Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan

The mid-term evaluation of the EU Forest Action Plan was presented at the 112^th meeting of the Standing Forestry Commission (11-12 December 2009). The evaluation report has recently been made available on the DG Agriculture web-site. The study contains both an inventory of the implementation of the 18 Key Actions of the EU Forest Action Plan and an evaluation of its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency. It contains recommendations for the EU Forest Action Plan in the period until 2011.

This study, financed by the European Commission, was undertaken by the European Forest Institute in cooperation with the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, the Centre Tecnologic Forestal De Catalunya in Solsona, and the University of Hamburg, Institute for World Forestry.

The conclusions, recommendations and opinions presented in this report reflect the opinion of the consultants and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Commission.

More information is here available... [7]

The report can be downloaded here... [8]