an additional problem associated with the sale of standing timber is the incorrect evaluation of the harvested timber and poor recording and monitoring of harvesting and removals the current timber sale methods do not give equal access to forest resources to all sectors due to the existing competitive auction system and to the lack of availability of the results of all timber sales in the context of forest europe the ministerial conference on the protection of forests in europe the ministry of forestry regularly takes part in expert meetings on the preparations for the ministerial conferences and contributes to the work on paneuropean indicators for sustainable forest management and the state of europe s forests report