Holzindustrie Schweighofer supports EIA requirement for full transparency in the Romanian timber industry. Uniform solution for entire timber industry desirable.
“Like the EIA, we are in favour of maximum transparency. We are supporting the authorities in their many efforts to establish an appropriate system. Regardless of this, we are already playing a pioneering role on our own. That’s because Holzindustrie Schweighofer is working on a concept for tracking all deliveries by GPS with a data set in the background,” says Georg Erlacher from Holzindustrie Schweighofer. In 2015, Holzindustrie Schweighofer processed around one-tenth of the timber harvested in Romania. An effective and meaningful traceability system therefore naturally needs to be rolled out for all market participants. This is mainly an issue for legislators.
