Wood procurement

The most important goal in the area of wood procurement is to provide wood in line with market requirements.

This requires strategic and structural developments in forestry.

In detail, the following objectives and measures are important:

• Ensure security of supply of the leading tree species through consensus between forest owners and industry in order to pool economic, technological and standardisation activities and achieve broad coverage.

• Forest management is organised into sufficiently large, entrepreneurial and long-term sustainable operating units that operate according to best practice principles.

  • Public forest variant: joint, professional forestry operation for the joint management of the relevant forests.

  • Private forest variant: Cooperation in regional organizations of forest owners who offer their services according to entrepreneurial criteria.

  • Important are:

    • Forestry Services

    • specialization quality standard

    • business administration training

    • Understanding and know-how of forest owners and the public for forest use

• The roles of the state and the forestry industry are clear. The state limits itself to creating framework conditions that ensure the efficient provision of wood and other important ecosystem services through the forestry industry.

• Benchmarks and lighthouse organizations are established regionally.

• The use of forests and wood ensures ecosystem services. Additional needs are met and valued in a benefit-oriented manner.

• The research is oriented towards the value chain (the focus is on the cycle and not necessarily on the cascade)

• Forestry training and further education is designed to target the bioeconomy/value creation system and the teaching content is taught at all levels of training.

• Digitalization and standards are established across the entire value chain.

• Forest owners are aware of their responsibility for all ecosystem services; production targets are customer-oriented.

• Framework conditions for better marketing and sales channels have been created.

• The conditions for a consistent and transparent value chain have been created.