Italy must do more to ban illegal wood

(ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy must do more to ban illegally logged wood, Greenpeace environmentalist group said Friday. "According to the European Commission, Italy is among the least engaged in applying the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) to stop the circulation of illegally logged wood," said Greenpeace Italy Executive Director Giuseppe Onufrio.
    The EUTR went into effect in March 2013, and Italy has yet to take steps to implement it, he said. This not only harms timber-exporting countries but penalizes Italian companies that work lawfully, he said.
    Illegal logging has severe economic, environmental and social impacts on some of the world's most valuable remaining forests and the communities that rely on them, according to the European Commission.