8/9/2019 PEFC Newsletter 34 General Assembly November 2006 http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/pefc-newsletter-34-general-assembly-november-2006 1/10 The PEFCC Newsletter is produced by the PEFC Council (Registered as an asbl in Luxembourg No. 1999-61-02192) 17 Rue des Girondins, L-1626 Hollerich, Luxembourg ¦ Tel: +352 26 25 90 59 ¦ E-Mail: [email protected] ¦ Web Page: www.pefc.orgProgramme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes No 34 - November 2006 PEFC/01-00-01 Special 10 th PEFC Council General Assembly Issue Contents Chairman’s Reception at the World Forestry Centre Chairman’s report – Extracts Keynote speech by Peter Seligmann, Conservation International New Guide for the Avoidance of controversial timber New Non Wood Forest Products Guide European Tissue Symposium becomes Extraordinary Member of PEFC Bridging document for ITTO guidelines Election of new Chairmen and Board of Directors PEFC Council honours outgoing PEFC Founding, First Vice Chairman and Directors Changes to PEFC Council documentation Endorsement of the Austrian certification system Field trip to certified forests Special General Assembly Issue Forest Certification Systems meet for PEFC Annual General AssemblyGuest speakers, invited guests, representatives of international organisations as well as PEFC Council Extraordinary Members and national delegates of the 31 member countries gathered for the 10th PEFC Council General Assembly in the World Forestry Centre in Portland, Oregon (USA). During the three day meeting from 26 to 28 October 2006, the participants met for workshops, elections and decisions on PEFC’s future and participated in and received first hand experience of certified forests in Oregon. Details of the General Assembly and surrounding events are covered in this PEFC Council Newsletter Special. A representative from the paper industry recently said that “PEFC is the next big thing.” And indeed the demand from users of forest certification and businesses especially in the paper sector is enormous, and growing rapidly. What is the secret behind these developments? Of course there is the commitment of companies and users to the responsible procurement of timber and paper. Government and corporate procurement policies explicitly specify PEFC certified products. Producers of responsibly sourced raw materials have started or are in the process of labelling all their PEFC certified products with the PEFC logo. But there are also other factors that decisively contribute to the current developments: Two years ago PEFC had about 50 million hectares, now we are close to the 200 million mark, a fourfold increase. Forest certification within the PEFC framework has become a global movement and PEFC is the common “currency” between the national forest certification systems, assuring compatibility and equally high standards in the international market place. (Continued on page 2) Editorial by Ben Gunneberg Secretary General
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ContentsChairman’s Reception at the WorldForestry Centre
Chairman’s report – Extracts
Keynote speech by Peter Seligmann,Conservation International
New Guide for the Avoidance ofcontroversial timber
New Non Wood Forest Products Guide
European Tissue Symposium becomesExtraordinary Member of PEFC
Bridging document for ITTO guidelines
Election of new Chairmen and Board ofDirectors
PEFC Council honours outgoing PEFCFounding, First Vice Chairman andDirectors
Changes to PEFC Councildocumentation
Endorsement of the Austriancertification system
Field trip to certified forests
Special General Assembly Issue
Forest Certification Systems meetfor PEFC Annual General Assembly
Guest speakers, invited guests, representatives of international
organisations as well as PEFC Council Extraordinary Members
and national delegates of the 31 member countries gathered forthe 10th PEFC Council General Assembly in the World ForestryCentre in Portland, Oregon (USA). During the three day
meeting from 26 to 28 October 2006, the participants met for
workshops, elections and decisions on PEFC’s future andparticipated in and received first hand experience of certified
forests in Oregon. Details of the General Assembly and
surrounding events are covered in this PEFC Council
Newsletter Special.
A representative from the paper industry recently said that
“PEFC is the next big thing.” And indeed the demand from
users of forest certification and businesses especially in thepaper sector is enormous, and growing rapidly.
What is the secret behind these developments? Of course
there is the commitment of companies and users to theresponsible procurement of timber and paper. Government and
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Key note speech by PeterSeligmann from Conservation
InternationalMr Peter Seligmann, Co-founder, Chairman of
the Board, and CEO of Conservation
International addressed the participants of the
General Assembly.
