The Timber Trade Federation has published a ten-point action plan to promote the sourcing of legal and sustainable timber from Indonesia. This follows a landmark meeting earlier in June 2003, which brought together for the first time a range of stakeholders including business, NGOs and government.

Only 4% of the Indonesian plywood exports is imported to the UK compared to 75%, which is exported to Japan and China but the Timber Trade Federation is determined to play its part in securing Indonesia's most important natural resource. The approach preferred by the UK timber trade is to purchase from mills that can effectively separate streams of known, legal timber from unknown and potentially illegal timber, and to work closely with those mills to eventually eliminate all timber of unknown or dubious origin.

The immediate objective of the action plan is to secure third party verified legal timber for the UK market with the ultimate objective of sourcing certified sustainable timber. The aim is identify mills which are most likely to reach sustainability and which in the short term can supply the UK market with legal material. The key objective of a Scoping study was to explore and report on the current and future state of legality of existing and potential mills supplying the UK market. 18 UK timber traders sponsored the study.