The Forest Stewardship Council provides certification for the forestry industry and its products.
Director of strategy Darryl Dixon said the licensing authority had been trialing a "light touch" inspection regime for the past year in the forestry industry - a sector considered low risk.
In its place, a new independent panel will be established to consider forestry policy in England, comprised of representatives from key environment organisations and the forestry industry, and will report back in the autumn.
The forestry industry, which accounts for around 8% of exports and is centred in the worst-hit regions, may be shut down for at least a month because of damage to factories and to transport links, says Charles Kimber of Arauco, a big forestry firm.
Output of goods includes such branches as industry, agriculture, forestry, construction, other goods-producing branches.
Even as the campaign ran on, the government announced a deal with the industry committing both to aim for almost 40, 000 new forestry-based jobs by 2001.
He is now a consultant with a group, mainly industry-financed, that calls for a balance between the needs of forestry and the environment.
This will be a huge boon to the island's tourism industry, which employs 24% of the work force (fishing and forestry are also big here).
Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.
The greening of industry is creating a constellation of new careers, and they're not your everyday forestry professions.
Its high-technology industry is still small, accounting for about 3% of the province's output, compared with forestry's 20%.
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