family of standards
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The FSC Family of Standards
Maria Inés Miranda
www.ssc-americas.com
Forest management
CoC
Controlled
Wood
Objectives
• Familiarize you with the standards available and the related documents
• How to choose the right standard?• How to combine different standards?
We want to go from here
FSC 10-001
FSC 30-010
FSC 40-005
FSC 40-004
To there!
FSC 40-004
FSC 10-001
FSC 40-005FSC 30-010
Main types of FSC documents
• Standards (STD)• Advice policies (ADV)
– provides clarification to certification bodies regarding their Surveillance activities
• Policies (POL)• Guidelines (GUI)
– provides guidance with carachter of normative• Manuals (MAN)• Procedure (PRO)
Standards
• Forest Management Unit (FMU)• Chain of Custody (CoC)
SFM CoC
Forest Management Unit
• FSC Principles and CriteriaFSC STD 01-001
• SLIMF eligibility criteriaFSC STD 01-003
• SLIMF eligibility criteria addendumFSC STD 01-003a
• FSC Controlled Wood standard for FM enterprises
FSC STD 30-010
Which standards use to certify the forest?
FMUSLIMF yes
no
Group Scheme (GroupCertification mechanism available in the Certification bodies)
FSC-STD-01-001
FSC STD 01-003
Apply a simplified version of FSC STD
01-001
If you dont want to certify your forest, and you want to sell your product to FSC
certified customers?
FMU FSC STD 30-010
Customer holding a FSC
CoC certificate
• Allows you to sell the logs as “controlled wood”.• No logo is allowed
Processing Chain
• FSC Standard for Chain of Custody certification
FSC STD 40-004
• FSC standard for company evaluation of controlled woodFSC STD 40-005
• FSC on-product labeling requirementsFSC STD-50-001 (V1-1)
• FSC CoC standard for Project CertificationFSC STD 40-006
“trazability
Avoid “non aceptable sources”
“Put label on products”
An example - How to combine the standards?
Controlled Forests
Non
certified forests
Certified Forests
FSC STD 30-010
Forest Company
FSC 40-004 (40-005)
Middelman
FSC 40-004 (40-005)
FSC 50-001
Certified products
Controllled products
Secondary Wood
Industry
FSC STD 01-001