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Saija Hotti
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Title

Policy for the Association of Organizations with FSC (PfA)

Code

FSC-POL-01-004

Type

Policy

Purpose

To protect the FSC brand from reputational risk resulting from organizations associated with FSC being involved in activities that contradict the core values of FSC.

Objective(s)

To equip FSC with a safeguard against organizations accountable for unacceptable activities.

Technical Working Group Members

Ricardo Camargo Cardoso, Forest Certification Coordinator, Imaflora (Brazil)

Karen Kirkman, Environmental Consultant, KE Kirkman Consulting (South Africa)

Andrew Ng, Partner, Grassroots Consulting (Malaysia)

Karen Steer, Senior Manager, Rainforest Alliance (USA)

Happy Tarumadevyanto, Forest Certification, Stakeholder Engagement and Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Alastair Fraser Forestry Foundation (Indonesia)

Related Process

This Technical Working Group will build on the previous work done from the Working Group in 2014-2017 found here. 

Related ongoing processes:

Terms of Reference_Policy for Association Technical Working Group
PDF, Size: 342.37KB
Application Form_TWG_PfA
DOCX, Size: 963.05KB

Updates

October 2021

The second public consultation on the FSC Policy for Association opens until 2 December 2021. You can send your feedback through the FSC Consultation Platform in English or Spanish. 

If you would like more information before filling out your responses, we are holding webinars that will go through the main proposals of this revision:

Wednesday 10 November 2021,10:00-11:00 CET (English)

Thursday 11 November 2021,16:00-17:00 CET (English)    

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 10:00-11:00 CET (English)    

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:00 CET (Spanish)

 

July 2021

The public consultation is now closed.  The round of technical working group meetings. 

May 2021

The public consultation on the FSC Policy for Association opens until 17 July 2021. You can send your feedback through the FSC Consultation Platform in English or Spanish. 

A recording of the webinar taking you through the proposed changes is available here.

February 2021

The consultative forum for the revision of the Policy for Association is open. Submit your information here to participate

December 2020

Technical working group established

October 2020

Applications received for participation in the technical working group