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Opportunities and barriers to the use of timber in construction in England.
Guidance for businesses trading in timber and timber-related products.
Find out about the Woods into Management – Timber in Construction Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
TPP policy documents, category A guidance and checklist and category B guidance.
Comply with the TPP and check documentary evidence to show that timber is legal and sustainable: for government procurers and suppliers.
Central Point of Expertise of Timber (CPET's) newsletters contain guidance, news items and helpful information on timber and woodfuel.
You or your appointed import agent must complete a notice of landing form so you can arrange an inspection of your imported timber, if necessary.
CPET publications and documents for sustainable timber procurement, palm oil and woodfuel
Information about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, including how to report sightings.
Collection of plant health guidance and forms for trading in wood, wood products, firewood, bark, dunnage or wood packaging.
Sets out the definition of ‘legal’ and ‘sustainable’ under the UK government Timber Procurement Policy.
Review of the Timber and Timber Products (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2013 after 5 years.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Information about authorised processors in relation to the handling of material affected by Ips typographus or Phytophthora pluvialis.
Find out about the Woods into Management Routes to Market for Ash Timber Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help restore woodlands suffering from ash dieback.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
How to demonstrate that woodfuel supplied for Renewables Obligations and Renewable Heat Incentive is from legal and sustainable sources.
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