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Documents Under Review & Development

The Forest Stewardship Council is committed to recognizing the best forest stewardship practices in the world. This means involving people and including their ideas in all aspects of FSC.

This page contains information on the various FSC Canada and FSC International standards and policies that are currently under review or development.

FSC Canada

Currently Under Review or In Development

• Revision of Boreal Standard
• Development of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Standard
• Revision of the Maritime Standard
• Salvage Logging in Beetle Killed Forests

FSC International

Input Sought

Currently Under Review or In Development

• FSC-STD-01-001 FSC Principles and Criteria
• FSC-GUI-30-001b Integrated Pest Disease and Weed Management

FSC-STD-01-001 FSC Principles and Criteria (back to top)

Version 4-0 of FSC-STD-01-001 FSC Principles and Criteria currently under review.

FSC-GUI-30-001b Integrated Pest Disease and Weed Management (back to top)

This document provides a generic framework for Integrated Pest, Disease and Weed Management (IPM) on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified estates.

Use of the framework is not mandatory, or intended to be prescriptive, but adoption of its principles will assist managers in demonstrating that they have a strategy for reducing, minimising or eliminating the impact of any remaining pesticide use, as is required by FSC criterion 6.6. Without following some form of IPM framework, it may be more difficult for
managers to demonstrate they are meeting the requirements of criterion 6.6.

Managers and experts are encouraged to develop locally or regionally specific strategies based on the principles contained in the generic framework. Examples of a country strategy from which this generic framework is adapted, and a database of additional strategies for a range of individual pest, disease and weed problems from other regions across the world, are provided as resource to help managers develop their own regional specific strategies within the generic IPM framework.