The recently published standard, It has been the work of the Subcommittee 4 CTN 56, that ANEPROMA worked, con el fin de obtener un documento que permita a las empresas y prescriptores conocer cómo actuar en los casos de ataques en cascos urbanos por termitas.

For more information, contact with the technical secretariat of ANEPROMA via email aneproma@aneproma.es o solis@aneproma.es.

The past 30 of December, the standard was published UNE 56418:2016 “Action Protocol in urban districts affected by attacks of subterranean termites”, by the Technical Committee for Standardization 56 “Wood and Cork”, that the Subcommittee is attached 4 “Wood protection”, in which ANEPROMA actively collaborates. This standard is to respond to a historical demand for the wood treatment sector, to regulate and normalize the actions to be developed in urban areas or buildings, para el control de la termita subterránea.

This repellent agent, along with rot fungi, It may cause, in a relatively short time., the ruin of the buildings, through its silent and hidden action, so it is necessary to fight with all the means at our disposal your condition to the assets of the society. With the publication of the abovementioned standard, Spain approaches its regulatory framework to countries of high tradition in timber construction and care, as France, country that has abundant legislation developed to the effect, así como una Ley específica para la prevención y lucha contra los ataques de termitas y otros agentes xilófagos.

The course “INSPECTION TECHNICIAN, DETECTION AND TREATMENT FOR ACTING ON INNER CITIES ATTACKED BY TERMITES” aims to train students for:

• Develop inspections aimed at the control of termites in urban
• Identify the different species of termites in Spain
• Develop actions of control against termites, Once it is full knowledge of its biology and special features
• Identify and assimilate, a personal and business level, the reference in the sector regulatory requirements (UNE-EN 16636:2015; UNE 56418:2016)
• Desarrollar la actividad profesional del control de termitas subterráneas en el ámbito urbano conforme a protocolos establecidos y aceptados por el sector.
• Facilitar el conocimiento y uso de técnicas y herramientas para la detección y vigilancia de ataques de termes subterráneas.

In the words of Ramón Serra, President of ANEPROMA: “This standard is to cover a troubling regulatory gap in the sector; from our partnership, It brings together professionals from the sector preventive and curative of wood, some more of 100 years of experience in the conservation of this noble material, It has been working, together with other stakeholders in the field, to develop a text that regulates, somehow, the actions of the subterranean termite control, one of the xylophages which further damage, at the economic level, they generate year after year. For this reason, Once the approval in the respective normalization of standard bodies has been, ANEPROMA now promotes the transfer of knowledge and results to the business, as a way of increasing their professional training, to ensure that the principles and requirements contained in the standard will be extended to the entire sector with the greatest possible agility.”

ANEPROMA It represents and defends all of the protection of the wood sector, at the preventive level, How healing. The Association has been able to identify the needs of the sector (and its professionals), in areas of high specialization, as control treatments of termes and inspections in wooden structures. Proof of this are the numerous editions of the courses “BIOLOGY OF SUBTERRANEAN WOODWORM AND DRY WOOD” e “INTERVENTION IN WOODWORK”, training actions which have allowed closer to the professionals of the sector skills and knowledge not always accessible or contained in the topics of the courses required by the Royal Decree 830/2010 (Applicator and biocides TP8 technical manager″.

For more information about the course, You can visit ANEPROMA website (www.aneproma.es) o, directly, via email formacion@aneproma.es

The National Association of companies of timber protection (ANEPROMA), continuing with its efforts to support the associated, on April 27 he traveled to Toledo, con motivo de la celebración de la primera jornada informativa desarrollada por una Administración Pública en relación a las nuevas obligaciones derivadas de la entrada en vigor del RD 1088/2015.

The day consisted of a workshop in which attended the Directorate General of forestry policy and natural spaces of the Junta of communities of Castilla – La Mancha, as competent regional body for the, the Directorate General of forest policy and Rural Development, the Ministry of agriculture, Food and environment, in its role as competent administration coordination of the different regional councils, the sectoral Association of importing companies of wood and/or products derived, AENOR, as independent certification authority and PEFC (Spanish Association for forest sustainability), as responsible for sustainability of forest products voluntary certification schemes. This workshop was convened every professional and company whose activity uses wood and/or products derived, finding, the same, as the obligations included in the RD 1088/2015 vary your intensity depending on whether they act as agents or merchants, conforme al sentido que a estos dos términos aplica el EUTR y su legislación derivada.

