KUALA LUMPUR: The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will continue to hold negotiations with the European Union (EU) to implement the voluntary partnership bilateral agreement (VPA) on timber products in the move to combat illegal logging and trade in illegal timber.
Its minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said the VPA, an action plan proposed by the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade, will set out the commitments and measures of both the producer and buyer countries to tackle illegal logging and associated trade.