This guidance document is intended for use by certification bodies of these social standards systems in order to aid in the verification of payment of living wages where country-specific estimates have been prepared under the Anker Methodology.
The overall purpose of this document is to provide guidance to FSC National Initiatives, national or sub-national standard writing groups and certification bodies when developing FSC forest stewardship standards.
This standard is mandatory for all FSC certificate holders who are entitled to use the FSC trademarks and sets out how to use the FSC trademarks correctly. The standard covers use of the FSC trademarks on FSC certified products, use for promotion of FSC certified products, and for promotion of the company's status as an FSC certificate holder. This standard forms the basis for evaluation and approval by FSC accredited certification bodies of all certificate holders' FSC trademark use.