Plantation registration
Smallholder and commercial plantations registered against land tenure, ownership and authority documentation.
TLAS-IMS
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry · Department of Forest Inspection
The national system of record for legal plantation timber in Lao PDR
System capabilities
A single institutional platform covering the plantation timber supply chain, from the registration of forest resources to the verification of processed products.
Parcel mapping
Georeferenced boundaries in WGS84, validated for overlap with existing registrations and protected areas.
Forest inventory
Enumeration and sample plot measurement with species-based volume estimation as the harvest baseline.
Mill registration
Processing facilities registered with operating licences, environmental compliance and enterprise records.
Transport documentation
Delivery notes issued and verified from loading at origin through to receipt and acceptance at the mill.
Supply chain reconciliation
Volume balancing across every control point, with tolerance thresholds set by the competent authority.
GS1 traceability
Global identification keys, open data carriers and EPCIS event sharing applied across the entire chain of custody.
Legality verification
Rule-based determination of legality status for each registered entity, consignment and product batch.
Corrective action
Non-conformities issued with due dates, closed only on verified evidence by an authorised officer.
From stump to sale
Each stage of the supply chain is documented by the responsible party and reviewed by the competent authority before timber can progress to the next stage.
- 01
Register
Plantations and mills are registered, mapped and verified by the competent authority.
- 02
Document
Harvest, transport and processing events are recorded against the responsible registered entity.
- 03
Reconcile
Declared volumes are balanced between origin, transport, mill intake and output.
- 04
Verify
Legality status is determined, published to authorised users and retained for audit.
GS1 conformant
Built on the GS1 Global Traceability Standard
TLAS-IMS implements the GS1 Global Traceability Standard, Release 2.0, in full and without deviation. Every traceable object, party, location and evidence document in the national timber supply chain is identified with a GS1 identification key, marked with an open GS1 data carrier, and shared as EPCIS visibility event data using the GS1 Core Business Vocabulary.
This makes the legality record of Lao timber machine-readable and interoperable with the due diligence systems of importers, certification bodies and partner customs authorities — without bilateral data mapping.
- 5 dimensions
- What, when, where, why and how recorded for every event
- 1 up / 1 down
- Full custody chain retrievable from any single identifier
- Batch/lot precision
- Products identified by GTIN plus lot ID (LGTIN)
GS1 identification keys applied
Allocated by the competent authority at the point of registration or issuance.
- GLNGlobal Location Number for every plantation parcel, mill, checkpoint and legal entity.
- SSCCSerial Shipping Container Code for every timber load moved under a delivery note.
- GTIN + lotGlobal Trade Item Number with batch/lot identification for every processed product.
- GSIN / GINCShipment and consignment identification for consolidated export despatches.
- GDTIGlobal Document Type Identifier for every permit, licence and certificate held as evidence.
- EPCIS / CBVCritical tracking events shared as standard visibility event data.
Data capture uses GS1-128, GS1 DataMatrix, GS1 Digital Link QR and EPC/RFID; data sharing uses the EPCIS 2.0 query interface with access scoped by GLN ownership.
Assurance and governance
The system is designed to withstand institutional audit, independent verification and the due diligence requirements of import markets.
Evidence before status
No entity attains a legality status without supporting documentation recorded with its reference number, issuing authority, validity period and cryptographic file hash.
Controlled access and accountability
Duties are separated across mandated roles, access is scoped by jurisdiction, privileged accounts require multi-factor authentication, and every action is written to an immutable audit trail.
Operational in the field
Registration, boundary capture, inventory measurement and mill receipts continue to function without connectivity and synchronise securely once a network is available.