General considerations regarding the integrated informational system of tracking timber sumal in the actual context

• Author: Anca Elena Benta
• Position: Doctoral School of Law 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' Police Academy of Bucharest
• Pages: 19-25

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2016), pp. 26-33

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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE INTEGRATED

INFORMATIONAL SYSTEM OF TRACKING TIMBER– SUMAL IN THE ACTUAL

CONTEXT

A.E. BENŢA

Anca Elena Benţa

Doctoral School of Law

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Police Academy of Bucharest

*Correspondence: Anca Elena Benţa, Agora University of Oradea, 8 Piaţa Tineretului St.,

Oradea, Romania

E-mail: ancabenta@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

In order to fight the illegal deforestation, as well as to reduce the criminal facts in the

forestry field and the inappropriate forestry, it was constituted and implemented the

integrated informational system of tracking timber in real time, called SUMAL. This system

can provide information regarding the complete tracking of timber, from the moment of

harvesting it to the final processing or export.

KEY WORDS:ILLEGAL DEFORESTATIONS, TRANSPORTING TIMBER, SUMAL, THE

FORESTRY CODE.

As an essential component of the environment, the forest has an important role in

maintaining the ecological balance, not only across Europe, but also in the whole world. Thus,

an inappropriate forestry can have a series of negative consequences, both immediate and on a

long term. Here we take into account the fact that deforestations constitute the main cause of

the desert extension, while reducing the forest vegetation favors the greenhouse effect, the

global warming

1

and so on.

In the context of illegal land clearings, of illegal tree cutting and the attempts to limit

the negative consequences of these deeds, the European Union undertook a series of actions in

the forestry field. The most important are: “The European Union Forestry Strategy”

2

from

1998, that establishes the general action context for the sustainable development offorests,

“The EU Forestry Action Plan for 2007-2011”

3

from 2006 for applying the Strategy, and in

2013 was adopted “A New EU Strategy for Forests and the Forestry Field”proposing a

European frame of reference for the elaboration of regional politics impacting the forests

4

,

promoting the sustainable management of the forests as a means to protect the biodiversity, to

fight the desertification and react to the climate changes

5

. Thus the REDD+

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, FLEGT

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and the

1

Mircea Duţu –“Dreptul internaţional al mediului”(International Environmental Legilation), Editura

Economică, Bucureşti, 2004, p.419.

2

The Ministerial conference regarding the protection of the forests in Europe, Helsinki, 1993.

3

The Co mmunication o f the Committee from June 15th 2 006 regarding an EU ac tion plan for forests

/COM(2006) 302 final

4

Communication of the Committee from September 20, 2013 called “A New EU Strategy for forests and

forestry filed”/COM(2013)659 final

5

COM(2013)659 final.

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Reducing emissions from d eforestation and forest degradation (REDD; REDD + (or REDD-plus) refers to the"

emissions reduction caused by the deforestation and degradation of forests in the dev eloping countries, as well

as the role of preservation, lo ng term management of forests, conservation of forest carbon stock and increasing

the forest carbon stock being "+", in REDD +", according to the European Parliament Resolution from April

23rd2009 regarding the approach of the problems related to deforestations a nd degradation o f forests in order to

tackle climate changes and reduction of biodiversity (2010/C 184 E/08).

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The Regulation (CE) no.2173/2005 regarding the institution of a licenses regime FLEGT for importing timber

in the European Community.