15. 森林问题合作伙伴关系关于精简与森林有关的报告工作队在 2002 年 7 月成立。自那时起，它开了两次会（2002 年 11 月在波恩，2003 年 2 月在大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国剑桥）。作为其第一个活动，工作对展开一个万维网为基础的“门户”，7 以便容易访问提交给伙伴关系工作对成员组织的国家报告、相应的报告格式和关于报告的有关工作的关键资料。该门户是要协助各国进行其与森林有关的报告工作，方法是作为关于森林的国家资料容易访问的来源。工作队还对成员组织的一切报告规定进行比较分析。它已查出可减少各国报告的负担的可能的机会。这些包括帮助各国在履行现有的报告规定方面减少工作的重复，拟订其成员对关于森林资源、森林产品和服务的资料的联合要求，以及政策和机构框架。工作队将继续努力查明可以精简的机会并协助使其生效。
15. The Collaborative Partnership on Forests Task Force on Streamlining Forest-related Reporting was established in July 2002. Since then, it has met twice (November 2002 in Bonn; and February 2003 in Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). As its first activity, the Task Force launched a web-based “portal”7 that provides easy access to national reports submitted to the Partnership Task Force member organizations, the corresponding reporting formats and key information on related efforts regarding reporting. The portal is intended to assist countries in their forest-related reporting efforts by serving as an easily accessible source of national information on forests. The Task Force has also undertaken a comparative analysis of all the reporting requirements of member organizations. It has identified potential opportunities to reduce the reporting burden on countries. These include ways to help countries reduce duplication of effort in fulfilling existing reporting requirements, and development of joint requests from its members for information on forest resources, forest products and services, and policy and institutional frameworks. The Task Force will continue to work to identify streamlining opportunities and to help put these into effect.