ANEPROMA He attended on behalf of all partners, regardless of the sector to which they belong (preventative or curative treatment), Since the implementation of the mandates of the RD 1088/2015 it applies to all economic agent that sometime make a purchase – sale of timber, very common fact in the subsector of preventive treatment, and something more testimonial, but also existing, en el subsector del tratamiento curativo.

At this point, It is necessary to define and clarify the concepts that you are driving so far… What is an agent? What is a merchant? Can a company be agent and merchant at a time?

RD 1088/2015, as a legal text of field and national implementation, it transposes into the Spanish legal system mandates and requirements the Regl. (EU) 995/2010 (EUTR) and derived legislation, define al agente como "cualquier persona física o jurídica que comercializa POR PRIMERA VEZ en el mercado interior (Community, European Union) madera o productos de madera". Aquí encontraremos a todos aquellos asociados de ANEPROMA que realicen importación desde países no UE u obtengan productos forestales directamente en monte.

On the other hand, is defined to the merchant as "cualquier persona física o jurídica que en el transcurso de una actividad comercial vende o adquiere en el mercado interior madera o productos de la madera ya comercializados" (art. 6.1 and art. 6.3, respectively). Here you will find all those partners of ANEPROMA que se provean de material forestal o ya importado o ya aprovechado por un tercero.

We can, as a result, find a noticeable difference: agent shall be any natural person / legal to import good wood and/or products derived from a non-EU country (for the first time puts this type of product on the Community market) either perform the logging of timber forest products at the heart of the EU countries. It is important to highlight that the company can act either as agent or dealer, as they are not mutually exclusive definitions; depende del tipo de operación comercial que haya desarrollado.

At the same time, the Regl (EU) 9995/2010 (EUTR) and, as a result, RD 1088/2015, requires officials holding, application, maintenance and improvement of a system of due diligence, It will consist in the execution of three successive stages (collection of information > risk assessment > risk mitigation), conducive and aimed at eliminating (or minimize) el riesgo de comercializar madera de origen o cadena de suministro ilegal.

On the other hand, required for traceability in procurement operations traders – sale of wood and/or products derived; It is necessary to know who supplied these products and supply who such, After the necessary operations that requires the productive cycle of each company in particular. This is achieved, basically, control of purchase invoices – sale and, in certain special cases, con la generación de un archivo de control de estas operaciones.

At the same time, has developed a system of responsible statements should be carried out by agents, developed by the different autonomous communities., coordinated by the Ministry, to report regularly to the management of all commercial operations that are put, for the first time, a product of wood (or derived) on the Community market. Castilla – The spot has been the first Government in implementing a telematics system for the presentation of these responsible for statements, which should inform, among other data of:

• Agent data
• Representative data
• The Declaration data (Depending on the type of agent)
• Type of forest product (denomination, CN code – tariff – quantity – TN -, origin, chain of custody certification)

The object of these responsible for statements is the transfer of information to management so that, Depending on the type of agent (depends on the type of common wood supplies and if you have implanted a system of chain of custody or not), the different future performances of inspection and control to plan, con objeto de garantizar el cumplimiento de la legislación vigente.

Has been planned this responsible Declaration to be delivered to each regional Department on an annual basis, prior to the thirty-one March of every year, except for the year 2016, in which the term, for your presentation, expira el próximo día doce de junio.

In this sense, ANEPROMA It puts its technical team at the full disposal of partners, as usual, to provide support and service in relation to these legislative developments, informando a todo aquel que presente interés en la material y ofreciendo la posibilidad de realizar las declaraciones responsables para aquellos asociados que hayan actuado como agentes durante la anualidad de 2015.

The same, ANEPROMA remember those considerable Associates as actors to the implementation of a system of chain of custody, but does not guarantee to the 100% compliance with the legislation, Yes it gives the company that implements it and maintains possession of a due diligence system (whereupon, complies with national legislation) and reduces the associated risk (cuantificable mediante el "tipo de agente" It assigns the management), so they will minimize or avoid inspections and actions of control by the competent authority. ANEPROMA It boasts qualified staff to help all that interested in the implementation partner, seguimiento y auditoría de sistemas de control de cadenas de custodia y gestión forestal sostenible.

The way market continues is assisting the implementation of wood with treatments that do not comply with retention and minimal insights to ensure the durability of the wood.

The internal quality control of treatment are minimal or non-existent, import wood usually come dyed green but do not possess adequate penetration and retention. Esta situación debe ser controlada mediante la realización de ensayos de laboratorio.

IN this sense ANEPROMA has arranged for companies associated and not associated wood analysis service, especially economical for partners to ANEPROMA, It will allow companies in the treatments carried out correct and constant control.

