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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.
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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
