Entries by Tanika Jones

Guyana – EU FLEGT VPA Successfully Tabled in Parliament

Minister of Natural Resources, Hon. Vickram Bharrat, successfully tabled in the National Assembly, on Monday, April 24, the Guyana-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement or VPA. This will pave the way for greater cooperation and increase market access and market share with the European Union (EU). This agreement was initialled […]

Council adopts agreement with Guyana to tackle illegal logging

The Council has adopted an agreement to improve forest governance and help combat illegal logging in Guyana. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which the EU and Guyana signed in Montreal on 15 December 2022, aims to strengthen law enforcement in the forestry sector and ensure that timber products exported to the EU have been legally produced. […]

COP 15: the EU and Guyana sign an agreement on sustainable trade of legal timber

Today at COP 15 in Montreal, Canada, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius, and Guyana Minister of Natural Resources, Hon. Vickram Bharrat M.P., signed a legally binding trade agreement to promote sustainable trade of legal timber to the European Union (EU). Mr. Jan Dusík, Deputy Minister of the Environment of the […]

Guyana and EU join forces to meet highest international standards on export of legal timber

On 27 October 2022, representatives of Guyana and the European Union met to discuss the implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The Agreement will help improve forest governance and sustainable forestry, and verify the trade in legal timber. According to René Van Nes, Ambassador of the […]

Second Meeting of the Pre-Joint Monitoring and Review Committee

The Pre-Joint Monitoring and Review Committee (Pre-JMRC) was convened on 27 October 2022 in Georgetown, Guyana. This second meeting of the Pre-JMRC of the Guyana-EU FLEGT VPA, was chaired by the Hon. Vickram Bharrat, Minister of Natural Resources of Guyana, and the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Guyana, Rene van Nes represented by […]

First Meeting of the Pre-Joint Monitoring and Review Committee

The Pre-JMRC was convened on 10 March 2022 in Georgetown, Guyana. This first meeting of the Pre-JMRC of the Guyana-EU FLEGT VPA was chaired by the Hon. Vickram Bharrat, Minister of Natural Resources of Guyana, and the Ambassador of the European Union to Guyana, Fernando Ponz Cantó. A list of participants is presented in Annex […]

Fourth Guyana – European Union Negotiation Session on the FLEGT VPA

The fourth Guyana – European Union negotiation session on the FLEGT-VPA was held on 10 March, 2016 in Georgetown, Guyana. 2. The session was chaired by Ms Veronique Lorenzo, Head of Unit (Environment, Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Wildlife), Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development – European Commission (EC), on behalf of the European Union (EU) […]

Third Guyana – European Union Negotiation Session on the FLEGT VPA

 The third Guyana – European Union negotiation session on the FLEGT VPA was held on 16 April 2015 in Georgetown, Guyana. The session was chaired by Dr. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer, Head of Unit (Climate change, Environment, Natural Resources), Directorate General Development and Cooperation -EuropeAid, European Commission (EC), on behalf of the European Union and by Mr […]