To consult rates of testing and shipment of samples please contact the Secretariat of ANEPROMA, aneproma@aneproma.es  

AITIM develops extensive work within the framework of its activities in the field of research, Technology, Quality control, Standardization, Certification, Publications, Formación y Promoción de los productos Forestales y en especial de la madera.

The specific objectives of this collaboration are the following:

• Collaboration in promotion activities for the protection of the wood and more and better use of treated wood products: dissemination of news, articles, documents, applications, etc., que interesen a los prescriptores a través de de los medios que dispone AITIM.

• Collaboration in the preparation, follow-up and translation of standards in the field of the protection of the wood, tanto en los comités nacionales como en los internacionales.

• Participation in joint projects, both nationally and internationally, relacionados con la protección de la madera y la utilización de productos de madera tratados.

• Asesoramiento mutuo en cuestiones relacionadas con la actividad de ambas entidades.

The President of ANEPROMA, Sr. Serra, says"that this union with AITIM is strategic because for years it has been the Association linked to the research and development of the rules which currently is implanted in our production systems and allows us to compete with other materials. Take advantage of to thank this collaboration the new President of AITIM D. Antonio Jobbe-Duval, which, in turn, is Vice President of ANEPROMA, who has been actively involved in promoting this agreement together with the direction of AITIM""

The publication of the Law 5/2013 of 11 June, amending the Act 16/2002, of 1 July, integrated pollution prevention and control and the 22/2011, of 28 July, contaminated waste and soil, introduces the wood conservation industry to its annex, I mean, autoclave plants and bathtubs for the treatment of wood, a excepción de las bañeras empleadas para combatir el azulado de la madera.

The business-level implications of the entry into force of the 5/2013 should be defined during the coming months in which the document will be built that will expose the capacity-based enterprises that can be applied, measures to be taken into account in the use of protective products, such as organics that contain COVs, constructive measures to ensure the protection of the soil, water and air, the elimination and management of emission gases, management of the waste generated, etc.

La colaboración activa de la totalidad de empresas del sector de autoclaves y bañeras de tratamiento es de vital importancia porque la falta de implicación de cualquier empresa indiferente del tamaño que posea puede suponer la no defensa de sus intereses y que con ello la posible entrada en vigor del documento de las mejores técnicas disponibles que obliguen a la empresa a realizar una inversión de elevada consideración con respecto al uso de la planta de tratamiento y con ello quede abocada al cese de la actividad.

From ANEPROMA in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente se han comenzado los trabajos iniciales previos a las reuniones presenciales y de votación del contenido del documento.

For the above reasons, please contact an additional member if you are affected to contact anEPROMA technical secretariat as a national representative, in order to expose and report first-hand on the legal implications and actions to date, así como de la manera activa de participar y quedar totalmente representado y defendido sus intereses.

• Dates: del 30 of January al 20 of March of 2015
• Hours: 40 h
• Price ANEPROMA partners: 120 €
• Non-members price: 225 €

• Mode: on line 100 % sin clases presenciales.
• Bonus: For companies that make the course carried out by the tripartite Foundation social security credits they must before the 28 de enero.

ANEPROMA and TECNALIA, within the NATURAL PATHS Day, promoted and organized by TRAGSA for your technicians, were able to explain how to carry out quality assurance of treated wood, permitiendo la durabilidad de la madera puesta en obra.

For TRAGSA, major consumer of treated wood at the national level, it is vital to be able to ensure that your technicians when they receive the material on the construction sites, can know how to carry out internal quality controls, así como los laboratorios que pueden realizar los controles de análisis de retención y penetración en la madera.

To ensure the guarantee of a treatment, it is essential that the description of the species and location of the wood element is carried out to know how it should be protected, a nivel de penetración y de retención.

For ANEPROMA and the technology center TECNALIA, experts in quality control of treated wood this initiative, initiated by TRAGSA for several years is an important progress for the sector, porque permite formar a los técnicos que recepcionan el material y así poder informarles y formarles en las técnicas de control de calidad de madera tratada.

From ANEPROMA, as a sectoral association for wood treatment, it is vital that actions such as the one carried out in TRAGSA in order to unite the business sector, together with the users of the treated material, apostando por la calidad y durabilidad.

The project developed by ANEPROMA, is included inside of the strategic line del sustainable rural development, You searched, through the implementation of a series of interrelated actions, recover e implement traditions currently disused, transferring knowledge to the business and the worker in general, and thereby, achieve the following milestones:

Form to the SMEs and self-employed workers for the empowerment of new infrastructures and rehabilitation of existing ones that allow the use of grasses that grow in areas that, today, they are not exploited, due to the lack of them.

