Partial Certification and Excision; Criterion 1.6 and 6.10

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Partial Certification and Excision Criterion 1.6
and 6.10
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Contents
FSC Policy Partial Certification
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FCC Policy Excision of Areas From FMU
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Applicability with Criteria 1.6 6.10
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Partial Certification of Large Ownerships
FSC-POL-20-002 (2000) Rules for Non-FSC
Members Non- FSC Members are not obliged to
apply for certification, or commit themselves to
certification, for their entire set of management
units, so long as each candidate for
certification is a separate FMU. Why the
Policy? To avoid Greenwashing by bad actors
with small model operations
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Guidelines for applying FSC-POL-20-002

• Applicant for certification must make full
  disclose of all forest areas over which the
  applicant has some responsibility, weather owner,
  manager, consultant or other responsibility.
  This disclosure shall be documented in the
  certification report.
• Applicant shall explain the reasons for seeking
  partial certification and this explanation must
  be documented in the certification report.
• Based on auditor findings, SmartWood shall
  determine whether stewardship in the
  non-certified lands compromises the applicant or
  certificate holders demonstration of long-term
  commitment to FSC PC (1.6) and whether this
  constitutes a serious failure of Principle 1.
• Audit Team must evaluate and document in the
  report the special controls that are in place
  that ensure that there is no risk of confusion as
  to which activities/products are certified and
  which are not.

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Gathering evidence to evaluate Criterion 1.6

• Comments received from stakeholder notification
  process.
• Through direct stakeholder consultation conducted
  during the assessment/audit.
• Consultation with regional SmartWood staff and
  consultants.
• Note It is not required or expected that
  management of FMUs excluded from the scope of
  the certification comply with all PC. Due
  diligence is require to ensure that a major
  failure related to Principle 1 does not exist
  related to management of other FMUs for which the
  applicant has some responsibility.

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Excision of area from the scope of certification

• Applicability of FSC-POL-20-003 (2004)
• There are situations in which am FMU as a whole
  complies with FSC PC but may contain specific
  areas in which all of the requirements are not
  met for reasons that are beyond the control of
  the managers.
• The are circumstances when it is acceptable to
  exclude or excise specific areas from the scope
  of an evaluation without the necessary loss of an
  FSC certificate for the remaining area.

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Requirements for Excision (FSC-POL-20-003)

• FSC Certification may take place when there are
  factors beyond the control of managers when the
  following criteria are met.
• Managers make all reasonable efforts to avoid any
  negative impacts.
• Managers respond to any negative impact that
  occur in a prompt an appropriate manner.
• The FMP for the certified FMU takes full account
  of the likely impacts, including budgetary,
  health and safety, adjustments to AAC for the FMU
  as a whole, etc.
• The area affected by the uncontrolled factors is
  a very limited portion of the FMU (less than .5
  of the area of the FMU in a given year, nor
  affect more than 5 of FMU total area).

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Requirements for Excision (FSC-POL-20-003)

• To Qualify for an excision the criteria must be
  met
• Management of the excised area does not prevent
  compliance with FSC standards in the remaining
  FMU and it shall be clear that the remaining area
  constitutes a viable FMU.
• The excised area is well defined, naturally
  delineated or artificially demarcated on the
  ground, mapped and clearly distinguishable form
  the remaining FMU.
• SmartWood shall verify that the excised area is
  non-controversial as defined by FSC (refer to
  FSC-POL-20-003).
• Control measures shall be in place to ensure that
  wood originating from excised areas is kept
  separate from certified wood and is not
  represented as FSC certified.
• FME complies with disclosure requirements
  detailed in FSC-POL-20-003 section 2.2.e.

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Applicable Criteria

• 1.6. Forest managers shall demonstrate a
  long-term commitment to adhere to the FSC
  Principles and Criteria.
• 1.6.b Forest owners or managers document the
  reasons for seeking partial certification
• 6.10. Forest conversion to plantations or
  non-forest land uses shall not occur, except in
  circumstances where conversion a) Entails a
  very limited portion of the forest management
  unit and
• b) Does not occur on high conservation value
  forest areas and c) Will enable clear,
  substantial, additional, secure, long term
  conservation benefits across the forest
  management unit.

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