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Annex 3.Russian Association of Environmentally Responsible Timber Producers — Principles ofEcological PolicyPrinciple 1. All wood used by the company is legally harvested, or the legality of origin is monitoredand certain.1.1 The company has a transparent wood supply policyWood supply policy includes:• Ceasing the purchase of wood in cash, without relevant documents, and/or from doubtful suppliers• Purchasing wood by contracts with clear requirements for origin legality and ecology• Transparent wood-tracing procedure, and the company’s readiness to verify it1.2 The network of suppliers is optimised in accordance with the supply requirements of responsible forestmanagementOptimisation of the supply network includes:• Careful selection of wood suppliers in order to influence the quality of their forest management• The number of suppliers is balanced with the company’s capacity to check them qualitatively• Purchasing wood at trading agents that have, in turn, a transparent system of tracing wood origin1.3 Mechanisms for monitoring suppliers are implementedWood origin monitoring mechanisms consist of:• An internal system for monitoring wood supply, including cutting area inspection procedure• Verifying the internal monitoring system by a third partyPrinciple 2. The company does not use wood from protected areas and supports the protection of highconservation-value forests2.1 The company fulfils the restrictions of the forest use regime and roundwood procurement• The company does not use wood from protected areas, except where such felling (main cutting) is legallyallowed• The company does not use wood from Group I forests where commercial logging is prohibited, spawninggroundprotection zones of valuable fish species, valuable forest sites, reserved forest sites, and sub-tundraforests• The company does not use wood from areas which are included in the proposed list of newly-protectedareas, or from special protection sites endorsed by the Government of the Russian Federation or by regionaladministrations• The company does not use wood from large intact forests until interested parties arrive at a mutually acceptablesocial, economic, and environmental solution for conservation and use.2.2 The company supports the identification and protection of high conservation-value forests in leased areas• If a region in the Russian Federation has no maps of high conservation-value forests, the company initiatestheir identification or actively supports the endeavour• The level of protection and use of leased forests is in compliance with their conservation value• Basic biotopes and high conservation value forests are identified in each cutting area, and marked in managementplans and flow charts46