The European State Forest Association
The European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR) represents state forest companies, enterprises and agencies that have sustainable forest management (SFM) and sustainable wood production as major concerns.
The European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR) represents state forest companies, enterprises and agencies that have sustainable forest management (SFM) and sustainable wood production as major concerns.
The 2nd International Stakeholders and Donors Conference took place on 26-27 March 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. The event was hosted by the Czech Ministry of Agriculture of the Government and the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science of the Czech University, and was facilitated by FAO Ukraine. More than 60 participants from European countries, international organizations and stakeholders participated in the event in person and online. The main objective is to continue dialogue with partne...
This Wednesday, 24 April, the Parliament has voted on the files for Plant and Forest Reproductive Material (PRM & FRM). The latter has direct impact on the forest sector and EUSTAFOR has actively contributed to the legislative process with input. The report has now been adopted as its first reading position with a large majority. The accepted position proposes cooperation of Member States to secure high quality forest reproductive material, with a labeling system in place to provide trans...
EUSTAFOR is delighted to announce our new associate Ann-Mari Kuparinen from Metsähallitus, Finnish State Forests. She joined our team in the beginning of April and will work in Forestry House until February 2025. Ann-Mari graduated with MSc of Agriculture & Forestry from Joensuu University. Before that she obtained a BSc of Forestry in Rovaniemi Polytechnic. Ann-Mari has worked for Metsähallitus, the Finnish State Forest Organization, for the last 14 years, during which she has gained e...
This week the New European Bauhaus Festival takes place in Brussels, with satellite event all over Europe. This event was organized to promote the New European Bauhaus initiative, which aims at accelerating the transformation of various economic sectors such as construction and textiles in order to provide access to all citizens to goods that are circular and less carbon intensive. An important element of this is of course the use of forest material as the basis of many products. Therefore, E...
