A painful confirmation by the European Commission that its headquarters contain 1,000 square metres of uncertified wood from the Indonesian tropical forest highlights the problem of illegally logged timber in the EU.
The commission press service on Friday (1 December) confirmed that uncertified plywood was used to renovate the 13th floor - where commission president Jose Manuel Barroso's office and the commissioners' rooms are located - despite Brussels' policy of not using dodgy materials in its buildings...
..."In this case, those specifications have not been followed and the contractor has accepted to pay a fine of Eur750," she added, having to repeat the amount of the fine in French after few journalists could believe the small size of the sanction...
