Decades of preferential state timber supply under investigation in Latvia

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Latvia’s Competition Council has imposed a €7.86 million fine on state-owned Latvijas Valsts Meži (LVM), ruling that a group of wood-processing companies received preferential access to state roundwood under contracts dating back to the 1990s. LVM has rejected the decision…

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