ece committee on forests and the forest industry and fao
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ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and FAO European Forestry Commission
70 years working together in the service of forests and people
ECE/TIM/DP/67
UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION
Sales No.: E.17.II.E.21ISBN: 978-92-1-117142-6
e-ISBN: 978-92-1-362800-3
ISSN: 1020-7228
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Printing at United Nations, Geneva – 1726838 (E) – September 2017 – 1,541 – ECE/TIM/DP/67
The ECE Timber Committee and the FAO European Forestry Commission
emerged from the International Timber Conference held in 1947 as the key
elements of the United Nations tasked with working on matters related to
the forest sector in Europe.
During their first 70 years of joint activity, the Committee and the Commis-
sion have contributed to post war reconstruction, to the expansion of the
forest sector, to meeting the major challenges of the sector and to promot-
ing and monitoring sustainable forest management.
This paper chronicles the history of the Committee and the Commission’s
work, in the context of the 2017 celebrations of the 70th anniversary of ECE
and to mark the 70th anniversary of the fruitful cooperation of ECE and FAO
on forests in the region.
ISBN 978-92-1-117142-6
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