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Timber legality assurance system (SVLK)
About SLVK
Bali Treasures has Timber Legality Assurance System (SVLK) serves to ensure timber products and raw materials obtained or derived from Indonesian sources that its origin and management meet the legal aspects. Timber is considered to be legal when its origin, logging permit, logging systems and procedures, freight, processing and trade can be proven to meet all applicable legal requirements. SVLK has been developed jointly by a number of parties (stakeholders). SVLK bears the standards, criteria, indicators, verifiers, verification methods and assessment norms that the stakeholders come to agree.
The Government of Indonesia implements the SVLK to ensure that all timber products traded in Indonesia have convincingly achieved legal status. With the SVLK, consumers abroad no longer need to doubt about the legality of timber from Indonesia. With the SVLK, farmers of community forest and indigenous forest are able to raise the bargaining power and no need to worry about the legality of their timber during transport. The furniture manufactures are sure of the legality of the resources of the raw material to make easier for them to convince the buyers abroad. Indonesia takes gradual steps in adopting the SVLK. This is the first step in ensuring certificate of legality before heading to the certified sustainable forest management (sustainability).
The SVLK enactment itself is to provide legal certainly for Indonesian timber products on the global market. This effort is expected to help improve the competitiveness of Indonesian timber products, reduce illegal logging and illegal trade. Moreover, the SVLK also implies a serious commitment and consistent effort to improve forest governance in Indonesia. The SVLK comprises improved principles of better governance, the representativeness of the parties in the development and monitoring system and transparency system. SVLK is an effort with soft approach to improve governance over the rampant illegal logging and timber trade.
SVLK complements the efforts of law enforcement (hard approach) that the Government has been adopted. Improvement through soft approach on administrative and logging management are improved with all parties and has credibility in its implementation. SVLK is also developed amidst the world trends in the illegal timber trade. Governments in some importer countries apply regulations to assure the legality of timber products on trade, including those from imports, in each country. For example, the Government of United State applies the Lacey Act, the European Union (EU) with the timber Regulation, Australia with the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act and Japan with Green Konyuho (Wood Goho).
The SVLK began into force in June 2009 when the Government of Indonesia issued the Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.38/Menhut-II/2009. It occurred when once the Minister of Forestry, MS Kaban, approved and adopted stakeholders proposal to become mandatory Standards and Guidelines for Performance Assessment of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and the Timber Legality Assurance (VLK). On its progress, the SVLK has been improved with the issuance of revised Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.38/Menhut-II/2009 as Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P68/Menhut-II/2011 and added revision by Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.45/Menhut-II/2012 also Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.42/Menhut-II/2013. Demands over timber legality are not a new issue. The SVLK presents as a mandatory system for ensuring the compliance of all regulations relating to the timber distribution and trade in Indonesia. Export permits for timber products require V-Legal Documents (Verified Legal). as also required by the Regulation of the Minister of Trade (Regulation) 64/2012.
Source of contents : http://silk.dephut.go.id/index.php/info/vsvlk/1
The Government of Indonesia implements the SVLK to ensure that all timber products traded in Indonesia have convincingly achieved legal status. With the SVLK, consumers abroad no longer need to doubt about the legality of timber from Indonesia. With the SVLK, farmers of community forest and indigenous forest are able to raise the bargaining power and no need to worry about the legality of their timber during transport. The furniture manufactures are sure of the legality of the resources of the raw material to make easier for them to convince the buyers abroad. Indonesia takes gradual steps in adopting the SVLK. This is the first step in ensuring certificate of legality before heading to the certified sustainable forest management (sustainability).
The SVLK enactment itself is to provide legal certainly for Indonesian timber products on the global market. This effort is expected to help improve the competitiveness of Indonesian timber products, reduce illegal logging and illegal trade. Moreover, the SVLK also implies a serious commitment and consistent effort to improve forest governance in Indonesia. The SVLK comprises improved principles of better governance, the representativeness of the parties in the development and monitoring system and transparency system. SVLK is an effort with soft approach to improve governance over the rampant illegal logging and timber trade.
SVLK complements the efforts of law enforcement (hard approach) that the Government has been adopted. Improvement through soft approach on administrative and logging management are improved with all parties and has credibility in its implementation. SVLK is also developed amidst the world trends in the illegal timber trade. Governments in some importer countries apply regulations to assure the legality of timber products on trade, including those from imports, in each country. For example, the Government of United State applies the Lacey Act, the European Union (EU) with the timber Regulation, Australia with the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act and Japan with Green Konyuho (Wood Goho).
The SVLK began into force in June 2009 when the Government of Indonesia issued the Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.38/Menhut-II/2009. It occurred when once the Minister of Forestry, MS Kaban, approved and adopted stakeholders proposal to become mandatory Standards and Guidelines for Performance Assessment of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and the Timber Legality Assurance (VLK). On its progress, the SVLK has been improved with the issuance of revised Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.38/Menhut-II/2009 as Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P68/Menhut-II/2011 and added revision by Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.45/Menhut-II/2012 also Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. P.42/Menhut-II/2013. Demands over timber legality are not a new issue. The SVLK presents as a mandatory system for ensuring the compliance of all regulations relating to the timber distribution and trade in Indonesia. Export permits for timber products require V-Legal Documents (Verified Legal). as also required by the Regulation of the Minister of Trade (Regulation) 64/2012.
Source of contents : http://silk.dephut.go.id/index.php/info/vsvlk/1
what is the v-legal logo?
The V-Legal Logo
The V-Legal logo is stamped on timber, timber products, or the packaging, stating that the timber and the timber products have compiled with the PHPL standards or VLK standards by proving the ownership of S-PHPL or S-LK.
The use of V-Legal logo is regulated in guides to the V-Legal usage.
What is the V-Legal Document?
License document of timber products for export applied for 48 HS Codes. The document is issued by the LVLK for every single, for ETPIK which has obtained S-LK or necessity to perform an inspection for ETPIK which has not obtained the S-LK. The V-Legal Document is valid for 4 months since its issuance.
What is Legal Timber?
Timber is legal when it complies with verification of its origin, permit, harvest, harvesting system and procedures, administration and transport documents, process, trading/transferring, all of which fulfill the existing regulations.
Source of contents : http://silk.dephut.go.id/index.php/info/vsvlk/3
The use of V-Legal logo is regulated in guides to the V-Legal usage.
What is the V-Legal Document?
License document of timber products for export applied for 48 HS Codes. The document is issued by the LVLK for every single, for ETPIK which has obtained S-LK or necessity to perform an inspection for ETPIK which has not obtained the S-LK. The V-Legal Document is valid for 4 months since its issuance.
What is Legal Timber?
Timber is legal when it complies with verification of its origin, permit, harvest, harvesting system and procedures, administration and transport documents, process, trading/transferring, all of which fulfill the existing regulations.
Source of contents : http://silk.dephut.go.id/index.php/info/vsvlk/3
why choose a bali treasures drums ?
The reasons why we choose Bali Treasures products:
- Bali Treasures Use legal timber from the source
- Timber production always controlled by Minister of Forestry
- Bali Treasures has valid and verifiable certification of legal wood products, which is has been already recognized in several countries
- So no need to worry when selling and using products from Bali Treasures
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