The EU requested the establishment of an arbitration panel under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement on Ukraine’s export ban on unprocessed wood.  The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement prohibits any form of export restrictions. The EU considers therefore that keeping in place since 2005 a permanent ban on exports of sawn wood violates the terms of the agreement.  This is also the case for the additional ten-year ban on exports of all unprocessed wood effective since 2015.  The EU has raised the issue of the export ban with the Ukraine authorities ...