Fragmentation and lack of legitimacy of the international and European forest regime complex in legal perspective

该项目将评估国际森林制度综合体中存在的不成体系问题以及由此造成的缺乏合法性问题。在此基础上，它将探讨促进国际森林政策的一致性和合法性的各种备选办法及其合法化和合法化的手段。正如下文将详细分析的那样，国际森林制度综合体似乎在两个方面受到支离破碎的影响。首先，森林问题可能确实落后于当代国际环境法制度的发展，因为它们缺乏一项专门的国际协定的合法性，而生物多样性、气候变化和荒漠化等许多其他问题却享有这种合法性。第二，由于国际法律的制度的这一发展和其他发展，森林政策的某些方面被单独集中处理，而且可以说，没有得到诸如《气候变化框架公约》、《生物多样性公约》和《国际热带木材协定》等不同国际制度的充分协调。更重要的是，与这种森林政策有关的措施，例如核证、强制性标签办法和有关的贸易限制，目前都要遵守世贸组织的规则和标准，因此需要仔细设计，以防止任何不一致之处。为了补充这一全球评估，将分析欧洲联盟内森林政策的法律的框架，该框架也缺乏合法性，但显然开展了一些活动。

The project will assess the fragmentation, which exists in the international forest regime complex and the resulting lack of legitimation. On this basis, it will explore options to advance coherence and legitimation for an international forest policy and means of its legitimation and legalization. As will be analysed in detail, it appears, that the international forest regime complex suffers from fragmentation in two ways. Firstly, forest issues did probably lag behind in the development of the contemporary international system of environmental law as they lacked the legitimation by a dedicated international agreement, which so many other issues such as biodiversity, climate change and desertification do enjoy. Secondly, due to this and other developments of the international legal system, particular aspects of forest policies are intensively dealt with separately and – arguably - without much coordination by diverse international regimes like, for instance, the FCCC, the CBD and the ITTA. To the more, relevant measures for such forest policy, like, for instance, certification, compulsory labelling schemes and related trade restrictions are nowadays subject to rules and standards of the WTO and thus need to be carefully designed in order to prevent any inconsistencies. In order to complement this global assessment, the legal frame of forest policy within the European Union will be analysed, which also suffers from a lack of legitimation, but apparently nonetheless developed a number of activities.