Romania, which contains some of Europe’s most important old-growth forests, passed a law in 2021 stipulating that every single truckload of wood or timber products must be photographed and recorded in the new electric tracking system — known as SUMAL — to ensure that no trees could be logged without permission and oversight.¹⁾

The ability to trace commercial wood back to the forest it came from is key to combating illegal logging, a major problem in the country in recent decades, said Ciprian Gălușcă, the coordinator of Greenpeace Romania's forest and biodiversity campaign.²⁾