Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood

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PEFC Council, asbl.
PEFC Council International Perspectives
Presentation by Mr Jaroslav Tymrak PEFC Council
Technical Expert
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Background
Certified forests in the world by scheme
(Source PEFC, FSC, SFI, ATFS, CSA as at February
2003)
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info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Background
Changes in Forest Cover per year (Annual
reduction 9.10 Million hectares 1990-2000 )
Source FAO June 2001
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info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Background
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Expectation from the Market
Consumers Opportunity to support SFM through
purchase of labelled products from certified
forests

• Forest owners and industry
• Recognition of environmental acceptability of
  their forest management and products
• Improving environmental image of the company
• Improving environmental image of the whole sector

Society Opportunity to find solutions to
societal problems
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
PEFC Framework for Development and Mutual
Recognition of National Forest certification
Schemes including Chain of Custody
Defines requirements for development of national
forest certification schemes
Provides assessment and mutual recognition of
independent national forest certification schemes
Provides common PEFC Logo for labelling of
products originating from certified forest
mutually recognised by the PEFC Council
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
PEFC Council members
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
PEFC Basic Principles
PEFC Council
Regional Political Processes for SFM
Subsidiarity and Independence of National Schemes
Normal certification and accreditation procedures
Multi-stakeholder process
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Chain of Custody certification (C-o-C) applies
to all the changes in the custodianship of forest
products from forest to end use. C-o-C
certification verifies content of wood from
certified forests used in the product production.
C-o-C certification cannot be implemented for the
whole chain but is applied separately in each
single company (link of the chain)
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC Council, asbl.

• PEFC basic approaches for C-o-C certification
• Physical separation
• Inventory Control and Accounting of Wood Flow
  (percentage methods INPUT/OUPUT, Minimum
  Average Percentage method)

Physical separation
Percentage methods
Certified forests
Other forests
Certified forests
Other forests

Company
Company

Products from certified forest
Other products
Batch of products including x wood from
certified forests
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania
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PEFC development in 1999 - 2002
PEFC has become the worlds largest umbrella
for forest certification
PEFC Council members represents schemes from 25
countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Norvay, Portugal, Slovakia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, UK) And
increasing number of countries are interested in
the PEFC Council membership
13 national forest certification schemes mutually
recognised
Over 46,6 million hectares of certified forests,
over 500 chain of custody certificates and more
than 6000 PEFC Logo users
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
FLEGT/Illegal logging Meeting 13 December 2002,
Brussels
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PEFC Council, asbl.
Conclusion
Forest certification is todays reality. It
brings SFM
improvement and benefits to market players
PEFC
respects and adheres to the regional
political processes on SFM
PEFC
operates a a bottom up process respecting
principles of
subsidiarity
and independency
PEFC
uses normal certification and accreditation
procedures
PEFC
is the largest forest certification umbrella
Promoting Sustainable Forest Management More
info www.pefc.org
Seminar on Strategies for the Sound Use of Wood
24-27 March 2003, Romania