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Feedback form for New Zealand's Legal Harvest Assurance System - Issues paper one: the legal harvest assurance framework

You may use this form to provide your feedback on the core concepts of legal harvest assurance under the Forest Act 1949. These include:

  • identifying the laws that are relevant to deciding if timber or timber products have been legally harvested;
  • which timber products people should need to register to trade for legal harvest assurance;
  • thresholds for people needing to register for legal harvest assurance;
  • the requirements of due diligence systems; and
  • exporter requirements.

Using this form is optional.

The questions in this form are grouped by topic. You can provide feedback just on the topics relevant to you, or on the full set of questions.

The questions and page numbers referenced relate to the New Zealand’s Legal Harvest Assurance System: Issues paper one: the legal harvest assurance framework document.

If you prefer to provide your feedback in hard copy, you can mail it to:

Issues paper one: the legal harvest assurance framework
Forest Market Assurance Programme
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140

All feedback must be received by the Ministry for Primary Industries by 5:00pm on 16 May 2024.

Find out more about the Issues paper one, and download the paper, from the MPI website:

Legal harvest assurance system for timber - MPI website

Feedback is public information

Please note your feedback is public information. Feedback may be the subject of requests for information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA). Under the OIA, information is to be made available to requesters unless there are sufficient grounds for withholding it. The grounds for withholding information are outlined in the OIA.

If you are providing feedback on this issues paper, you may wish to indicate any grounds for withholding information contained in your feedback. Reasons for withholding information could include commercial sensitivity or privacy. The Ministry for Primary Industries will consider such grounds when deciding whether or not to release information.

Any decision to withhold information requested under the OIA may be reviewed by the Ombudsman. For more information, please visit http://www. ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources-and-publications/ guides/official-information-legislation-guides.


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