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     1        much natural regeneration as is practicable on each site.
     2        They have done that for generations really.
     3
     4   Q.   I am just trying to establish the official position.  Has
     5        France adopted these kinds of statements; if so, do you
     6        know when?
     7        A.  France again manage their forests very specifically
     8        region by region, community by community, and have had a
     9        very long tradition of forest management.  Exactly when
    10        they signed any document in relation to this, they have
    11        been participant in all the conferences you have referred
    12        to.
    13
    14   Q.   Germany -- do you happen to know?
    15        A.  Very similarly, with a strong environmental concern
    16        right the way through, the way Germany operates its
    17        industry and its forest industry as well.
    18
    19   Q.   Yes, but do you know if they have adopted this kind of
    20        formal position on sustainability and biological diversity?
         A.  I think each nation in turn is adopting the
    22        international stance.  Prior to that there were very much
    23        more local considerations of what was acceptable and what
    24        was not acceptable.  That will vary according to the type
    25        of forest.
    26
    27   Q.   Do you happen to know in Italy any time-scale?
    28        A.  No, other than their involvement equally in all these
    29        international conferences.
    30
    31   Q.   Such as Rio and Helsinki are the main ones, basically?
    32        A.  Indeed.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When you referred to the accord a little
    35        while ago and I asked if you had a copy, was that just
    36        Canada or world-wide?
    37        A.  No -- well, yes, it was the States, the provinces of
    38        Canada, agreeing at ministerial level, their forestry
    39        ministers  -----
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, that is all I needed to know.
    42        A.  That was, essentially, a Canadian accord.
    43
    44   MR. MORRIS:  Finally, on your list of countries, Czechoslovakia
    45        or the Czech Republic, do you know if they have adopted
    46        formally these kinds of principle?
    47        A.  They have been participants but, as you will
    48        appreciate, the Czech Republic has emerged in the
    49        time-scale we are talking about and, therefore, their
    50        Ministry of Agriculture which is responsible for forestry 
    51        have adopted principles which they are capable of coping 
    52        with within their own country and they have certainly been 
    53        participant in the international conferences.
    54
    55   Q.   They are signatories, are they, of these resolutions, do
    56        you know that?
    57        A.  I would have to establish that as a specific point as
    58        to whether Czechoslovakia signed a document in particular
    59        because I do not know the answer to that.
    60