Art. 20
Reporting and Public Disclosure
In vigore dal 16 nov 2009
Article 20
Reporting and Public Disclosure
1. The Parties will ensure that the workings of the JMRM are as transparent as possible and that reports and aide memoires arising out of missions are jointly prepared and distributed to the Parties and made public.
2. The JMRM shall conduct regular joint missions to review the effectiveness of the Agreement as well as its impact based on the information available. It shall record the efforts Ghana has made to be transparent by, inter alia, making publicly available information about harvest rights, areas designated for harvesting, harvesting schedules, timber rights fees, and harvest related payments, and information on social responsibility agreements and crop damage compensation awards.
3. On the basis of information from the Parties, the JMRM shall make public a yearly report. The report should include, inter alia, details on:
(a)
the quantities of timber products exported to the Community under the FLEGT licensing scheme, according to the relevant HS headings;
(b)
the number of FLEGT licences issued by Ghana;
(c)
progress in the achievement of the objectives and the time-bound actions in the Agreement and matters relating to the implementation of the Agreement;
(d)
actions to prevent illegally-produced timber products being exported to non-Community markets or traded on the domestic market;
(e)
actions taken to prevent imports of illegally-produced timber products and maintain the integrity of the FLEGT licensing Scheme;
(f)
quantities of timber products imported to the Community under the FLEGT licensing scheme, according to the relevant HS headings and EU Member State in which importation into the Community took place;
(g)
number of FLEGT licences received by the Community;
(h)
number of cases and quantities of timber products involved where Article 9(1) has been applied.
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