Interinstitutional Secretariat for the Implementation of the FLEGT‑VPA (SIIAVA) At the strategic level, the State of Honduras, through an appropriate legal instrument, will create the Interinstitutional Secretariat for the Implementation of the FLEGT‑VPA (SIIAVA) comprising representatives of the public sector actors linked to the LAS. This body will provide a space for dialogue and coordination that will enable the implementation of the LAS. In the SIIAVA, public institutions will coordinate their actions in order to implement the verification mechanisms set out in Annex II and Annex V to this Agreement, and so ensure the application of the law in the specific areas included in the definition of legality and in the LAS. These institutions must have the capacities, resources and means required to monitor and implement the LAS and must therefore build the capacity of the staff at the institutions and government departments responsible for its application. Accordingly, Annex VIII includes a specific supplementary measure on the SIIAVA. To verify compliance with and monitoring of both application of the indicators in the legality matrices and the requirements of the LAS, the institutions forming part of the SIIAVA will report periodically to the SIIAVA and to the Technical Committee, if applicable, on the progress of development and implementation of the LAS and of the challenges encountered. The SIIAVA will take into account these periodic reports by the institutions involved in the LAS, as well as data and information on the LAS provided by these institutions’ various units and information systems. To address systematic non‑compliance with the requirements laid down in Annex II and Annex V to this Agreement that results in environmental crimes, the SIIAVA will analyse the results of other mechanisms in place at the ICF and other institutions involved in the LAS. These mechanisms include mobile units and permanent checkpoints, the National Interinstitutional Security Force (FUSINA) and the Interinstitutional Task Force against Environmental Crime (FTIA), which will receive support from the national preventive police, Special Environmental Prosecution Service, the Attorney‑General’s Office and the Honduran armed forces, among others. In addition, the SIIAVA will receive and will take into account the social oversight reports drawn up by the CONADEH, CCF and civil society, as well as the complaints filed by the various actors regarding the functioning of the LAS and which have not been sett...
