HOW COULD EUROPEAN FORESTS BEST BENEFIT FROM THE EU FOREST MONITORING LAW?

This briefi ng makes recommendations to ensure that the FML will enable the EU to live up to its commitments and base future plans on science, allowing for forest ecosystems restoration, carbon storage and sequestration, species protection and socio-economic prosperity: When it comes to indicators, the Forest Monitoring Law should be a one-stop shop for assessing progress on the objectives of th. [...] Indicators Proposed modification to strengthen the FML Indicators which Location of the European Advance the reporting date for primary and old growth forests and broaden require major old growth forest definitions of old growth forests, followed by monitoring of their state. [...] to guarantee Law -Article 10 alignment between policy Location of the forest habitats Include clearly defined indicators related to forest habitats within and and monitoring in Habitat Directive - Annex I outside of Natura 2000 in the forest data collection framework to Article 5. [...] Forest soil indicators Enhance the alignment between the indicators and descriptors used in the FML and the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive and ensure that the datasets are used for the implementation of both Directives. [...] Forest structure Include forest development stage, uneven-aged structure, and height in the forest data collection framework in Article 5  2 HOW COULD EUROPEAN FORESTS BEST BENEFIT FROM THE EU FOREST MONITORING LAW? IMPROVING GOVERNANCE The European Green Deal has introduced and revised a number of targets and reporting obligations which are relevant for forests and forest resources management.