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Certification Body Accreditation
FSC does not issue certificates itself. Independent certification bodies carry out the forest management and chain of custody assessments that lead to FSC certification. The certification bodies are held to account by Assurance Services International.
How does it work?
FSC sets the standards for forest management and chain of custody certification, and defines the procedures that certification bodies should follow in their certification assessments.
The following resources are relevant:
FSC-STD-20-001 General requirements for FSC accredited certification bodies
FSC-STD-20-007 Forest management evaluations
FSC-STD-20-011 Chain of Custody Evaluations
Accredited certification bodies are checked regularly to make sure they operate in line with our rules.
FSC is the only global forest certification system to have an integrated accreditation programme that systematically checks its certification bodies.
Assurance Services International (ASI) is responsible for checking certification body compliance with our rules and procedures through a combination of field and office audits. All FSC-accredited certification bodies must meet FSC accreditation requirements.
In the same way that certification bodies carry out annual checks on holders of FSC forest management and chain of custody certificates, so ASI carries out annual checks on the certification bodies, through office and field audits.
Past and upcoming accreditation assessments can be seen on the ASI website.
FSC-accredited certification bodies in Belarus
Attention!
As a direct consequence of this decision, the geographical scope of all FSC CABs that we work with will be reduced to exclude Belarus. This decision affects both FM and COC scopes, and will have the effect of invalidating current FSC certification activities of all CABs in Belarus without the possibility of acquiring new FSC clients.
Organizations not included in this list are not operating as ASI accredited certification bodies or do not work in the Republic of Belarus. If you have any doubts about the availability of accreditation, contact FSC Belarus or ASI.
Document Centre
From policies, to national standards, to controlled wood risk assessments, the most up-to-date versions of documents from our normative framework can be found here in the FSC document centre.
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