Adapting PEFC Chain of Custody certification to future needs

With over 18,000 PEFC Chain of Custody certified companies worldwide, our Chain of Custody standard has a tremendous impact on internal management processes of numerous businesses along the timber value chain.

This means we must ensure the standard is the best it can be: that it is easy to use and meets customer expectations, while also respecting the integrity of our requirements and our system.

As a result, our Chain of Custody standard is one of the areas under review as we continue our standards revision process. The responsibility for this revision falls to Working Group 4, which got together for their latest meeting in July.

WG 4 is also responsible for revising our Logo Usage Rules – the standard covering the requirements for users of the PEFC logo and labels. This document helps ensure accurate, verifiable, relevant and non-misleading usage of the PEFC Logo and related claims.

Labelling is becoming increasingly important as consumers attach great importance to ecolabels and want companies demonstrating responsible sourcing through the PEFC label.
more at:  http://pefc.org/news-a-media/general-sfm-news/2212-adapting-pefc-chain-of-custody-certification-to-future-needs

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