Train to workers del agricultural area in response to the current loss of pastoral culture, which translates in the current farming practices harmful for environment, así como la recesión de una profesión de histórica importancia en España.

Foster the use of cattle as tool for the control of the biomass our Montes, appearance of proven effectiveness in the forest fire prevention.

Dignify and restructure the profession of Pastor within appropriate standards. Population in rural setting, avoiding their exodus and collaborating with a sustainable rural development.

Conservation of the nature, through the rational use of resources, maximizing the value of the same, creating and maintaining cultural landscapes, raising, to the extent possible, the levels of biodiversity and allowing the maintenance of historical and cultural practices that have endured until the last century and that, today, corren peligro de desaparecer.

Well, our project, whose abbreviated title is"The wood in the recovery of tradition with future"he has tried to achieve these objectives by setting this in the" Rico pastoral heritage of the region and in the traditional dedication, majority on the other hand, cattle population. We wanted to join tradition, reflected in these activities of exploitation of the natural environment so ingrained, with future, pues reconocemos el valor de la dedicación pastoral y su contribución a la conservación de los valores naturales.

And to accomplish these goals we have tried to bring to the livestock sector and prescriber (architects and other professions connected with construction and rehabilitation) and the working population of Valley of Alcudia and Sierra Madrona, in general, the basic characteristics of wood and the need for protection that ensures its durability, This is, su duración prolongada en el tiempo.

We have understood that, in an environment of great cattle tradition, with a high density of buildings linked to farms, and with high natural and cultural values that have motivated his statement as Natural Park, the use of the material wood is essential to enhance the qualities of the environment.

As you mentioned, the project, that has presented a double facet of training (FP1 and FP2 courses), information (Technical conferences (SP1, SP2), Studies (E1) and guides (E2, CAM), Web portal, Call PR1, Environmental awareness campaign, Congress (SP3)) and advice, to achieve these ends he has arranged a series of actions, all of them executed and still available, so that they can continue being used, as it is the case of the web portal www.maderaypastoralismo, studies and guides made among others, to ensure that the work done by ANEPROMA along this annuity, consolidate over time, enabling economic growth, cultural and social of the comarca of Valle de Alcudia and Sierra Madrona, landscape rich (fauna and flora), and therefore, sus habitantes.

In the framework of the project, they have carried out two Conference  eminently technical, the days 17  and 18 April of 2012 in the municipalities of Almodóvar's field and Fuencaliente respectively, and under the titles"The recovery and conservation of grazing and their infrastructure in the Valley of Alcudia"and"The recovery and conservation of grazing, hunting activities and its infrastructure in Sierra Madrona"that through a series of communications of renowned speakers",  We could bring to the assistants technical and scientific information on wood, the livestock and hunting sector in the area, employment in the fire prevention using cattle and new approaches for this sector, allowing workers awareness of the need to return to traditional farming practices and how it affects it, el acondicionamiento de infraestructuras y de las oportunidades que se derivan de éste tipo actividad.

As focal point for the project, two have been classroom training courses, in the towns of Almodovar's field and Mestanza during the months of April to June, specifically in the 23 April to the 5 may, in the Centro Cultural "Casa La Marquesa" and the 1 al 18 June, on alternate days, in La Casa de la Cultura, respectively. Training actions had two main themes: the timber construction, aimed at architects and professionals of the wood protection,  and on the other, the livestock sector, to promote adaptation in their awareness of new livestock uses and enable them to face the coming challenges with greater technical capacity, se ha logrado incrementar el nivel profesional de cincuenta profesionales ligados a estas actividades profesionales.

Also, It has undertaken a awareness campaign General for all the workers of the region Valle de Alcudia and Sierra Madrona that has been exhibited a clear and simple manner the benefits and environmental benefits of the use of wood, as carbon sink in life and after its transformation in product carbon store (approximately 1 cubic meter of wood stores more than 1 tonne of carbon).

In the same way in this awareness campaign has been deepened and explained,  the need for the use of livestock as an efficient tool in the fight against forest fires, Since, non-performance, I mean, the lack of grazing in the mountains, favors the increase of biomass (herbaceous substrate) that translates into a percentage increase of the possibility of generating a fire and thereby loss of faunal biodiversity and flora. All of this, It will be reflected in a practical guide to implementation already completed, edited and available.

With this action to the entire project ANEPROMA pursues:

1. Disseminate the advantages, characteristics and possibilities of the use of wood building material how, for the implementation, mejora y rehabilitación de construcciones e infraestructuras del ámbito agropecuario.

2. Sensibilizar a la población trabajadora de la comarca de la necesidad de la recuperación del pastoreo en el monte como actividad primordial para generar producción y conseguir beneficios medioambientales traducibles en la prevención en la lucha contra los incendios en las regiones mediterráneas.

3. Recover the activity of grazing in the locations of the Valley of Alcudia and Sierra Madrona in which this work has been carried out for centuries.

4. Generate new economic engines in the area through information and help to priority groups and companies.

5. Fijar población en zonas con densidades bajas como las estudiadas.

Together with this action, a project website has been designed and launched, www.maderaypastoralismo.es, in which there is updated information on each of the actions developed in the framework of this project, as well as, information on the sector of wood, pastoralism and transhumance, and publications and technical reports in order to transfer knowledge that enables improvement in terms of competitiveness to the region of the Valley of Alcudia and Sierra Madrona, de gran riqueza natural.

In addition,  and as the ultimate goal of the project, two studies have been developed, on the one hand, a diagnostic study the current situation of the agricultural sector and infrastructure associated with the area of the Valley of Alcudia and Sierra Madrona, with the objective of evaluating the existing situation, assess the possibilities and performance criteria and identify current problems and propose solutions to them, and on the other hand, a practical guide for the implementation (construction and rehabilitation) of livestock infrastructures and their consequences on management in the Alcudia Valley and Sierra Madrona. Both works, are now available in paper and electronic format.

With the edition of these guides at a theoretical and practical level, it is intended to achieve:

• Realizar una evaluación de la situación actual y real existente en la zona del Valle de Alcudia y Sierra Madrona.
• Valorar adecuadamente las posibilidades y criterios de actuación en la potenciación de las posibilidades de la zona.
• Identificar la problemática actual y mecanismos resolutorios de los mismos.
• Transfer the knowledge generated in the realization of the study to the workers of the area, desde el punto de vista de aplicación al sector madera y al sector pecuario.
• Provide an easy-to-understand tool for the creation of new lines of business and / or new companies, fomentando para ello la iniciativa empresarial.
• Introduce new (Traditional) conceptos ambientalistas para el aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales y la prevención de incendios forestales.
• Concienciar a la población trabajadora de la zona de la necesidad de retomar tareas sostenibles con el medio.

As the final closure of the project, the act of awards ceremony to the winners of the public competition "Award for the best new construction project and rehabilitation of livestock infrastructures in Valle de Alcudia and Sierra Madrona"", prize – competition, consisting of the presentation of ideas of works with wood looking for, at all times, make the population of the Alcudia Valley see the advantages of using a traditional material such as wood in livestock constructions (and of any other type, go ahead), and enhance their environmental knowledge. The event took place, Saturday 6 October of 14:30 to 15:20 h at the Municipal Theatre of Almodóvar del Campo, coinciding with the celebration of the Technical Congress, in which in addition to briefly presenting a balance of final results of the project,  it was intended to transmit to all those present there, professionals in the livestock sector, hunting and industrial wood, mainly, mechanisms to promote the use of the resources of the Alcudia Valley and Sierra Madrona as a source of social benefits, environmental and economic guarantors of the sustainability of the region and inform of the need to bet on extensive livestock as a tool to fight forest fires, and zoom in, knowledge about the potential of wood as a constructive element, training and training workers in the area and generating new entrepreneurial initiatives that advocate the use of traditional products over time.

Finally, to say that, continuously, has been offered personalized advice at a distance  to all those workers and self-employed located in the municipalities of the region of Valle de Alcudia and Sierra Madrona and Ciudad Real, with ideas for the generation of new lines of activity and / or creation of new businesses linked to the recovery of pastoral activity through the implementation of livestock infrastructures, or any other type of topic related to the agricultural sectors, cinegético y industrial de la madera.

With this action, partly still in progress, by the results derived from it, through the personalized advice of the technical team of ANEPROMA doubts have been solved on issues related to wood, your employment, improvements in livestock management and, especially,  it should be noted, basic service to promote new jobs in the region, promote associationism and, In short, help solve doubts and boost business activity in the area. Fruit of the advisory work carried out by ANEPROMA, has been created within the framework of the project, ""Interprofessional Association for the defence of the Mediterranean mount in the Pastoral heritage" which aims to ensure the viability of extensive and sustainable livestock activity, as well as, new business orientations and extensions of category and/or professional activity.

For more information, contact the secretariat of ANEPROMA on the phone 626 348 163 or through the project's website www.maderaypastoralismo.es.

Free actions co-financed by the ESF