Peter Seligmann, Conservation International, speakingat the PEFC Council General Assembly in Oregon
In his speech, Mr Seligmann underlined the
importance of forest certification and the use ofcertified products to promote the sustainable
management of forests.
Future challenges included how to increase the
area of sustainable forest management. The
inclusion of small land owners and local peoples
in forest certification as well as making the efforts
relevant to issues such as carbon trading were
cited.
Mr Seligmann emphasised forest certification’s
capacity to reach out to society and at the sametime ensuring the well being of local peoples.
The real challenge for the environment in general
was to involve everyone and he congratulated
PEFC for its successful involvement of all
stakeholders in its processes. He underlined thatco-operation not confrontation is the method
Conservation International uses to reach its
environmental goals.
Mr Seligmann has led Conservation International
from its days as a small group with lofty ideals toan international conservation leader with
activities across more than 40 countries on fourcontinents.
For information on Conservation International
visit www.conservation.org.
(Continued from page 1)
The availability of certified wood has increaseddramatically and now accounts for 25% of the
world’s industrial round wood production, the
overwhelming majority of it PEFC certified.
We receive requests from companies from all
over the world, who want to become PEFC
certified, and more national initiatives, ENGOs
and associations in the forest, timber and paper
sector are seeking to participate in the PEFC
Council’s activities.
In Asian markets, for example, enterprises have
started to see the market advantages of PEFC
and increasingly choose a PEFC Chain of
Custody certification. The decisions taken by the
General Assembly, including the incorporation of
the ITTO benchmark study results; the new guidefor the Avoidance of timber from Controversial
Sources and the incorporation of Non Wood
Forest Products in PEFC certification, willcontribute to advance the development of PEFC
to meet customer requirement for the promotion
of sustainable forest management.
Ben Gunneberg
Secretary GeneralPEFC Council
The next PEFC Council GeneralAssembly will be held in Munich,
Germany from 4 to 6 October 2007.
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PEFC General Assembly 2006Extracts from the Chairman’s Reporton activities in 2005 / 2006
In last 12 months PEFC hascontinued to expand with
members in currently 31
countries. PEFC’s certifiedarea globally has increased
by almost 65 million
hectares, a growth of morethan 50%, and the number
of PEFC Chain of Custody
holders has increased by
more than a fifth. PEFC is
rapidly approaching the
mark of 200 million hectaresof PEFC certified forests,
with more than 18,000 PEFC
logo users and more than2,800 certified enterprises.
Growing Awareness andcall for PEFCPEFC continues to be the
world’s largest resource of
certified wood and more andmore governments have
issued procurement policies
and statements, which
include PEFC certified
products. In the past year
alone this has includedBelgium, Japan, Denmark,
the United Kingdom and the
EU Parliament.
ICFPA, the International
Council of Forest and PaperAssociations has issued aStatement on Sustainability
and the European Toy
Manufacturers, called for the
use of PEFC, to name but a
few. There is a growing
demand for PEFC certified paper and a greater
awareness of PEFC with TV and newspaper
coverage in most countries.
PEFC has particularly been praised for its social
criteria as the example by a German trade
union’s foundation for sustainability and social
society, shows.PEFC PublicationsTwo new PEFC Position Papers have been
published, on, Tribal and Indigenous people,
local people, local communities and forest
dependent communities and on a Phased
Approach to Forest Certification .
PEFC published its first Annual Review for 2005,
showing PEFC’s global situation and activities.
Documentation on the Avoidance of timber from
Controversial Sources, the inclusion of ITTO inPEFC and a new option for Non Wood Forest
Products have been developed.
PEFC membershipWe have received a joint new membership
application from two joint timber certification
councils in Russia and an application forExtraordinary Membership from ETS, the
European Tissue Symposium. (See further
details in this Newsletter)
PEFC seminarsThe National Secretaries meeting in Spain
provided the opportunity for the exchange of
ideas, presentations and training. Subjects
included financing, fundraising, market access,
technical issues and promotions.
Chain of Custody seminars with the involvement
of the PEFC Council have taken place in Japan,
Belgium and the UK further increasing PEFC’s
presence and visibility in the market place, and
similar events were organized at national level in
other countries.PEFC endorsementCertification systems submitted or undergoing
endorsement or re-endorsement during the yearincluded: Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia,
France, Gabon, Germany, Lithuania, Norway,
Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, the UK, US/Canada(SFI) and Switzerland being re-instated to the
endorsed status.
