Annex 4: Chain of Custody of Forest Based Products - Requirements

This standard can be endorsed and utilised by any forest certification or labelling scheme which includes chain of custody rules for the purposes of using declarations and/or labels referring to the origin of the raw material included in the forest based products.

The objectives of the chain of custody is to create an information link between the raw material included in a forest based product and the origin of that raw material

The text of this standard has been developed by the Chain of Custody and Labelling Working Group of the PEFC Council and was officially adopted by the PEFC Council General Assembly on 29 October 2004 and amended on 17 June 2005. The PEFC Council adopted two amendments to Annex 4 (in October 2007 and October 2008).

• Annex 4 (full version)
• Amendment No. 1 to Annex 4 (5 October 2007)
• Amendment No. 2 to Annex 4 (31 October 2008)

• Guidance on project C-o-C certification (29 November 2007)