Members

Our members represent 14 organisations in 10 European countries. Together we aim to to build their capacities in training and education of private forest owners, supporting the development of their associations, inventorying and marking of private forests, preparation of forest management plans for private forests, enforcement of forest legislation in private forests, providing subsidies for more sustainable forest management, organizing sale of wood from private forests, capacity building for private forestry, etc.

Centre national de la propriété forestière
National Forest Ownership Centre (CNPF), France
Established in 2003, CNPF contributes to the development of French forests through advisory and coordination activities, research, training and knowledge dissemination. Its main objectives are to to clarify the public forest policies bringing all the forest development actions related to privately owned forests under a single national body, while maintaining decentralisation at regional level; to improve the consistency of the forest development measures in the areas of applied research, training for forest owners and forest micro-economics; to create closer links between the national technical experts and the extension agents in contact with the forest owners and to optimise the use of public funds.

Forest Advisory Service Centre, LRATC, Latvia
Forest Advisory Service Center provides information, consultation and training to private forest owners and the society as a whole on forest management issues, as well as offers forest management services to forest owners. Promotes and supports forest owners to obtain EU subsidies for forestry, as well as non-formal education for school children and families about the forest. Informs and trains hunters, hunters’ club leaders and people who want to become hunters.

Forestry Commission, UK
The Forestry Commission is the UK government department responsible for protecting, expanding and promoting the sustainable management of woodlands, while increasing their value to society and the environment. It works closely with two agencies:
1. Forestry England manages the Public Forest Estate, which for over 100 years, we have been growing, shaping and caring for over 1,500 of the nation’s forests for the benefit and enjoyment of all, for this generation and the next. They care for more land and trees than any other organisation in England. Shaping landscapes for people, wildlife and timber. We’ve built over 1,800 miles of walking, running and cycling trails, supplying England’s largest amount of sustainably-sourced timber, and conserve the homes of thousands of plants and animals.
2. Forest Research, which is Great Britain’s principal organisation for forestry and tree-related research and is internationally renowned for the provision of evidence and scientific services in support of sustainable forestry.

Mas Abogados
MAS is a SME founded in 1992 in the Basque Country (Spain) and comprises a team of lawyers specialized in special administrative law, and focused in Environment and Urban Planning. Their aim is to add solutions to environmental and urban problems, sometimes designing specific policies or/and working with the stakeholders involved. Environmental legal-practice comprises the environmental matters that affect the operations from forest, agriculture, construction, energy, mining, manufacturing, and economic activities. Our experience includes a large range of environmental law issues as land claims, mining rights, environmental compliance, regulation, waste and hazardous emissions and legal controls. They are actively involved in European projects in H2020, and Erasmus.

Skogsstyrelsen
Swedish Forest Agency
The Swedish Forest Agency is the national authority in charge of forest-related issues. Its main function is to promote the kind of management of Sweden’s forests that enables the objectives of forest policy to be attained.
The forest policy places equal emphasis on two main objectives: production goals and environmental goals. As the administrative body in charge of implementing the forest policy, it cooperates with representatives from the forest industries and environmental sector towards the goals of economically and ecologically sustainable forestry.