Henri Plauche Gillon, Chairman PEFC Council
PEFC CouncilFounding ChairmanHenri Plauche Gillon
“PEFC Council is rapidly
approaching
the 200 million
hectares mark.
During the last
12 months,
there has been
a tremendous growth of
PEFC in
certified area and certified
businesses as
well as a
rapidly
increasing
choice of PEFC
by private and
governmental
users of forest certification.”
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Russian forest certificationinitiatives merge under PEFC
The PEFC Council membercountries approved the joint
application by the two
Russian initiatives to
transfer the nationalmembership of the current
PEFC Council member, the
National Council of Voluntary Forest Certification Council in Russia (RSFC) to the Partnership on
Development of PEFC Forest Certification in
Russia (“PEFC Russia”). The RSFC, a PEFC
Council member since October 2004, and theRussian National Council for Forest Certification
(RNCFC) decided to create an umbrella
organisation, to represent both Russian forest
certification systems in PEFC.
For details see PEFC Council Press Release 15
September 2006 “Russian forest certification
initiatives sign historic agreement”.
Austrian certification system
gains re-endorsement The Austrian forest certification system has
gained PEFC re-endorsement for a second 5-
year period. Chairman Henri Plauche Gillon
presented the official endorsement certificate toMr Felix Montecuccoli, representing PEFC
Austria, in a ceremony during the General
Assembly.
Chairman Stefan Schenker, Land & Forestowners Austria,Ben Gunneberg, PEFC Council, Felix Montecuccoli, PEFCAustria, Henri Plauche Gillon PEFC Council presenting the
endorsement certificate of PEFC Austria
Guide for the avoidance ofcontroversial timber
To help timber and paper companies preventwood from controversial sources find its way into
their products, the PEFC Council has developed
a new mandatory guide for the Avoidance of
Controversial Sources . The guide introducessafeguard mechanisms against procuring illegally
logged wood and complements the international
PEFC Chain of Custody wood tracking system.
The scope and the intensity of the safeguard
checks depends on the risk of procuring timber
from illegal harvesting. Certified material from
other certification systems, such as FSC, isconsidered as not requiring further checks.
The new guide, which forms Appendix 7 of theinternational PEFC Chain of Custody standard,
was approved by the PEFC Council General
Assembly and is available at www.pefc.org >
Documentation > Technical Documentation >
Annex 4.
New PEFC Non Wood Forest
Products Guide
Non Wood Forest Products (NWFP) can now betraded under PEFC. The PEFC Council members
decided to create a new option for NWFP, as part
of PEFC’s International Chain of Custody.
The new PEFC guide will allow companies to
market products, such as berries and
mushrooms, which come from PEFC certified
forests, with the PEFC logo.
Non Wood Forest Products in PEFC do not
include forest related services, such as tourism
and sports. Neither are tangible or non tangible
products and raw materials, whose origin cannot
be linked to a specific forest property, such asanimals, birds, air and water, able to be marketed
under the new option.
The guide is available as a new Appendix 8 toPEFC’s Chain of Custody, at www.pefc.org >
Documentation > PEFC Technical Document >
Annex 4.
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New Extraordinary Member:European Tissue Symposium
The European Tissue SymposiumETS has been unanimously accepted
as a new Extraordinary Member of
the PEFC Council.
Mr Phil Mogel from ETS
presented the application of
the European Tissue
Symposium at the PEFCCouncil General Assembly.
ETS’ member companies
represent the majority of the
tissue production in the EUFor further details on ETS and its member
companies visit www.europeantissue.com.
PEFC prepares ground forcertification in ITTO countries
The PEFC Council adopted the following ITTO
guidelines (International Tropical Timber
Organization) as a benchmark for theendorsement of forest certification systems of
tropical countries:
ITTO guidelines on the sustainable management of natural tropical forests
(1992)
ITTO guidelines on the conservation of
biological diversity in tropical
production forests (1993)
ITTO guideline for the establishment and sustainable management of
planted tropical forests (1993)
The PEFC Council decision was based on a
study by Savcor Indufor, comparing the ITTOGuidelines with the PEOLG (Pan European
Operational Level Guidelines).
