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This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in the Latin American region.
- Register for the in-person meeting here
- Register for the plenary sessions through ZOOM:
Further details on logistics and registration will be circulated shortly and followed by a detailed agenda.
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in North America, including:
- FSC Global Strategic Plan & Implementation Framework
- FSC Priorities in North America
- General Assembly Update
- Thematic Discussions on topics including: solid wood market development; climate & ecosystem services; showcasing additional value for certificate holders and more.
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in Europe and CIS, including:
- FSC Global Strategy and Implementation Framework
- FSC Priorities in Europe and CIS
- General Assembly - motions process and preparation
- Thematic Interactive Discussions on topics including: climate & ecosystem, IFLs, Data, digitalization and supply chain integrity, etc.
… Agenda 2024 Highlights: A recap of key engagement activities with … and a forward-looking vision for FSC. … To close 2024, we invited members to FSC’s Year-End Member Meeting , which took place on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. This meeting reviewed this year’s collective …
… on: Introducing new Board members & Board compositions 2024 Decision record BM97 FSC Priorities 2024 Membership Engagement Plan 2024 & General Assembly 2025 Preparations End of the year …
FSC has opened the call for applications to join a working group to revise chain of custody standards based on results from the conceptual consultation. Apply from 11 December to 31 January 2025.
… visit FSC Connect . … FSC hosted a webinar on September 5, 2024, inviting members and stakeholders to discuss the …
The first ever FSC general assembly took place in 1996 in Mexico and has been held every three years since then, in different parts of the world. The 9th general assembly was postponed from its original date in 2020 and is now taking place in two parts. The first part took place in October 2021 as the first ever virtual general assembly event and the second part will take place in October 2022 as the first hybrid general assembly event in FSC’s history.
… the calendar to see the Membership-related events in 2024. To learn more and register, click on the event shown …
… also planned in 2025. … FSC hosted a webinar on 6 December 2024 where we introduced the joint revision process for the …
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As a multi-stakeholder initiative, FSC relies on its diverse array of stakeholders to help ensure the applicability, efficiency, and integrity of our global certification system. We have multiple documents currently available for public consultation that will change key components of FSC and are looking for your input through the FSC Consultation Platform.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is launching the 2nd public consultation on the revision of FSC-STD-50-001: Requirements for the Use of FSC® Trademarks by Certificate Holders.
FSC Members are invited to submit a proposal to host a side event at the FSC general assembly which can relate to a key FSC topic or motion.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in collaboration with Assurance Services International (ASI) launched a transaction verification (TV) loop on FSC-certified teak in June 2022.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) will begin phase one of a proposed two-phase multi-year learning process on genetic engineering (GE) in forestry outside of FSC certified area.
FSC is introducing changes to its Policy for Association (FSC-POL-01-004) (PfA). The changes established via version 3 of the PfA (PfA v3) were approved by the Board of Directors of FSC International (in accordance with its statutory authority to issue and define the PfA) and will come into effect on 1 January 2023.
All stakeholders are invited to comment on the draft of the FSC advice note on addressing deliberate false claims. The deadline for commenting is 17 February 2020.
Motion 12 was approved at the FSC General Assembly 2014 in Seville, Spain and called for a process to consider the challenges and opportunities for plantation restoration and conversion. Following its approval, a chamber-balanced working group drafted a proposal for potential solutions. Now FSC International invites all stakeholders who would like to contribute to the development of the conversion rules to join a consultative forum webinar with Motion 12 Working Group.
This Advice might not be comprehensive enough to regulate how species information is being collected and treated in FSC.
FSC has introduced transaction verification for all forests in China, covering FSC claims made between 1 January and 31 December 2019.
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The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations in plantations in Uruguay, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of Forest Stewardship Standards. Revisions of Forest Stewardship Standards are ongoing, and all existing standards will be transferred to the revised Principles & Criteria version 5-2. All standards are valid until replaced by a new Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations from smallholders in plantations in Vietnam, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards. Revisions of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards are ongoing, and all existing standards will be transferred to the revised Principles & Criteria version 5-2. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
FSC had decided to waive the Annual Administration Fee (AAF) for all types of certifications in Ukraine from Q2/2022 until the end of Q4/2024, regardless of their certification status.
In August 2024, FSC decided to reinstate the AAF for certifications in Ukraine starting 01 January 2025 in a phased approach.
This Advice Note serves to implement this decision.
Please note that the content of this normative document has been streamlined into FSC-STD-20-007 Forest Management Evaluations Standard (V4-0)
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.
Please note that the content of this normative document has been streamlined into FSC-STD-20-007 Forest Management Evaluations Standard (V4-0)
Publication date: 1 February 2023
Effective date: 1 July 2023
End of transition period: 31 December 2024
The social impacts of forest management mean that forest management is a social as a well as a technical activity. It is not possible to involve all stakeholders in every forest evaluation. It is therefore essential that forest certification and its results should be open to public scrutiny. This is the only way to demonstrate to all interested or affected parties that the certification decisions are justified and acceptable. It is a basic requirement of the FSC scheme that certification bodies make a summary report of each certified forest operation publicly available.
This document provides FSC’s formal interpretation of requirements included in FSC-STD-20-007. An updated version was published on 1 August 2024.
This guide is intended for organizations that wish to use the FSC trademarks for the promotion of FSC-certified labelled products or services and it replaces the FSC-STD-50-002 'Requirements for promotional use of the FSC trademarks by non-certificate holders' that was withdrawn on 31st May 2020.
FSC Remedy Framework defines permanent and effective measures required for remedy of harm caused by unacceptable activities as defined by the Policy for the Association of Organizations with FSC V2-0 or by conversion between 1 December 1994 and 31 December 2020.
Depending on when the unacceptable activity occurs/occurred, FSC will determine which policy version is used as the point of reference. If the unacceptable activity occurred prior to 2023, version 2-0 of the policy will be applied, whereas if the unacceptable activity occurs in 2023 or beyond, version 3-0 of the Policy for Association will be applied. To access Policy for Association, version 2-0, click here . The Policy for Association is an expression of the values shared by individuals and organizations associated with FSC. It defines six unacceptable activities that associated individuals and organizations and their corporate group commit to avoid in both certified and non-certified operations. The Policy for Association serves as a risk management tool for FSC, protecting the credibility and reputation of the FSC brand and organizations associated with it.
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