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.
The objective of this document is to provide a transparent procedure for transaction verification. Transaction verification is one of the certification activities carried out by accredited certification bodies and Assurance Services International to safeguard the integrity of the FSC system and address integrity risks in relevant supply chains.