Business View Magazine | March 2021

45 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 FOREST STEWARDSHI P COUNC I L OF CANADA BVM: Do you have different levels of certification? Dufresne: “There are two types of certification. The Forest Management Certification, where producer companies that are directly interacting with the forests, either from public or private land, have to go through a pre-audit process that normally takes a year to comply with the minimum requirement of our standard. Then there is a long audit process to comply with our principles and criteria and meet all the indicators without any non-compliance. When they are met, a certificate is issued for a five- year period, and there is a yearly audit process to make sure it stays consistent. It’s a very rigorous system and all the reports are accessible by the public at large and local stakeholders. “But also, throughout the chain of transformation of forests coming from producer companies right to the retail market, there is a system called Chain of Custody Certificate. At every step of the FSC General Assembly, 2017 The General Assembly is FSC’s highest decision-making platform for our global membership. In 2017, the event took place in Vancouver, BC. Copyright Geoff Howe FSC-certified lumber, Rayonier Advanced Materials