18 October 2013 – 8:38am

The EU granted 7 post-Soviet states 9 million euro for Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG II) in 2013-2016, Trend reports.

The EU has been financing the FLEG II within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy since 2013. The program is realized by the World Bank, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

The program was developed to prevent fires and illegal forest cutting, to protect rights of locals, to provide information. FLEG has been financed by the European Commission since 2007.