Association NATIONAL VOLUNTARY FOREST CERTIFICATION SYSTEM as part of the procedure for revision the standard announces and informs stakeholders about holding a public discussion of the first edition of the project of the revision standard of forest management according to the PEFC system
UA SFM ST 02:2022 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT. REQUIREMENTS
Public discussion officially begins on July 9, 2022 and will continue for 60 calendar days until and including September 6, 2022.
The revision concerns the expansion of the scope of the current standard UA SFM ST 02:2020 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT. General Provisions (link). Draft of the revision standard UA SFM ST 02:2022 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT. REQUIREMENTS establishes special requirements for plantations on forestry lands, as well as Trees outside Forests (TOF), growing on lands of all other categories, except forestry lands. The specified requirements are placed in Annexes B and Г.
Minor changes have been made to the main part of the standard, which relate to the expansion of the scope, and technical corrections. The standard establishes the basic provisions of sustainable forest management, intended to:
- the ensuring of high productivity and stability of forests,
- conservation and restoration of forest biodiversity,
- minimization or elimination of negative effects of forestry production on the environment,
- sustainable forest use,
- economic efficiency of forestry production,
- its social function.
The text of the draft standard is available on the Association's website woodcertification.com.ua by link. We invite all stakeholders to discuss the standard and make suggestions for its improvement. Written responses should be sent by email to the address as follows: info@pefcukraine.com.
Comments and suggestions both to the updated elements of the standard, and to the standard and the process of its updating in general, please state (in the form of Appendix A) specifically and substantiated for each item, subsection, paragraph, appendix in the following sequence:
- on the feasibility of developing a standard;
- about the project as a whole;
- about the name of the standard;
- about the scope of the standard;
- about the standard structure;
- about individual sections, divisions, paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, paragraphs, and appendices of the standard.
Further information on the procedure for public discussion of the draft standard is contained in the Procedure for Development, Approval, Revision of the Forest Management Standard by link.
Contacts:
National Voluntary Forest Certification System Association
Address: 5, Starokozats’ka str., Dnipro, 49044, Ukraine
Contact person: Alla Obors’ka, Executive Director
Tel: +38 097 556-53-35, +38 093 110-04-89
Email: info@pefcukraine.com