This guide provides some hints and tips on how to spot fake or forged documents. It has been developed to assist companies to meet the due diligence requirements under the EU Timber Regulation to minimise the risk of sourcing illegal wood and wood products. A due diligence system will invariably rely, in part, on collecting documents to provide legal evidence such as harvest permits, land tenure certificates, forest management plans, phytosanitary certificates, VAT invoices and many more.
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