
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:
In this session, members had the opportunity to discuss with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions for this discussion were:
We hosted two identical sessions to accommodate different time zones.
In this session, members had the opportunity to start the discussion with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions for this discussion were:
We hosted two identical sessions to accommodate different time zones.
In this session, members had the opportunity to debate with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions for this discussion were:
We hosted two identical sessions to accommodate different time zones.
The new round of transaction verification for okoume will cover FSC claims made between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The deadline for certificate holders to submit requested transaction verification data is 29 September 2020.
In June 2022, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Assurance Services International (ASI) launched the third transaction verification (TV) loop on bamboo supply chains to proactively find out if there are any integrity risks that need to be addressed.
In preparation for the FSC General Assembly 2017, FSC International members are invited to attend FSC regional meetings.
FSC is updating the Lists of FSC Highly Hazardous Pesticides based on the existing criteria, indicators, thresholds and sources through an accelerated revision process as described in FSC-PRO-01-001 The Development and Revision of FSC Requirements.
FSC is extending a call for applications until 14 April 2020. We are still seeking candidates for a technical working group to develop a risk-based approaches (RBA) assurance system for forest management certification. They will also finalize the revision of the RBA procedure and guideline.
The first draft of the standard FSC-STD-60-004a FSC International Generic Indicators for the use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides is now available for public consultation until 01 April 2020 and can be accessed here. We invite all stakeholders to provide feedback.
We are seeking FSC chamber members and technical experts with knowledge and experience in forest management and controlled wood for the working group tasked with revising the FSC Controlled Wood Standard for Forest Management Enterprises. The call for applications will be open from 17 December 2019 to 17 January 2020.
In light of possible concerns pertaining to the COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact on international travel, we are sharing several important updates related to upcoming FSC events.
The National Forest Stewardship Standard (NFSS) of Malaysia has been updated and is now available in the FSC Document Centre.