PEFC Standards Revision: Standard Setting
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This webinar presents and discusses the draft revised requirement for standard setting, which have been modified as part of PEFC's Standards Revision process.
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- 1. Stakeholder seminar Revision of PEFC requirements Part 1: standard setting Geneva, Switzerland (1st June 2010)
- 3. Global Challenges for Certification PEFC Stakeholder Dialogue Geneva 1 st June 2010 Ben Gunneberg PEFC Council Secretary General
- 6. Challenge 2: Distribution of certification 180 million ha, 56% of world’s certified forests 82 million ha, 26% of world’s certified forests CIS = Commonwealth of independent states Source: UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2008-2009
- 17. PEFC Standard Setting - Requirements PEFC ST 1001:200X (ED 1.0) Jaroslav Tymrak PEFC Council Head of Technical Unit
- 25. Questions and answers Participate in online consultation: www.pefc.org , click on Get involved - Public consultations
Editor's Notes
- We do need to realize that only 8% of the world's forest are certified. This corresponds to 26% of the global industrial round wood production. And if you think that 26% does sound like a lot, keep in mind that it has taken the two global certification organisations almost 20 years to get to this level. What's more, according to the UN, the rate of increase in global certified forest area has slowed dramatically since 2006.
- There's more to this problem: More than 80% of today's certification happens in Western Europe and North America, regions where forest management has been traditionally quite responsible, with strong forest legislation and law enforcement. Forest certification has not made much progress in certifying tropical forests – and you may recall that this was the primary objective when forest certification was first set up. Tropical forests is where forest certification can really make a difference, and the challenge is to make certification relevant there. We do need to look closely at why forest certification has not succeeded there, and how we can better adapt our approaches to certifying forests in these areas. There's also an additional challenge: More and more public and private procurement policies require sustainable timber – which essentially excludes timber from the Global South, given that only small parts there are certified. How can we expand certification in the Global South?
- Forests are very important for life. Sustainable forests are vitally important and do make a difference to life.
- PEFC relies on Nationally developed standards. In addition to the specific requirements of forest management procedures or practices, PEFC all sets Standards to guide the process of standard development. In this Standard Setting requirement document: PEFC outlines requirements for the Standardising Body (dev std at national level); the standard setting process itself; and requirements for the revision of standards.
- Following the decision from 10/11/2010 the standard setting requirements will apply to the development of forest management and chain of custody standards. The issue can be revised based on feedback from public consultation The process includes a “special effort” engagements of disadvantaged and critical stakeholders for success and credibility. Standard setting process includes: (i) identification of stakeholders, (ii) invitation of stakeholders and announcement of the start of the process, (iii) setting a WG/Committee, (iv) work, consideration of comments within the WG/Committee, (v) consensus building, (vi) public consultation, (vii) formal approval.