TIME-TABLE FOR THE FOLLOW-UP OF THE HELSINKI CONFERENCE,
August 1994 - June 1995
- August 11, 1994
- August 15 Letter informing National Coordinators of coming Questionnaire
- August 29-30, Helsinki
- -"di Punto" Seminar of the Scientific Advisory Group
- - Examine the format for reporting on the Helsinki Process
- - Review of a set of questionnares to be delivered to the signatories
and observers attached with explanatory notes
- - Defining and elaborating terms to be used in the follow-up of the
Helsinki Resolutions
- September 7-10, Olympia, USA
- - Working Group on Boreal and Temperate Forests
- - Criteria and indicators for sustainable forestry
- September 15-16, Lisbon
- - General Coordinating Committee of the Ministerial Conferenc
- - Approval of the criteria and indicators to be used in reporting
and adoption of the draft set of Questionnaires
- September 19-21, Roma
- FAO/Executive Committee
- October 10-14, Geneva
- ECE Timber Committee, 52nd Session
- - Reporting by the Liaison Unit on the implementation of the
Helsinki Resolutions and presentation of the future action plan
on the follow-up
- - The Timber Committee and its working parties will be
requested to submit a progress report on the implementation of
the Strasbourg and Helsinki Resolutions
- October 10-14, Ottawa, Canada
- Intergovernmental Working Group on Global Forests,
Malaysian-Canadian Initiative
- Working Group on Boreal and Temperate Forests
- Follow-up to Kuala Lumpur Meeting
- Criteria and indicators
- October 20
- Deadline for returning the replies to the Questionnaire to the Liaison Unit
- November 6-16 / November 17-18, Jokohama,Japan
- ITTO, XVII Session of the ITTC Working Group on Boreal and Temperate Forests
- Criteria and Indicators
- November 28-29, Brussels
- Pan-European Round Table Meeting
- - Overview on the applicability of the agreed European
criteria and most suitable quantitative indicators as well
as the descriptive indicators for sustainable forest
management which have been used in the reporting process
based on the experiences of the national level
implementation
- - Examine additional quantitative
indicators for sustainable forest management
- - Outline a common approach and objectives for future
preparation on the subject area, e.g., the Turkey
meeting in January 1995
- December, Vienna
- Meeting of the Secretaries of State of the Ministries of
Agriculture and Forestry of Portugal, Finland and Austria
- - Adoption of the outlines for the First Interim Follow-up Report
- - Necessary decisions on the Third European Ministerial
Conference to be held in Lisbon
- December 10-16, Indonesia
- Meeting on Sustainable Management, organized by Keystone / CIFOR
- A review process on the implementation of the follow-up to UNCED
in the light of the progress made in defining and developing
criteria for the Sustainable Management of Forests
- January 16
- Report on the implementation of the Helsinki Resolutions mailed
to National Coordinators for comments
- January 23-24, Antalia, Turkey
- January 25-29
- The Second Expert Level Follow-up Meeting of the Second
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe
- FAO/European Forestry Commission
- - Reporting and discussion on the progress made with special
emphasis on applicability of the agreed European criteria and
indicators for sustainable forest management (national and
international coordinators)
- - Elaboration of the draft pan-European follow-up report for the
1995 meeting of the CSD in April 1995, based on reporting and
colection of information through international and national
coordinators
- - Discussion and supplementation of the list of most suitable
indicators on sustainable forest management
- - Elaboration of the plans for the Third European Ministerial
Conference to be held in Lisbon
- - Reporting by the Liaison Unit on the implementation of the
Helsinki Resolutions and presentation of the future action plan
on the follow-up
- - European Forestry Commission and its working parties will be
requested to submit a progress report on the implementation of
the Strasbourg and Helsinki Resolutions
- February 13
- Summary of the Report on the Follow-up of the Helsinki Resolutions
- February 27-March 3, New York
- Inter-Sessional Working Group of UNCSD for "Land, Desertification, Forests and Biodiversity"
- Summary Report on the progress made in the implementation of the Helsinki Resolutions
- February 20
- Report on the Follow-up of the Helsinki Resolutions printed
- March 13-17, Rome
- FAO, COFO High Level Global Meeting
- Reporting by the Liaison Unit on the implementation of the
Helsinki Resolutions and presentation of the future action plan
on the follow-up
- April 18-28, New York
- Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), forests
- - Presentation of the pan-European Follow- up Report on the
progress made in the implementation of the Helsinki Resolutions
- - Discussions on global forest issues and consideration of
global implications on defining criteria and indicators for
sustainable forest management and conservation of biodiversity
- June, Poland
- General Coordinating Committee of the Ministerial Conference