The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) Bureau nominated Hans Hoogeven (Netherlands) as Chair during its 21 June 2006 meeting.

Other items discussed during the meeting included preparations for the 11-15 December 2006 Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group, which will consider the content of a Non-Legally Binding Instrument prior to UNFF-7. The second UNFF-7 Bureau meeting will convene in August. Meanwhile, in the latest newsletter of the UNFF Secretariat, Pekka Patosaari, Director of the UNFF Secretariat, writes that the future agenda of UNFF will include building on the Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) processes. The Secretariat is in the process of assessing the key elements for successful governance regimes and the relationship between governance and sustainable forest management, and will publish a background study on forest ownership and governance in late 2006.

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UNFF Newsletter