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FSC Principles and Criteria
The 10 Principles and associated Criteria describe how the forests have to be managed.

They include managerial aspects as well as environmental and social requirements.

Only the General Assembly of FSC members change the FSC Principles and Criteria can by a vote of a majority. All other FSC rules are further specification of the requirements laid out in the FSC Principles and Criteria.


FSC in numbers

134.34 million  ha certified
18'663  CoC certificates
1014 FM/CoC certificates

(3 Sept 2010)     more...


News

07 September 2010
Project certificates integrated in the FSC certificate database
03 September 2010
FSC Director General Andre de Freitas to speak at international conference on ethical certification
20 August 2010
Thailand’s first FSC-certified Tetra Pak carton package launched
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