PEFC Newsletter 26 July 2005

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Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certif ication Schemes No 26 July 2005

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IN THIS ISSUE

§ PEFC creates optionfor recycled material

§ UPM field-testscertification systems

§ Internationalcooperage SeguinMoreau offers PEFCcertified barrels

§ PEFC NationalSecretaries seminar

§ UK Governmentcontinues to recognizePEFC certified timber

§ Manufacturers ofstationery apply forPEFC membership

§ SFI applies for PEFCendorsement

§ Publishers choosePEFC certification

§ Tetra Pak includes

PEFC pallets in its“green supply chain”

§ PEFC Statistics

§ Reports from thePEFC NationalMember Countries

PEFC creates option for recycled materialThe PEFC Council has decided to makeavailable an additional option for the users of

PEFC certification, who wish to communicate the

content of recycled material in their products. For

further details see the PEFC Council Press

Release of 22 June 2005 and the PEFC Council

Documentationsection at www.pefc.org.

PEFC systems with good results in parallelfield-testing of forest certification standards

others for their functionality and practical differences in the abovecountries. The study was undertaken by UPM-Kymmene and an

independent consultant (Det Norske Veritas) carried out the auditing.

WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) acted as an external observer andprovided technical advice to the process.

Results of the study showed that while some of the standards had criteria

that were difficult to understand or to interpret, the field-tested PEFCendorsed systems FFCS and UKWAS were mentioned for their clearness

and functionality.

The final report also concluded that “based on the knowledge and experience gained in the field test, UPM considers that FSC Draft Finland,

FFCS, FSC Sweden, SFI and UKWAS achieved their objective of

promoting the economic, social and environmental management of forests

in a balanced way .” Details of the study are available at www.upm-

kymmene.com.

Results from a recent parallel field-testing of different

forest certification systems, carried out in forestsmanaged by the global company UPM-Kymmene in

Canada, Finland and the UK, were announced recently.

Six certification standards, namely SFI in Canada, FSCMaritimes; Finnish Forest Certification System (FFCS);

FSC Draft Finland, FSC Sweden and the UK Woodland

Assurance Standards (UKWAS) were tested amongst



PEFC Newsletter - Promoting Sustainable Forest Management For more info: www.pefc.org ( ) For full details of news, press releases, reports etc. see website above

No 26 – July 2005

New wine in new PEFC certifiedbarrels

“The Best Barrels Make the Best Wines” says the Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage, Americanbranch of Seguin Moreau on its website. Its

international headquarters in Cognac in France has

just set out to prove this also for its responsiblesourcing of timber, offering wooden barrels with

PEFC certification. Starting with the year 2005

production, many of the world’s finest wines and

spirits will now mature in PEFC certified oak

barrels.

The International cooperage

Seguin Moreau, which hasbranches in Australia, Chile

and the USA, received itsPEFC Chain of Custody

certification in early 2005. In its

press release announcing itsdecision for PEFC certification, Seguin Moreau

said that by choosing PEFC certification it wants

to “confirm its leadership in responsible and sustainable management of timber resources

and offer an opportunity to its clients to make the

same choice .”

For many years Seguin

Moreau has included

newest scientific research

in its production process

and in an ongoing

partnership with the Bordeaux Faculty ofOenology, has succeeded in shedding new light

on the interactions between wood and wine. This

research, the first of its kind, helped to highlight

the importance of oenological criteria in theselection of forest trees, the benefits of controlled

maturing of the wood outdoors, the nature of theconstituents obtained during barrel toasting and

the ways in which they blend with those of the

wine during the process of ageing.

Following its tradition of making barrels “that are

controlled at every stage of their production ”,

Seguin Moreau has chosen PEFC as a central

element in its production process, to offer wine-

makers around the world a unique

choice for producing trulypersonalized wines.

For information on SeguinMoreau please see www.seguin-moreau.fr.

PEFC National Secretariesexplore future opportunities offorest certification globally

National Secretaries of the PEFC Council

member countries met for a training, information

and experience exchange seminar in Lisbon,

Portugal in May 2005.

National Secretaries from the PEFC member countriesduring their annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal

Topics included current and future promotion and

communication activities of PEFC globally and inthe member countries, the use of the PEFC logo

and recent developments on the inclusion ofPEFC in governments’ public procurement

policies.

Experiences on the new international PEFCChain of Custody and strategic issues for future

planning of PEFC activities were discussed.

The meeting was hosted by PEFC Portugal and

praised as very successful by the participants.




