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Alun Watkins Executive Director PEFC UK

PEFC’s Global Forest Certification Programme – Your Assurance of Responsible Sourcing

PEFC

Empowering smallholders & local constituencies

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• Founded in response to the specific requirements
• f small- and family forest owners
• Certification system of choice for smallholders
• Global, not-for-profit, NGO based in Geneva
• World's largest system with more than 60% of the

world’s certified forest area

• Alliance of national forest certification systems

Thinking Global and Acting Locally

Responsible Forest Management

• What it Delivers

Healthy Forests

• Maintain and increase the health and vitality of forest ecosystems, biodiversity
• Protect ecologically important forest areas, wildlife, waterways, and soil
• Prohibit forest conversions; no certification of plantations established by conversions
• Avoid genetically modified trees, most hazardous chemicals
• Prevent unauthorised activities such as illegal logging

Healthy Communities

• Promote the long term health and well-being of forest communities
• Respect forests’ multiple functions, give due regard to the role of forestry in rural development
• Involve forest communities, forest-dependent people in forest management
• Recognise indigenous people’s rights, incl. free, prior and informed consent
• Protect sites with recognised specific historical, cultural or spiritual significance
• Safeguard areas fundamental to meeting the basic needs of local communities

Healthy Workers

• Comply with all fundamental ILO conventions; safe working conditions
• Consideration of new opportunities for employment

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• Development of international standards
• Asessment & endorsement of national standards
• Promote market access & market recognition
• Collaborative impact projects to foster sustainable forestry & livelihoods

PEFC

Certification and more...

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PEFC Sustainability Benchmarks

National expectations Global expectations

PEFC-endorsed national standards

What is a PEFC Scheme?

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Technical Infrastructure

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ISO

ISO/IEC 17021 ISO/IEC 17065 ISO 19011 PEFC ST 1003:2018 PEFC ST 2002:2013 PEFC GD 2003:2012 National documentation ISO/IEC 17011 IAF Procedures ISO/IEC Guide 59 ISO Guide 82 ISO/IEC Guide 2 ISO/IEC 17007 PEFC ST 1001:2010 National documentation

Organisational Responsibility

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AB NGB CBs

Notifies

IAF PEFC

Issue certificates

AB NGB CBs

Companies and forest owners

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Notifies

IAF PEFC

via Group Certification

PEFC Governance

PEFC Membership (General Assembly)

• 50 National members
• 30 International Stakeholders members
• 5 Extraordinary members

PEFC Board of Directors

• 12 Directors (UN Agenda 21)
• Forest owners, forest industry, research,

indigenous people, NGO, labour…. PEFC Secretariat

• 13 Staff members in Geneva
• Supported by consultants globally

Standard Governance

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• Forest owners
• Business
• NGOs
• Scientific community
• International organisations
• Conformity assessment bodies

etc.

Standard Setter:

• Convener
• Coordinator
• Facilitator

PEFC built on multi-stakeholders engagement

INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL LOCAL

Bottom-Up Approach

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Standards Governance

Local Stakeholders

System Governance Verification

National Standards International Standards Local Constituencies National Forest Certification Systems PEFC General Assembly ISO/International Accreditation Forum

National Accreditation Body

Locally Notified Certification Body

• all national systems meet PEFC’s globally recognized Sustainability Benchmarks
• have a common identity on the global market
• but are locally owned, operated, developed and verified

National Standard

Multi- stakeholder process Consens- based decision making National public consultation Pilot testing

International Sustainability Benchmarks

Panel of Experts Board recommend- ation Independent assessment Global public consultation

Approval by members Revision required Application for assessment

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PEFC Bottom-Up approach to Sustainable Forest Management

Benefits of National Systems:

• Forests are highly diverse, as is their management, local

traditions and culture, average property sizes and support structures

• National forest certification systems, enable countries to tailor their

sustainable forest management requirements to their specific forest ecosystems, the legal and administrative framework, the socio-cultural context and other relevant factors

• National stakeholders have stronger engagement and increases access to

participation of standard setting and revision processes

• All National systems must meet all PEFC International requirements

These set out strict rules on what must be covered within national standards, but also what must be done during the development process

• Many National systems exceed our international requirements, going

even further to include additional, nationally relevant requirements.

