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Document purpose/background
  1. FSC-STD-01-001 V5-3: The FSC Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship are the essential rules or elements of environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable forest management, and the Criteria provide the means of judging whether or not a Principle has been fulfilled. They are the foundation of the FSC certification scheme.
  2. FSC-STD-60-004 V2-1: The International Generic Indicators are a set of indicators that address each normative element of each Criterion in the FSC Principles & Criteria Version 5-3 (P&C V5-3). They are the common starting point for the development and transfer of all Regional and National Forest Stewardship Standards in the FSC system, including Interim National Standards.
  3. FSC-POL-10-004 V1-0: This document clarifies the scope of application of FSC-STD-01-001 FSC Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship that includes natural forests, plantations and other (i.e. non-forest) vegetation types.
  4. FSC-POL-20-003 V1-0: This document was developed to provide a mechanism to “excise” or remove a defined area or areas from the scope of FSC certification.
  5. FSC-DIR-20-007 Vn/a: The objective of this document is to standardize understanding and implementation of the requirements by certification bodies and certificate holders.
Process objective(s)

This major revision aims to update the FSC Lists of Highly Hazardous Pesticides according to the criteria, indicators, thresholds and sources of information provided by FSC in the FSC-POL-30-001 V3-0 FSC Pesticides Policy.

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Get involved

Please contact Sandra Fahd, at forestmanagement@fsc.org

Timeline

October 2024

29 October: Kick off the process.