These meetings to launch the electronic ballot to vote on the Statutory Requirements of FSC are crucial for the success of the Virtual General Assembly.
Agenda
The documents are available here:
These meetings took place via Zoom. Simultaneous translation to English, Spanish, and French was available.
You can find the recordings here:
Morning Session:
Evening Session:
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in the Africa region.
The BoD Elections 2023 have been announced. Each FSC member was invited to vote for six candidates to join the FSC International Board of Directors. View the results here.
Over 90 participants from Africa joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
Over 70 participants from Asia-Pacific joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
In this session, we launched the agenda for the Motion Discussions in 2022 and we presented the results of the Prioritization Survey for the discussion of FSC Policy Motions 2022.
Our members also had the opportunity to start the discussion with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions that were discussed in this session are:
In both global events, we presented the voting prioritization survey results, the agenda for the launch of the Statutory Requirements, an overview of all the motion discussions in 2020/2021, and the next steps of the motions process. Additionally, members were able to ask questions regarding the upcoming activities towards the Virtual GA 2021.
You can find the recordings here:
Morning Session:
Evening Session:
This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in Asia-Pacific.
This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in Africa. The following topics have so far been recommended for the agenda:
We are happy to announce that the Implementation Framework 2023 Reporting is now available for FSC members.
FSC is offering several ways for members to engage and stay informed as we head into 2025.
The candidates for the Board of Directors (BoD) 2025 election have been announced. As part of the election campaign, we will be hosting two webinars where candidates will present their proposals and engage with members in a Q&A session.
We are excited to announce that the new FSC General Assembly 2025 website is now live! You can access it directly at https://ga.fsc.org/en
The FSC General Assembly 2025 is fast approaching, and we invite our members to play an active role by hosting a Side Meeting! Apply here
The Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) Board of Directors has decided to hold the next FSC general assembly in Panama City, Panama, from 26–31 October 2025.
In 2021, six members of the FSC International Board of Directors will be replaced (or re-elected). FSC International is calling for candidates to nominate themselves by 31 January.
Publication date: 1 February 2023
Effective date: 1 July 2023
End of transition period: 31 December 2024
The following requirements aim to ensure that the certification body decision making entity has sufficient information on which to base its decisions with respect to conformity with FSC forest stewardship standards, and to help FSC ensure that there is consistency in decision making between different certification bodies.
