FAO is conducting a series of regional and sub-regional workshops as part of the preparatory work for the country reporting to the Global Forest Resources Assessment Update 2005 (FRA 2005). These regional workshops respond to requests made by many member countries during the global training session held at FAO Headquarters in Rome in November 2003.
The Sub-regional Workshop for Southern and South-Eastern Europe was held in Budapest, Hungary. It was hosted by the FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR) and jointly organized by the FRA Secretariat of the FAO Forestry Department in Rome, and the UNECE/FAO Timber Branch in Geneva. Apart from being the main organizers of the workshop, Mr. Volker Sasse (FAOSEUM) and Mr. Alexander Korotkov (UNECE/FAO Timber Branch) also assisted during the whole workshop as part of the FAO-FRA team.
Invitations to the workshop were extended to the nominated National Correspondents (NCs) for a selected number of countries in southern, central and south-eastern Europe. In total nine participants from eight countries attended the meeting (see List of participants in Appendix 1).
