Stephen Mitchell Associates

If you are importing from Indonesia and using the Indonesian Country Specific Guideline for your risk assessment - a reminder that...

A written due diligence system is a requirement of the Regulation and it must include some essential elements about your business and the...

Last month we provided some tips to help our clients tidy up loose ends before the end of the soft start compliance period. Here are a...

Principal Stephen Mitchell has 12 years’ experience in assisting importers of timber, plywood, paper and wood furniture understand and...

SMA has co-authored six Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for Australian timber products for WoodSolutions. These EPDs provide...

The NSW EPA has opened round 3 of its $2.5M Circulate Industrial Ecology grants program. The new grants provide an opportunity for the...

The UK Environment Minister has said the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) will continue after the UK exits the European Union. The EUTR...

The US Government has stopped shipments of timber into the USA from the Peruvian company Inversiones Oroza (Oroza) for a period of three...

Transparency International has released the results of their 2017 rating of perceived corruption of countries around the world – the...

I conducted Illegal Logging Due Diligence training seminars in 2016 and am thinking of running more this year. If you are interested,...