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154 Appendix 6• The Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna,March 1985)• The Montreal Protocol on the Control of Chlorofluorocarbons (Montreal,September 1987)• The Convention on Climate Change (June 1992)• The Convention on Biodiversity (Paris, October 1994)3. African Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (AFLEG)Like most African countries, Cameroon committed to be part of the initiativelaunched in 1989 by the G-8 countries to combat illegal exploitation,illicit trade in forest products and corruption in the forest sector.This initiative aims to stimulate, at the highest political level, the willof the international community to curb these scourges in order to ensuresustainable management of our forest resources. This explains why theefforts made by Cameroon to meet this imperative have, over the lastten years, been marked by political, legislative and institutional reforms,and adoption of basic instruments that should promote conservation andsustainable management of natural forests.This concerns especially the following:• Adoption of a forest exploitation system that makes use of developmentplans aimed at ensuring sustainable management of productionforests;• Improvement of forest governance by setting up a legal frameworkconducive to the development of the private sector, which guaranteestransparency in the process of allocating forest concessions and supervisingexploitation activities, the major innovation being the use of callfor tenders and the presence of independent observers;• Adoption of Principles, Criteria and Indicators (PCI) for sustainablemanagement of forests in Cameroon in December 2004 is one of thelinks in the certification chain.Progress made in terms of reforms geared towards the conservation andsustainable management of forests in Cameroon is remarkable, and thusdeserves to be appraised and evaluated. However, this is an exacting processthat requires the Delivered collaboration by The World of all Bank stakeholders e-library to: in the sector.The World BankCameroon is determined to IP pursue : 192.86.100.34 these reforms. The concern here is toensure rational management Mon, of a 09 national Nov 2009 heritage 17:06:18 of great importance whilemainstreaming future needs. We do not have the right to deprive futuregenerations of the benefits that we are deriving from the forest today.(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
2005 Forest and Environment Sector Policy Letter 1554. The Sector Reform PlanOn the basis of progress made and in order to consolidate the first phase ofthe essentially institutional and legislative reform of the forest sector, a secondphase of reforms was launched with the support of the Bretton WoodsInstitutions, who mainstreamed a forest sector component into the ThirdStructural Adjustment Credit (SAC III) granted to Cameroon. This componentis based on the following three key objectives of the forestry policy:• Sustainable management of the resource;• Stimulation of economic growth and contribution to poverty alleviationespecially by ceding to councils and communities part of forestryrevenue, job creation in the timber sector and community forestsmanaged by communities themselves; and• Development of a dynamic and efficient private sector.The main reforms encouraged include the following:Competitive allocation of exploitation permits. Forest exploitation permits(Forest Management Units, Sale of Standing Volume) are allocatedby means of a competitive procedure on the basis of technical and financialcriteria. File selection is carried out by an interministerial commissionthat includes an independent observer who contributes to improvetransparency in the permit allocation procedure.Planning of allocation of exploitation permits. In order to ensure rationalmanagement of its natural resources, the Government of Cameroondesigned a concessions allocation planning strategy (UFAs) in 1999 andprovided clarifications concerning the different types of existing permits.This strategy was updated in April 2004 and envisages the allocation ofall forest concessions by 2006. Such planning constitutes an importantinstrument both for forestry and taxation services as well as forest exploitationcompanies.Setting up the Forestry Revenue Enhancement Programme (PSRF). Placedunder the twin supervision of the Ministries in charge of Forestry andFinance, the PSRF was set up in June 1999 to strengthen the hitherto veryweak forestry-tax collection capacity. The PSRF centralises the collectionof forest exploitation-specific taxes and common law taxes for big companies.Since the creation Delivered of by the The programme, World Bank e-library the Ministry to: of Finance andThe World BankEconomy has recorded a significant IP : 192.86.100.34 increase in forest tax revenue (excludingexport taxes): from CFAF Mon, 10 09 Nov billion 2009 in 17:06:18 1998/1999, CFAF 29 billion in2000/2001 to CFAF 40 billion in 2002/2003, at a time when the taxationsystem is fully operational and recovery rates reach 90 percent.(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
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