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forest forms that used to be hastily filled in by truck drivers when stopped for inspection. However, there are bottlenecks that need to be resolved at the timber’s origin. São Paulo’s environmental police force is one third of the entire Brazilian force – of 6 thousand officers –, and it does not grow at the same pace as the crimes they are combating. “We do have a method for control, but we lack in capacity to implement it,” says Diniz. There is increasing commitment from those who buy timber at the end of the chain in São Paulo. “With increased control, there are fewer penalties issued, which shows that the market adapts to the rules and changes its behavior,” says Diniz. When the environmental police started working four years ago, “people did not know the law and regulations, let alone how to put them into practice”. The number of registered lumberyards in São Paulo – currently there are around 6 thousand of them – illustrates the increased commitment. In 2007, they were only half of that number and most operated illegally. “By competing for market share, they changed their practices and started looking for legal suppliers. The market adjusts itself naturally”. The state of São Paulo’s Native Wood Retailers Registry (Cadmadeira) was established by decree in 2008 and became a decisive step in changing the state of affairs. Registration is voluntary except for those who sell timber to the state and some municipalities for civil construction. Retailers must comply with four preconditions to have their registry approved: demonstrate a clean slate in terms of fines related to timber; register with the Federal Technical Registry run by Ibama; register with the São Paulo Commercial Committee; and to regularly operate the DOF. To stand out in the market, however, a retailer may apply for a best- -practice label. The State’s Environment Secretary issues the label – valid for a year – after evaluating the company’s operations. Inspectors check if it has the licenses to operate, if the timber is organized by type and species in its 101
102 patios, and if its stocks match the balance in the electronic registry. At the moment, 35 companies – half of the applicants – have received the label. Monitoring of the market by the government Out of approximately 2 thousand businesses that deal with timber in the state of São Paulo, 230 are registered with the Cadmadeira – from lumberyards to retailers and sawmills. There are also charcoal makers and building companies that stock forest products and byproducts – these cannot register with Cadmadeira, but as other businesses they are monitored by the DOF. “At first timber companies resisted regulation,” says environmental engineer Carlos Eduardo Beduschi, coordinator of the Sustainable Use Program at São Paulo State’s Environment Secretariat. At that time, there was little knowledge and guidance about the legislation, not to mention a lack of organization and obstacles when dealing with government. Slowly, things started to change. A milestone in this process was the launch of the state program Green-Blue Municipality, through which municipalities that commit to good practices are the first to receive money transfers from the state government. Legislation made registry with Cadmadeira mandatory for companies that want to supply timber to public works. Today, more than 300 of the 645 municipalities in the state of São Paulo have their own rules for the use of legal timber. “Demand has been growing,” says Beduschi, adding that the challenge now is to make sure local regulations are worth more than the paper they are printed on. The trigger to this process was the decision by the state government in 2006 to sign the protocol São Paulo Friend of the Amazon, which aims to monitor native timber used within the state’s territory and later was turned into a strategic environmental program. The state’s capital had signed the protocol the previous year and pressure was mounting for the state to control the use of products that contribute to deforestation. At that time, the environmental organization Greenpeace bought illegal timber in the Amazon and transported
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