW Side event
12 December 2013

2. FOREST EUROPE
Who we are
FOREST EUROPE is the pan-European policy process for
sustainable management of the continent’s forests.
FOREST EUROPE, founded in 1990, develops common strategies on
how to protect and sustainably manage forests.
FOREST EUROPE 46 signatory countries plus the European
Union, observer countries and international organizations cooperate
for the common good of the continent’s forests.

3. FOREST EUROPE
Leading role in Europe
FOREST EUROPE provides the policy-making framework for
ministers responsible for the continent forests to help foster
forest growth and management.
Thanks to SFM total forest area in Europe has increased
over the past two decades and loss of biodiversity has slowed
down.

4. FOREST EUROPE
HELSINKI 1993
VIENNA 2003
Milestones
OSLO 2011
MADRID
STRASBOURG 1990
LISBON 1998 WARSAW 2007

5. FOREST EUROPE
Contributions
Definition of SFM (Helsinki 1993):
Sustainable forest management aims to ensure that the goods
and services derived from the forest meet present day needs at
the same time secure their continued availability and contribution
to long-term development.

6. FOREST EUROPE
Contributions
•Commitments on ecological, economical and sociocultural aspects of SFM
•SFM Guidelines, Criteria and Indicators
•National Forest Programmes Guidelines
•Periodic assessment and reporting: State of Europe’s
Forests

7. FOREST EUROPE
Guidelines
To achieve and implement SFM:
•“General guidelines for sustainable forest management”
(Helsinki in 1993, H1)
•“General guidelines for conservation of biological diversity of
forests in Europe” (Helsinki in 1993, H2) Elaborated as general
political guiding principles .
•“Pan-European Operational Guidelines for Sustainable Forest
Management” (Lisbon 1998 ) Translating international
commitments to SFM practices and planning.
•“Pan-European Guidelines for Afforestation and Reforestation”
•2008) . Special focus on the provisions of the UNFCCC.

8. FOREST EUROPE
Criteria & Indicators
Six criteria to safeguard the ecological, economic and sociocultural functions of forest:
1. To maintain and enhance forest resources and their
contribution to global carbon cycles;
2. To maintain forest ecosystems’ health and vitality;
3. To maintain and encourage the productive functions of
forests (wood and non-wood);
4. To maintain, protect and enhance the biological diversity in
forest ecosystems;
5. To maintain, conserve and enhance the protective functions
of forest (notably soil and water);
6. To maintain the other socio-economic functions and
conditions.

9. FOREST EUROPE
Criteria & Indicators
Improved C&I set from Vienna 2002
The fulfilment of the criteria can be evaluated through a set of
35 quantitative indicators.
Besides these criteria the status and changes in policies,
institutions and instruments related to sustainable forest
management is assessed through a set of 17 qualitative
indicators.

10. FOREST EUROPE
Assessment
•At national level : SFM reporting and monitoring are encouraged
using pan-European C&I
•At regional level: Up-to date information on European forests
and SFM is regularly presented and reported
The third edition was State of Europe’s Forests 2011.
We are already working on the next edition.

11. FOREST EUROPE
Objectives
and key issues
Following Oslo Conference 2011:
• Oslo Decision European Forests 2020
• Oslo Ministerial Mandate for Negotiating a Legally Binding
Agreement on Forests in Europe

12. FOREST EUROPE
Work Programme
FOREST EUROPE has developed a Work Programme for the
period until the Madrid Ministerial Conference:
1- Sustainable Forest Management and tools
2- Monitoring and reporting
3- Illegal logging and related trade
4- Valuation of ecosystem services
5- Social Issues and Green Economy
6- Servicing INC-Forests
7- Communication activities
8- International activities

13. FOREST EUROPE
Work Programme
1- Further development Sustainable Forest Management and tools
Consolidate the pan-European policies and tools for sustainable
forest management, taking into account biodiversity and climate
change commitments, the role of forests owners, emerging threats
and other pressures on forest resources.

14. FOREST EUROPE
Work Programme
1- Further development Sustainable Forest Management and tools
1.1 State of the art
FOREST EUROPE and EFI are working on the “State of the art” of
the Implementation of former decisions on SUSTAINABLE FOREST
MANAGEMENT in monitoring and reporting

15. Thank you for
your attention
Shaping a Future where Forests
Contribute to a Sustainable World