The document provides an introduction to FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade), an EU initiative to reduce illegal logging. It discusses the EU FLEGT Action Plan, which includes measures to increase demand for legal timber through policies on public procurement and private purchasing, as well as measures to increase the supply of legal timber through Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) between timber exporting countries and the EU. VPAs involve timber licensing schemes and legality verification systems to ensure only legal timber enters international trade. The EU Timber Regulation further prohibits illegal timber in the EU market and requires companies to conduct due diligence on their timber sources.