No 26 – July 2005

UK Government TimberProcurement Policy continues

to recognize PEFC certifiedtimber

Readers will recall that

following an extraordinary

General Assembly vote in

April, PEFC submitted

changes to its certification

procedures to the UKGovernment (DEFRA) to ensure PEFC certified

timber satisfies the government’s requirements

for “legal and sustainable” timber. Thesubmission was to allow a reassessment of

PEFC to take place before the expiry of a May

deadline set for schemes to meet thegovernment’s requirements.

The changes made were a result of direct talks

with the UK Government, the Central Point ofExpertise on Timber (CPET) and the experts

involved (See PEFC Council Press Release 12

April 2005) and were subsequently assessed by

CPET.

In a press release in June, Environment Minister

Elliot Morley said: “I want to announce the results

of these assessments as quickly as possible, but

some stakeholders are understandably keen to

understand how the results were arrived at and what the implications are for forest management.

Government officials will meet representatives of

UK ENGOs to discuss their concerns prior to an announcement .” Minister Morley also praised the

flexibility of the systems being reassessed: “The

speed with which PEFC and SFI responded to our initial assessment was impressive .”

In the meantime the Government will continue to

accept PEFC endorsed schemes “as assurance of legal and sustainable timber sources .”

For the complete DEFRA Press Release see

www.defra.gov.uk.

Stationery manufacturers applyfor PEFC membership

MECSEA, the European Association of

Manufacturers of Educational and Commercial

Stationery, has applied to become anExtraordinary Member of the PEFC Council. The

PEFC Board of Directors has decided to

recommend the PEFC Council member countriesto vote in favour of the application at their next

General Assembly in October 2005.

Extraordinary membership in the PEFC Councilis open to international organisations, which

support the objectives of the PEFC Council.Currently the following organisations are

Extraordinary Members of the PEFC Council:

Confederation of European Forest Owners

(CEPF) Confederation of European Paper

Industries (CEPI) European Confederation ofWoodworking Industries (CEI-Bois)

European Landowners' Organisation

(ELO) European Network of Forest

Entrepreneurs (ENFE) European Timber Trade Association(FEBO) European Federation of Community

Forests (FECOF) Union of European Foresters (UEF)

Union of Silviculturalists of SouthernEurope (USSE)




No 26 – July 2005

Assessment of ForestCertification Systems

Nine forest certification systems are currentlyundergoing the PEFC endorsement process.

The SFI system (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)

from the USA has been submitted to the PEFC

Council for endorsement. An independentconsultant is being selected in a tendering

process and a public consultation process will

start shortly.

Lithuania has submitted its certification system

for PEFC endorsement and the independent

consultant Indufor Oy will start the assessmentwork in due course.

Germany and Austria have revised their

national PEFC certification systems after the firstfive-year period and submitted them to the PEFC

Council for endorsement. Consultants for the

assessment are currently being selected.

Public consultation has now ended as part of the

endorsement procedure of the systems from

Brazil, Estonia, Luxembourg, the Slovak

Republic and the re-endorsement of Sweden’scertification system. The assessment reports are

currently being compiled and reviewed and will

be published on the PEFC Council website, after

the PEFC Board and PEFC members have

considered them and voted on acceptance orotherwise of the schemes for endorsement.

Detailed information on all forest certification

systems being assessed is available at the PEFCCouncil website at www.pefc.org.

Left to right:BenGunnebergSecretaryGeneral

PEFCC,MinisterSemashko ofthe Ministryof ForestryBelarus andJaroslavTymrak

PEFC Technical Expert, during a recent visit to Belarus.

PEFC Council Statistics

PEFC /Countries

Endorsed

certified forestarea (ha)

Chain of

Custodycertificate

Australia 1 859 066 1

Austria 3 924 000 290

Belgium 234 608 29

Canada 63 761 595 50

Chile 1 527 180 0

Czech Re ublic 1 935 228 203

Denmark 13 617 4

Finland 22 355 596 85

France 3 669 463 719

German 7 001 453 520

Ital 356 053 17

Ja an 0 9

Latvia 37 860 14

Netherlands 0 2

Norwa 9 231 700 5

Portugal 0 0

S ain 365 840 29

Sweden 6 648 752 64

Switzerland 329 870 156United Kin dom 9 125 88

Total 123 261 010 2 285

The data above is updated on a monthly basis

and can be found at the interactive databasePEFC Statistics at http://www.pefc.org.

