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FSC Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship
FSC-STD-01-001
FSC is an international organization that provides a system for voluntary accreditation and independent third-party certification. This system allows certificate holders to market their products and services as the result of environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable forest management. FSC also sets standards for the development and approval of FSC Stewardship Standards which are based on the FSC Principles and Criteria. In addition, FSC sets standards for the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies (also known as certification bodies) that certify compliance with FSC's standards. Based on these standards, FSC provides a system for certification for organizations seeking to market their products as FSC certified. Version 4-0 is still applicable to those territories which have FSC certified forests but do not have Forest Stewardship Standards based on Version 5-0. Version 4-0 is available for download here: FSC-STD-01-001 Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship V4-0
Process Requirements for the Development and Maintenance of National Forest Stewardship Standards
FSC-STD-60-006
This standard specifies the process requirements to be followed for the development and revision of regional (supra-national, trans-national), national or sub-national FSC Forest Stewardship Standards by registered Standards Development Groups and endorsed National Initiatives.
The FSC Forest Stewardship Standard for Chinese Taipei
FSC-STD-TWN-01-2023 EN
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations in Chinese Taipei, 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.
Standard for evaluation of FSC Controlled Wood in Forest Management Enterprises
FSC-STD-20-012
This standard is designed to provide a credible guarantee that all forest management units (FMUs) included in the scope of a FSC Controlled Wood certificate comply with the requirements of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood standards for forest management enterprises FSC-STD-30-010 (Version 2-0).
Stakeholder Consultation for Forest Evaluations
FSC-STD-20-006
This standard is designed to give certification bodies and stakeholders more clarity as to the nature and extent of stakeholder consultation required for evaluation of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards.
FSC Glossary of Terms
FSC-STD-01-002
This Glossary is a collection of the most frequently used terms and definitions that have been approved and are used in documents of the FSC Normative Framework, published in the English language.
Chain of Custody Evaluations
FSC-STD-20-011
An older version of this normative document exists. To open the old version, please click here .The objective of this standard is to provide the requirements to be followed by FSC accredited certification bodies (CBs) when auditing CoC organizations against applicable requirements of the FSC normative framework and integrating the findings to come to a reliable certification decision. This standard thereby aims to reduce the level of subjectivity and increase the consistency between sampling levels implemented by different CBs across different situations.
General requirements for FSC accredited certification bodies
FSC-STD-20-001
This standard specifies the accreditation requirements for all certification bodies operating FSC accredited certification programs. The objective of this standard is to ensure that these programs are managed in a competent, consistent, impartial, transparent, rigorous, reliable and credible manner, thereby facilitating their acceptance on a national and international basis and so furthering international trade and promoting sustainable development.
SLIMF Eligibility Criteria
FSC-STD-01-003
This standard shall be used by all FSC-accredited certification bodies and FSC-accredited National Initiatives for the purpose of defining small and low intensity managed forests (SLIMFs) eligible for application of streamlined certification procedures.
Forest Management Evaluations
FSC-STD-20-007
The objective of this standard is to provide the requirements for FSC-accredited certification bodies to assess conformity of The Organization against applicable requirements of the FSC normative framework with regards to forest management certification, as well as reporting and decision making.
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Normative Document
  1. FSC-STD-60-006 V1-2 Process Requirements for the development and maintenance of National Forest Stewardship Standards;
  2. FSC STD-60-002 V1-0 Structure and Content of National Forest Stewardship Standards;
  3. FSC-PRO-60-006 V2-0 Development and Transfer of National Forest Stewardship Standards to the FSC Principles and Criteria Version 5-1, and
  4. FSC-PRO-60-007 V1-2 Structure, Content and Development of Interim National Standards
Background

The period of validity for all four documents has expired. Several factors and processes drive the revision of these requirements, including FSC Global Strategy and the current requirements for the revision of normative documents. The FSC Global Strategy requires outcome orientation, streamlining and data driven approach to be incorporated in the requirements for FSS development. Additionally, in the regular review process the Performance and Standards Unit (PSU), the Forest Management Community (FMC) and other stakeholders have found around 53 specific issues to be revised, e.g. inconsistency, redundancy and lack of clarity in the requirements for Forest Stewardship Standards

Process objectives

The objectives of the revision process are to:

1. Improve the quality of the FSS, their relevance, understandability, completeness, simplicity, user-friendliness while ensuring overall consistency with the FSC Normative Framework;

2. Incorporate outcome orientation (including monitoring and evaluation as well as data requirement) in the FSS process; and

3. Increase the efficiency and reliability of FSS development and maintenance processes.

Process lead

Cynthia Penaloza, nationalstandards@fsc.org 

Technical Working Group

Fernanda Rodrigues, Brazilian Forests Dialogue 

Aidas Pivoriūnas, FSC Lithuania 

Yadid Ordoñez, FSC Latin America 

Owen Davies, FSC UK

Get involved

You can stay informed of the developments on this revision process by staying tuned to this process page and by participating in public consultations and webinars. 

Timeline

History

A summary of steps taken and process to date

History
22-23 September 2022

Kick-off meeting of the revision process and first TWG intensive meeting are held.  

26 April - 7 June 2022

FSC launched a call for applicants for technical working group members. 

15 March 2022

The FSC Board of Directors approves the full revision of four normative documents  through a technical working group.

December 2021

The Policy and Standards Committee agrees with the recommendations of review report and supports revision.

September 2021 - October 2021

Review report draft 1-0 for 30 days public consultation in FSC Consultation Platform from September 13 to 12 October 2021.

 

July 2021 - August 2021

Internal stakeholder review for preparation of review report and identification of alignment needs.

60-Series Privacy-Statement_WG-Members
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60series_PSU_Review-Report-2021-11-19.pdf
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60seriesToR-TWG_Revision of requirements to develop FSS
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60seriesTWG_Requirements for FSS_Application-form_April22
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