PEFCC Newsletter No 9 (Dec 2001)

The PEFC Council has issued the new Newsletter which covers the last quarter of year 2001.

PEFCC Newsletter No 9 (Dec 2001)

Contents:

• Editorial
• First Two Years
• World's leading scheme
• Certified forests in the world by scheme
• 100 Chain of Custodies and rising
• Another World First
• More than 100 Chain of Custody Certificates Already Issued
• Summary of Schemes endorsed by PEFC
• Next PEFC General Assembly

• USA - Sustainable Forestry Initiative? Standard released
• Switzerland - News from Swiss Q Label
• Sweden - 70% of timber supplies to S?dra sawmills will come from PEFC certified sources
• Spain - National scheme under assessment by PEFCC
• Latvia - Training Program Underway
• Germany - Over 5 million hectares already certified
• Italy - First Chain of Costodu Pilot Studies planned
• Forest Certification commences in France
• Finland - continuous development of National Scheme underway
• Czech Republic - New National Governing Body formed
• Austria - More than three quarters of Austria's forests Certified.