Chinese delegation at PEFC Council’s office in Luxembourgin July, (left to right) Li Mingqi, Xu Bin, Su Ming, Li Qing, Ben

Gunneberg, Jaroslav Tymrak, Hans Köpp, Oliver Scholz




No 26 – July 2005

PEFC General AssemblyThe next PEFC Council General Assembly will

be held on Friday, 28th October 2005 inBrussels, Belgium. Delegations from the 30

PEFC member countries worldwide, together

with representatives from potential newmembers, other invitees and obvservers are

expected to participate at the Assembly.

Invitations for the General Assembly will be sent

out in due course.

Reports From The PEFC

National Governing Bodies

In the following section PEFC member systems,both endorsed and those working towards

endorsement, have the opportunity to present abrief report on the current state of play in their

country. The views expressed here are the viewsof the members and do not necessarily reflect the

views of the PEFC Council

GERMANYGerman Publisher GongVerlag chooses PEFCcertification

The German publishing house Gong Verlag, hasassumed a leadership role among German

publishing houses and attained PEFC

certification at the beginning of June.

The Gong Verlag is the publisher of a number of

very well-known magazines in Germany, among

them the well-known TV Guide “Gong”.

Certifier Horst Gleißner presenting the PEFC Chain ofCustody certificate to Hermann Poppen of Gong

Publishing House

The publishing house based its decision to take

part in the PEFC system, on the fact that PEFCis widely accepted. “Our mainly regional paper

suppliers can more easily meet our demands as two thirds of the German forests are already certified ” [to PEFC], explained Matthias Huber

from Gong.

The Gong Verlag explained that one third of itsannual paper consumption is printed on 100 %

recycled paper and that already half of the paper

with virgin fibres comes from certified forests.

PEFC vignettes for certified companies

Five years after the start

of PEFC certifications inGermany the three

German regions

Thüringen, Baden-Württemberg and Bayern

have successfully been

re-audited byindependent certification

bodies. Every

participating forest

enterprise in these

regions has received a

new confirmation ofparticipation together

with a set of car vignettes to be displayed on the

windscreen of cars.

PEFC charcoal for BBQ season

The number of new PEFCcertified and labelled

products is increasing

constantly. The latestexample from Lower

Saxony - and just in time

for the barbeque season - is PEFC certifiedcharcoal produced by the forestry association

Waldmärkerschaft Uelzen near Lüneburg.

Contact: Dirk TeegelbekkersEmail: [email protected]




No 26 – July 2005

CHILE

New CERTFORStandard for Native

Forests

Tackling the real Chilean native forest issue:

small landowners´ practices

Fundación Chile and the Instituto Forestal

(INFOR) have been collaborating to develop the

National Forest Certification system, CERTFOR.

Already in 2001, they had developed a

Sustainable Forest Management Standard for

forest plantations. This initiative, endorsed by thePEFC Council, has so far resulted in 1.6 million

hectares of certified forest plantations in Chile.

As a continuation ofthis work, and

making use of the

experiences acquiredduring the Forest

Plantations Process,

the development of

the “CERTFORForest Certification

Standard for Native Forests” was initiated in2004. At the beginning of this process RegionalWorking Groups were created with

representatives of the various stakeholders

associated to distinct social and environmentalrealities in Chile.

In order to ensure

adequate participationof those sectors that

were marginalized in

other certificationprocesses, a

Thematic Social

Group was created,with representatives

of small and medium-scale forest owners groups.

A second group, the First Nations’ Group, wasformed by representatives of native ethnic

groups, and served as an rapprochement

initiative for their incorporation to the process.

After several months

of work, now almost

50 institutions andover 200 people havebeen asked to

contribute their vision

to the development of

the native forest

standard, in over 35

working meetings.This process has resulted in the first draft for a

SFM Standard for Native Forests.

The creation of a National Technical CertificationCouncil for native forests followed, whose

mission was to validate the technical and political

nature of the first standard draft.

The Council for Native Forests consists of

democratically elected representatives: one from

each regional group, representatives of NGOs,

experts in natural forest management and

representatives of public and private institutions.

Once the Technical

Council had approveda version of the

standard, pilot tests

were implemented for

the Native Forest

Standard. Numerouspersons joined these

tests and were

mobilized in variousregions, involving large companies as well as

forest owners.

The final steps in the development of the nativeforest standard will be a public consultation

process for the final standard approval and the

submission for PEFC endorsement in early 2006.

Contact: Gisella BarreraE-mail: [email protected]

Working Group in the field,Region IX – CHILE

Small-scale landownersexchanging opinions with

the working group

Small-scale landownersin Region IX

Lenga forest (Nothofagus

pumilio) – Region XII,Chile




No 26 – July 2005

LUXEMBOURG

New PEFC brochures forprivate and communal

forest owners PEFC Luxembourg has

developed a new set ofbrochures for private and

communal forest owners.

