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2003/12/19	?FSC or equivalent?: a nonsense approach - Article from hardwoodmarkets.com, December 2003

Forest Industries Inteligence Ltd.: The lead article this month is one long argument, criticising various government proposals to discriminate in favour of timber certified by ?FSC or equivalent? certification schemes. The article is not a critique of FSC itself but of the way the scheme has been presented by some of its supporters.
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2003/12/18	French DIY retailers support all forest certification schemes

PEFC Council: The Federation of French Do It Yourself retailers (Federation des Magasins de Bricolage - FMB) has decided to support all forest certification schemes. This information was confirmed in a letter from Mr Pascal Malfoy, president of FMB to Mr Henri Plauche-Gillon, president of PEFC.
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2003/12/10	PEFC Brochures available in Japanese and Czech languages

PEFC Council: All three PEFC Brochures can be now also be downloaded from the PEFC Council website in Japanese and Czech.
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2003/11/11	Pekka Patosaari (UNFF) Speech at the 7th PEFC General Assembly

PEFC Council: Mr Pekka Patosaari, Coordinator and Head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) gave a key note speech at the 7th PEFC General Assembly in Luxembourg on the 31st of October 2003.
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2003/10/29	New PEFC website launch

PEFC Council: Launch of new and improved PEFC Council's website.
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Photography courtesy of FFIF, ONF, UPM-Kymmene Corporation, BIOSA, FinnForest Corporation, Villac, CTBA