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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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FSC Search BETA

The FSC Search BETA is a preview of FSC’s new online search facility, where stakeholders can access a range of important information and data about FSC certificates and other information resources. 

FSC stakeholders are invited to try out the FSC Search BETA, and we invite stakeholders to provide feedback to support improving the usability and quality of information in the new search facility. 

FSC Search BETA - Interface Highlight

What happens next?

Try the new FSC Search BETA today!  We're developing and testing new features continuously, but at the same time, it is of great importance to hear what's your experience and opinion on the new FSC Search. 

Your feedback will help us optimize the user experience and functionalities of the new FSC Search. Once we're finished implementing all the changes and correcting issues, also considering your suggestions and feedback, the new FSC Search will replace the FSC Certificates Public Dashboard, planned for 20 March 2023. 

Our goal in releasing the BETA version is to support rapid learning from feedback and agile IT feature development, and it’s important to note that your feedback may not receive a resolution immediately.  Some issues require considerable engineering and investigation work to resolve, and it can take time for those updates to make their way into the FSC Search BETA.  New features and known issues are outlined below, and as new features and improvements are defined and available, we’ll update this information until we have a final version available.

The following lists highlight the current features available for stakeholders to evaluate, the features that are coming soon, known issues, and feedback gathered.  This information was last updated, 7 March 2023.

Current Features of FSC Search Beta

  • Availability to search more data (Project Certificates, Promotional License Holders) 
  • New functionalities to save and download Certificate details
  • Bug fixes for search filters, pagination of results, and display
  • Search by product type eg. paper, food, packaging, etc, or by tree species, or even by Country/Area
  • A fresh user interface with simple and advanced search choices 
  • Newly organized Certificate Details pages 
  • Data availability (Certificate finder, but check back for new features listed below under "Coming Soon")
  • Interfaces that match your screen size and positioning (mobile, tablet, PC) 
  • Under-the-hood data infrastructure for speed and security

Coming Soon

The following features currently being tested, including the Apps (iOS and Google Play).

  • User interfaces in more languages (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian) 
  • New information resources to search (FSC Normative documents, Impact and other resources) 
  • FSC Search Apps for mobile and tablet on the Google Play and iOS App stores 

Improvements Implemented

Thanks to the feedback from our stakeholders and the hard work of our engineers, we are pleased to announce the following improvements are currently available to try out on the FSC Search BETA: 

  • Corrections to labels in English and Spanish 
  • Corrected functionality to see information on lists of “Products” or “Group member / sites” that have 10 or more items 
  • Date information are now displayed in a more user-friendly format 
  • Misalignment of page graphics when a user types text in the search field 

Known Issues

  • Intermittent display issues when searching for a specific tree species or product type
  • Various minor user-interface glitches (page moves off center with certain user interactions) 
  • ”back to results” link takes user to homepage instead of back to results list after user views a result from a simple search that has five or fewer results 
  • “Role” of organization is listed as “Unknown” and the certificate details page does not display 

Features Under Review

Based on feedback received, the following features are under review for future enhancements:

  • Print function of certificate detail page
  • Search by former certificate code
  • Subscribe to FSC Developer API
  • CB details (full name)
  • Open certificate details in new window
  • Show contact details of certified company
  • For the FSC App, scan the code with camera