There’s an extended opportunity to comment on the first draft of international controls on the use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides, and new guidance on taking account of those evolving international controls in forest managers’ work right now.

FSC has issued an interpretation for the Chain of Custody Certification of Multiple Sites standard (FSC-STD-40-003 V2-1).

Given the recent developments around the global outbreak of COVID-19 and increasing travel restrictions, we have updated the derogation that allows certification bodies unable to conduct on-site audits to either postpone the audit or replace it with desk audits. Internal auditors of group and multi-site certificates will soon be given similar options.