Transcript Brexit Rural policy and funding

Confor Industry Update
Stirling
Thank you
Jamie Farquhar
Thursday 27th October 2016
Lobbying
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Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing
MSPs briefing = PQs on wood supplies
Mackinnon review
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Presumption in favour of forestry
that meets UKFS
• Timber Transport funding
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Brexit
• A thriving post-Brexit future for forestry and
timber
– How to ensure planting in the short, medium and
long-term
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– The future shape of rural policy and funding
– Legislation and better regulation
– Timber standards, trade and migrant labour
– Plant health
Brexit
• New planting and restocking
– Simplify the application process & reduce lead-in
times by cutting administration
– Move towards aThank
presumption
you in favour of new
planting
– Consider innovative ways to encourage more tree
planting, e.g. linking woodland creation to house
building
Brexit
• Rural policy and funding
– Develop an integrated rural land management
policy
– Simplify rural support
mechanisms
to focus on
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you
outcomes of land management
– Use accepted measurement and valuation
methods to support transparent decision making
Brexit
• Environmental legislation
– Carry out risk-based revision of Environmental
Impact Assessment thresholds
– Make interpretation
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implementation of
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regulations consistent across all rural industries
– Review EU Environmental Directives and their
impact on sawmills & timber processors
Brexit
• Timber standards, trade regulations and
migrant labour
– Revise the Construction Products Regulation
– Ensure a post-Brexit immigration system
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you
recognizes the need for seasonal labour &
temporary employment of foreign nationals
– Adopt a timber-first policy in procurement
contracts, with a preference for domestic
production
Brexit
• Plant health
– Phytosanitory certificates should be required for
all imported material
– Restrict importation
of firewood
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you
– Achieve consistent levels of new planting to
enable nurseries to plan effectively
Forestry Grant Scheme
• 600 applications approved to date
• 4,400 ha new woodland creation and
6,500 restock Thank you
• Further 4,000 ha NWC being worked on
• 12,000 ha NWC in pipeline
Tree Canopy report (NFI)
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2006 – 15 for Britain
90 pages, 27 tables & 18 figures
Complicated!
Can’t assess whether
woodland
is actually until 10 yrs old
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you
Significant area presently “in transition”
36k on Scotland’s NFE
• 8.2% of the conifer woodland = 1 in 12 Ha
Update on wood fibre supply and demand report
• 2013 – 2035 comparison of demand from 140 UK production
plants vs. 50-year biological wood fibre availability
• Supply /demand very squeezed in some regions
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you
• Sawlogs could be used in normal SRW markets
• How to maximise supplies from the existing resource
• Thinnings?
• Short rotation forestry?
Diary dates
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3 November
28/29 Nov
8 March
15 March
22 March
Scotsman conference
Woodheat conference
North-east SFTT meeting
South
SFTT meeting
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you
Central SFTT meeting
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