Galiforestry Will analyse the forestry certification in Galicia

The II Forestry Monograph International for the South of Europe, Galiforestry 2012, which will celebrate of the 28 to 30 June in the mountain and installations of the Centre of Learning and Experimentation Agroforestryal of Sergude (Boqueixón), will analyse the forestry certification in Galicia through the two existent systems to do it, which promote a responsible management, sustainable and viable of the mountains. It will be in a day in which it will participate a ten of experts during two days and that it will be inaugurated the Thursday by the secretary xeral do Half Rural and do Mountain, Tomás Fernández-Couto Juanas, by means of a presentation centred in the bets of future from the Xunta de Galicia in matter of forestry certification

In the block that will take place the Thursday will tackle the certification FSC, presenting a European project pioneer in forestry certification to companies and contractors, the CeFCo Proyect. Leticia Calvo and Pablo Gómez, of the company NEPCon, will give to know his advantages, between which will stand out the simplification that supposes for the forestry owners of face to achieve the forestry certification FSC, since it deletes paperwork if the companies of aprovechamiento and forestry services with which work already have the certification. Likewise, they will give to know the results of the project in Galicia and Asturias, being Francisco Álvarez, of Cerna Engineering and Environingingmental Quality consultancy, the attendant to do it.

The presentation of this project will be preceded of an introductory report in which Marcos Estévez, of FSC Spain, will speak of this system of certification that promotes a management of the environingingmentally responsible mountains, socially beneficial and economically viable. It will inform in addition to the current data of forestry certification and chain of custiodia in the world, in Spain and in Galicia. This block will close with a round table on ‘Certification FSC of Groups of forestry management, a real solution for productive mountains with properties of small surfaces', which will be driven by Gonzalo Anguita, executive director of FSC Spain.

Already the Friday, the day will centre in the certification PEFC, a no governmental entity and non-profit whose aim is to ensure that the forestrys are managed of responsible form and that proprietary and companies of the forestry sector bet by the sustainability.

Will begin with a reminder of the bets of future of the Xunta de Galicia with regard to the certification. To continuation will carry out the report ‘Develop Forestry Sustainable 2013', to charge of Arantza Pérez Oleaga, of PEFC Spain. This second block will finish of hands of Antonio of María Angulo, president of PEFC Galicia, and of Verónica Rodríguez, of the Entidade Galician Applicant of Regional Forestry Certification PEFC, those who will speak of ‘regional Certification, the solution of the small owner, 15.000 has'.