The need to ensure consistency within the legal harvest assurance scheme (lhas) and due diligence systems (dds) between domestic produced and imported wood products. Some businesses will need to register with the ministry for primary industries (mpi). The new system will be in force by 1 august 2027.
Download regulatory impact statement bringing the initial legal harvest assurance system into effect (1.2mb, pdf) email copy link last updated: Overall, the proposed legal harvest assurance framework is a significant new compliance regime for the forest industry that will result in increased costs and obligations. The objective of the forests (legal harvest assurance) amendment bill (the bill) is to establish a legal harvest system to assist in combatting global trade in illegally harvested timber, to.
This ensures there is a person accountable for due. The ministry for primary industries (mpi) is working to implement new legal harvest assurance laws. Given the forest industry’s experience with mpi building. The government is delivering on its commitment to combat trade in illegally harvested timber, with consultation starting today on operational details to implement new.
Legal harvest assurance focuses on the conduct of people trading in regulated timber and specified timber products. New zealand’s forestry legal harvest assurance system will come into force by 1 august 2027.