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     2   MR. MORRIS:  I will show that to Mr. Rampton and then we will
     3        continue.  It was disclosed to the Plaintiffs.  Is the
     4        situation, in your understanding, similar in Finland?
     5        A.  I do not have figures for Finland.  I would assume
     6        because the forestry industry runs in a similar sort of
     7        way, they would be similar.  They might actually be higher
     8        because a specific policy of the Finnish government, being
     9        a small country in a competitive market, may have gone for
    10        paper, which is a high value added product which brings
    11        jobs into the economy.  I do not have any figures, but
    12        I assume they would be similar, if not a higher proportion
    13        going into paper in Finland.
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    15   Q.   Is Finland a major player in pulp production?
    16        A.  It is in terms of actual output.  I am not quite
    17        certain, but Finland has about 0.5 per cent of the world's
    18        forests and provides 5 per cent of the world's coniferous
    19        and boreal timber supply.  It is particularly important, 37
    20        per cent of Finland's export earnings come from the forest
    21        industry -- mostly from paper.
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    23   Q.   I will move on.  In fact, the letter from Nigel Dudley -- I
    24        do not know if it is suitable for a Civil Evidence Act
    25        notice as it is specifically from him in response to this
    26        case.  May that be a -----
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    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have an address in Bristol.  You can make
    29        it a Civil Evidence Act notice, but you may, for all
    30        I know, immediately be faced with a counter notice.  Then
    31        he has to come.  What you want to ask yourself is whether
    32        you want to embark on that sort of line, or you are content
    33        with the answer that Mr. Hopkins has given, that he agrees
    34        with what Mr. Dudley has said.  So, that is really then
    35        relying on Mr. Hopkins' evidence for that.  It is entirely
    36        a matter for you, but I would be careful about putting
    37        Civil Evidence Act notices on statements of people who have
    38        addresses in this country anyway.
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    40   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I will leave the reference on the World
    41        Wildlife Fund for the moment.  I am going to refer to the
    42        Skogsindustrierna press statement which Mr. Mallinson did
    43        look at.  It is actually reference No. 2.  Do you have a
    44        copy of it?
    45        A.  I have a copy here, yes.
    46
    47   Q.   In the paragraph under "Problems admitted", I do not
    48        believe we have to read it all out, but what is your
    49        conclusion of what the industry are saying here?  You can
    50        quote what is relevant. 
    51        A.  I think the most important thing is recognition by the 
    52        timber industry itself that what they are doing in the way 
    53        of plantation forests cannot preserve all the biological
    54        functions within a forest.  They say -- I quote:  "'A
    55        cultivated and tended forest cannot contain all the
    56        biological qualities and variations that are to be found in
    57        the natural forest'".
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    59        I think maybe what is important is what we are now seeing
    60        is countries like Finland and Sweden are now admitting that

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