Liaison Office Brussels
European Forestry House
Rue du Luxembourg 66
B-1000 Bruxelles
Phone +32 2 219 02 31
Fax +32 2 219 21 91
e-mail office@cepf-eu.org

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Organisation

CEPF is a non-profit-making organisation representing the interests of European forest owners. It promotes and protects the concept of family forestry through enhanced collaboration by its members, cooperation with the European institutions as well as extensive networking and lobbying activities.
 
The cooperation of CEPF members and stakeholder groups is sustained thought activities of three liaison offices, in Brussels, Luxembourg and Budapest, with guidelines and steering support from the CEPF General Assembly and the CEPF Board.
 
In addition to this, working groups are established both on a permanent as well as ad hoc basis to elaborate on emerging issues and specific policy areas.
 
CEPF was established in 1996 as a successor organization to the Central Committee of Forest Owners in the European Economic Community, which was founded in 1961.

Activities

The CEPF activities aim at fostering reliable political framework conditions and strengthening national forest owners’ organizations capacities in order to maintain and enhance an economically viable, socially beneficial, culturally valuable and ecologically responsible sustainable forest management.
 
The individual forest owners are part of social networks from semi-rural to remote rural areas to which Community policies may be not easily communicated. CEPF acts on emerging issues, making expert and constructive contributions on behalf of the forest owners. In this sense, CEPF has a bridge building role, enabling family forest owners from the local level to voice their concerns and transfer their knowledge to be available at the European level.
 
CEPF represents the interests of these forest owners through active participation in, monitoring of and working with the institutions of the European Union and other international initiatives.

CEPF has an observer status in leading processes and organizations which shape forestry and forest policy in Europe and worldwide.

CEPF is a member of International Family Forestry Alliance - IFFA a worldwide organization, which represents more than 25 million forest owners.