PEFC alliance, for global availability 45 Endorsed National

systems National members in 51 countries More than 20,000 PEFC-certified companies in 71 countries Over 318 million hectares PEFC-certified ➔

60% share of all certified forests worldwide

Certified Forest Area by Country

Country Certified Area (ha) Argentina 246,717 Australia 11,355,779 Austria 3,027,112 Belarus 8,618,187 Belgium 300,999 Brazil 3,810,105 Canada (CSA) 33,533,849 Canada (SFI) 98,790,971 Chile 1,915,480 China 6,808,998 Czech Republic 1,776,882 Denmark 280,351 Estonia 1,238,453 Finland 18,037,840 France 7,975,755 Gabon 596,822 Germany 7,567,446 Indonesia 3,905,288 Ireland 376,108 Italy 819,175 Country Certified Area (ha) Japan 1,780,365 Latvia 1,717,511 Luxembourg 35,217 Malaysia 4,612,239 Netherlands 3,240 New Zealand 469,198 Norway 7,380,750 Poland 7,155,810 Portugal 277,356 Russia 22,490,931 Slovak Republic 1,216,491 Slovenia 286,000 Spain 2,222,593 Sweden 15,927,847 Switzerland 211,496 United Kingdom 1,502,143 USA (ATFS) 6,881,814 USA (SFI) 25,977,995 Uruguay 645,670 Total 311,776,983

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Defining Controversial Sources

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Illegal Harvesting

• Forest operations
• High environmental

values

• Protected &

endangered species

• Health & labour

issues of workers

• Property, tenure &

use rights

• Taxes, royalties,

trade & customs

GMO use

• Utilising genetically

modified forest-based

• rganisms

Conversion

• Converting forest to
• ther vegetation type
• Conversion of

primary forest to plantations

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PEFC’s Due Diligence System

The PEFC Due Diligence System applies to all certificate holders Reason: availability of tree-species and origin information

required at any point in PEFC Chain of Custody

Background

• PEFC's positioning in "legality and responsible sourcing"

issue

• No regional exception, same requirements for all
• Retailer/end-user feedback
• Unpredictable material flow between Europe and other areas

PEFC’s Due Diligence System

• Certified material NOT exempt from Due Diligence System
• Information on species and origin is required
• Certified material EXEMPT from Risk Assessment
• Applies to PEFC Certified & PEFC Controlled Sources
• PEFC claim demonstrates "negligible risk" by default
• Provided no substantiated comments / complaints were raised

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Public Sector Procurement

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Central Point of Expertise on Timber Timber Procurement Assessment Committee European Green Public Procurement EU Eco Label

UK Public Procurement CPET

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Source: Results of the Evaluation of Category A Evidence: Forest Certification Schemes (October 2015)

According to the CPET assessment reports, the certification systems comply with the CPET criteria as follows:

• FSC: 94%
• PEFC: 96%

Legal (100% from legal sources) Sustainable (>70% from sustainable sources) FSC All certified products Products containing >70% certified or recycled raw material PEFC All certified products Products containing >70% certified or recycled raw material

• Formalized methodology to evaluate

and compare standards and certification systems

• Based on WWF’s views and
• pinions
• Assesses in how far forest

certification systems are aligned with the mission and objectives of WWF

WWF Certification Assessment Tool (CAT)

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WWF Certification Assessment Tool (CAT)

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• “Standard Strength”: PEFC appreciates that WWF

finds its forest management standards closely aligned with WWF priorities (PEFC: 70%, FSC: 76%)

• “System Strength”: Indicates that the WWF CAT is not

well suited to capture PEFC’s approach to governance (Agenda 21) and conformity assessment (ISO/IAF) Different roads lead to Rome PEFC appreciates that WWF recognizes that PEFC delivers SFM in alignment with WWF priorities