ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and FAO European Forestry Commission

70 years working together in the service of forests and people

ECE/TIM/DP/67

UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION

Sales No.: E.17.II.E.21ISBN: 978-92-1-117142-6

e-ISBN: 978-92-1-362800-3

ISSN: 1020-7228

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The ECE Timber Committee and the FAO European Forestry Commission

emerged from the International Timber Conference held in 1947 as the key

elements of the United Nations tasked with working on matters related to

the forest sector in Europe.

During their first 70 years of joint activity, the Committee and the Commis-

sion have contributed to post war reconstruction, to the expansion of the

forest sector, to meeting the major challenges of the sector and to promot-

ing and monitoring sustainable forest management.

This paper chronicles the history of the Committee and the Commission’s

work, in the context of the 2017 celebrations of the 70th anniversary of ECE

and to mark the 70th anniversary of the fruitful cooperation of ECE and FAO

on forests in the region.

ISBN 978-92-1-117142-6

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