Timber: Smuggling
(asked on 25th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what sanctions the National Measurement Office can take against companies that trade in illegally imported timber.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2016
The Timber and Timber Products (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2013 provide for the use of a Notice placing obligations on companies to comply with requirements, breach of which is a criminal offence.
Regulation 13 provides graduated penalties for offences: on summary conviction, a fine of £5000 and/or 3 months imprisonment; and on indictment, an unlimited fine and/or 2 years imprisonment.