The material providesinformation on the

advantages and basic

requirements of PEFCcertification; how to participate in PEFC;

certification costs, obligations for forest contractors;and gives guidance for the development of PEFC

management plans and maps.

The information material is available in French

and German at www.pefc.lu > Downloads.

Minister Boden presents PEFC Luxembourg

The Luxembourg certification system was

officially presented to the public in a pressconference hosted by the Luxembourg Minister

for Agriculture, Viticulture and rural Development,

Mr Fernand Boden, at the end of April.

Joseph Crochet, President PEFC Luxembourg, FernandBoden, Minister of Agriculture, Viticulture and rural

Development, Octavie Modert, State SecretaryMinistry of Agriculture, Jean-Jacques Erasmy,Director Luxembourg Forest Administration

Speakers at the press conference praised the

PEFC system for its adaptability to national and

regional circumstances. Already 15 % of allforests in Luxembourg are being managed to theLuxembourg standard.

Contact: Michèle Thinnes / Tom WagnerEmail: [email protected]

ITALY

Tetra Pak choosesPEFC certified Pallets

Tetra Pak chooses PEFC Pallet

Tetra Pak Italy and PALM S.p.A. have taken a

further step towards sustainable development.

Tetra Pak Italy (www.tetrapak.it), one of theworld's largest suppliers of packaging systems

for liquid and solid food, has decided to use

PEFC certified pallets for its “green supply chain”

produced by PALM S.p.A. (www.palm.it).

Raw materials, spruce

and fir, coming from

certified PEFC Austrian

forests, are provided to

PALM S.p.A. by Stora-

Enso, a well-known

international firm involved in good environmental

and forest management. The whole chain ofcertified wood suppliers and the choosing of

PALM pallets, which are designed according to

the eco-design principles - in order to save spaceand raw material - give final customers the

guarantee of Tetra Pak’s commitment to the

environment in every phase of the production.

Wooden pallets today

are used for the

transportation of 80%

of global goods and

are with the products

during everyproduction step.




No 26 – July 2005

Two more companies obtain PEFC Chain of

custody certification in Italy

Holzhof has obtained the PEFC Chain of

Custody certification using the physicalseparation approach. The wood used by Holzhofcomes from Finland. Holzhof will put the logo on:

street furniture, playground furniture and wooden

lamellar beams. Holzhof has always paidattention to the environmental aspects for its

production, but now green public procurement

has given new impulse to companies, that wishto do business with public administration

authorities. For more information see

www.holzhof.com.

Ettore Reni S.p.A has also chosen PEFC

certification. At the moment the poplar wood

used for its production comes from France, but

as soon as the pilot study on poplar certification

is completed in early 2006, PEFC certified poplar

wood will also be available from Italy. For furtherinformation see www.renicompensati.it.

Contact: Antonio BrunoriEmail: [email protected]

MALAYSIA

Continued growth ofMalaysian system

Following the finalisation of the new standard,Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest

Management Certification [MC&I (2002)], MTCC

has taken the necessary actions to prepare theAssessment Procedures.

In order to provide

informationpertaining to the

scope and

requirements of

the MC&I (2002)

Forest

Management Units

(FMUs) have to comply with, briefing sessions for

forest managers were conducted in Peninsular

Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak in February to

April 2005.

With effect of January 2005, the assessment of

all new applicants for forest managementcertification will be conducted against theMC&I (2002). So far, nine FMUs covering a total

of 4.73 million hectares of Permanent Reserved

Forests have been awarded the Certificate for Forest Management .

The certified area represents about 33% of the

total Permanent Reserved Forests in Malaysia.Eight of the certified FMUs are in Peninsular

Malaysia (the FMUs: Johor, Kedah, Kelantan,

Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor andTerengganu), while the remaining FMU (Sela’an

Linau FMU) is located in the Ulu Baram region of

Sarawak. As of May 2005, 66 timber companies

have been awarded

the Certificate for

Chain-of-Custody ,which allows them

to manufacture and

export MTCC-certified timber

products.The export of MTCC-certified timber productshas increased significantly over the last years,

particularly to European countries. By April of this

year, 31,294 m³ of MTCC certified sawn timber, mouldings, laminated finger-jointed timber and

plywood have been exported to the Netherlands,

Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, France

and Australia.

Contact: Mr L.T. Chew

E-mail: [email protected]

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website: www.pefc.org.

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