FSC-PRO-60-006b FSC Risk Assessment Framework provides a comprehensive tool for companies to assess and mitigate risks of sourcing forest materials. Once adopted, this new Risk Assessment will replace the existing FSC National Risk Assessment for the UK (FSC-NRA-GB V1-0) for controlled wood and will also act as a key document within the suite of FSC EUDR support tools including the Regulatory Module.
This next generation FSC Risk Assessment includes 64 indicators for assessing risks connected to relevant legal, social and environmental aspects of sourcing timber. The Risk Assessment will therefore be used by companies sourcing from, and within, the UK to create their due diligence systems for FSC Controlled Wood, and in support of their EUDR declarations when exporting into the EU. It will also be integral to meeting the requirements of the FSC new Regulatory Module.
Understand the background and how risk assessments work in the FSC system by reading the Demystifying Risk Assessments document.
UK Risk Assessment consultation
FSC International have engaged the consultants Preferred by Nature (PbN) to complete the Risk Assessment for the UK. FSC and PbN are continuing to work and gather evidence for the National Risk Assessment for the UK, to used for Controlled Wood, within the proposed FSC Regulatory Module and to aid EUDR compliance. We don't have confirmed dates for the public consultation but we will publicise these as soon as they are available.
Stakeholders wishing to engage with the public consultation on the UK Risk Assessment can sign up to be informed about the consultation here. The consultation will also be publicised further on the FSC UK website and in future Forest Matters.