The joint session of the seventy-fifth session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and the thirty-ninth session of the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC) agreed on the Warsaw Integrated Programme of Work (ECE/TIM/2017/2− FO:EFC/2017/2). To facilitate its implementation, the Committee and the Commission requested a specific list of activities, which should be approved on an annual basis by the Working Party and the Committee and the Commission (Annex I, para 4). “The final list of activities prepared every year should help member States and regional economic integration organizations to further prioritize the work of the secretariat. A related budget will be prepared and shared with the Joint Bureaux, member States and regional economic integration organizations after the approval of the list to understand the feasibility of activities and identify funding needs”.
This document provides a tentative list of ECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section activities and outputs for 2022 that contribute to the implementation of the future Integrated Programme of Work (2022-2025). The final list of and the implementation of the activities is subject to the decision by the seventy-ninth session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and the forty-first session of the FAO European Forestry Commission as well as the availability of funds and resources within the secretariat. The Joint Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management is invited to suggest revisions, take note of and approve the tentative list of proposed activities, with the understanding it will be refined closer to the end of 2021 to be consistent with final version of the new IPoW 2022-2025 . The refined list will be presented for approval to the joint session of the seventy-ninth session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and the forty-first session of the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC).