Nov 27, 2003. /Lesprom Network/. Russian Ilim Pulp Enterprise intends to certify 51% of own forestries, the volume of rented forestries will be increased form actual 4,2 million hectares to 8,5 million hectares by 2007, company’s director for timber industry business development Dmitri Chuiko said at the “Russian pulp and paper industry development problems” conference. The problem of company’s forestry certification is rather acute, he said. However Russia hasn’t chosen voluntary certification system yet and there're no consulting and audit companies with international accreditation in this country. In fact no pulp and paper mill has own fixed forestries which makes forestry use chaotic. The quality of fixed forestries does not meet international standards. Therefore Ilim Pulp Enterprise-owned Kotlassky pulp and paper mill is forced to import raw-materials from behind the Urals, while Segezsky pulp and paper mill reduced timber production 7%. It has been disclosed that about 400 thousand cub m of hardwood are stored no particular purpose on Ust-Ilimsky timber mill site with . After the certification is carried out Ilim Pulp intends to boost timber production from 11 million cub m/yr to 14,7 million cub m/yr by 2007. The company is presently working to diminish the impact of season prevalence factor. Water transportation was cut 5 times in Kotlas, for instance. Russia should launch certification as timber industry powerful marketing communication means, Finnish timber industry association vice-president Pertti Leine said. National forestry program-2010 has been designed in Finland to monitor the origin of timber imported from Russia - 85% of the country’s timber imports are from Russia. Russia should develop paper recycling facilities, he said. Recycled paper production in Finland was 72% compared with average 50% in other countries.