PEFC honours outgoing PEFCChairmen and Directors
The outgoing PEFC Council Founding Chairman,Mr Henri Plauche Gillon, and the First Vice
Chairman, Mr Hannu Valtanen (in absentia),
were honoured in a ceremony during the General
Assembly. Thanking them for their long-timeservice and achievements for PEFC they were
presented with certificates recognizing their
outstanding work in establishing PEFCcertification as the largest forest certification
system globally.
The new PEFC Council Chairman, Michael Clark thanking
outgoing Chairman, Henri Plauche Gillon for his outstandingservice and achievements for PEFC
The PEFC Councilthanked both Chairmenwith a farewell present,
a wine barrel made fromPEFC certified wood bythe international winebarrel producer SeguinMoreau.
Outgoing First Vice Chairman, HannuValtanen of the PEFC Council, who wasunable to attend the General Assembly
in Portland
The PEFC Council also thanked Mr Josef Barton,
Marian Freiherr von Gravenreuth and Mr Ulf
Österblom, who ended their terms as Directors ofthe PEFC Council Board at the General
Assembly.
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New Chairman, Vice Chairmanand Directors for the Board
The PEFC Council General Assembly elected MrMichael Clark as the new Chairman of the PEFC
Council for a three-year period.
Mr Antti Sahi was elected as 1st Vice Chairman
of the PEFC Council for a one-year period. Mr
Björn Andrén, Mr Hans Drielsma and Mr Felix
Montecuccoli were elected to the PEFC Council
Board of Directors for a three-year period and MrAndrei Frolov, Mr Sébastien Genest, and Mr Paul
Wooding to the PEFC Council Board of Directors
for a two year period.
The new members join the following current
Board members: Mr Bob Simpson (Vice
Chairman), Mrs Kathy Bradley, Professor HansKöpp, Mr Luis Leal and Mr Willian Luddy.
Founding Chairman Mr Henri Plauche Gillon, 1st
Vice Chairman Hannu Valtannen, Mr JosefBarton, Marian Freiherr von Gravenreuth and Mr
Ulf Österblom have ended their election terms
(see separate article).
The background information below was provided
by the new Board members.
Michael CLARK
Chairman
Term of Office 2006-2009
Michael Clark has now
served two years in PEFC
Council Board of Directors
and is also on the board of
PEFC UK Ltd, having served
as chairman in 2005/06. He is a member of the
PEFC Council Board’s Market Acceptance
Committee and has been responsible formanaging the PEFC strategic communications
project in the UK. He is employed as a Vice-
President within M-real Corporation’s ConsumerPackaging Division.
Michael has been actively involved with forest
certification issues since 1994, representing the
interests of his company in negotiations with
members of the WWF 1995+ group and with the
main ENGOs, having made a number of
conference presentations and contributed articlesto the trade press.
Michael has worked as a senior executive in the
UK with the Finnish paper and board industry
since 1984 and as a past president of the UK
paper Agents Association and a former council
member of the UK Confederation of Paper
Industries, has been involved representing theinterest of the paper sector on forestry issues
with the UK Government and other industry
bodies. He is currently also President of Pro
Carton International, a group representing theinterests of the European carton and carton
board industries at European and national levels.
Antti SAHI
Vice Chairman
Term of Office: 2006-2007
Mr Sahi graduated in forestry
(forest management) from
Helsinki University in 1981.
First he worked as a teacher
at Kuru Forest Training School but since 1982 hehas worked in different duties in private forestry
organisations in Finland. He joined first as a
District Forest Officer and then as a Chief ofTraining at Pirkanmaa Forest Center.
Since 1988 he has worked for forest owners
organisations. 1998 -1995 he worked as amanager of the Regional Forest Owners Union
Pirkanmaa and since 1995 in the Central Unionof Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners
MTK. He worked first as Chief of Development,
then Director of Finance and since 2003 as
Forest Director. Because of these different duties
he has gained a broad experience in forestry. He
is a representative of family forest owners in
several national forest policy bodies andorganisations. He has also worked in several
international working groups.
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Björn ANDRÉN
Director
Term of Office: 2006-2009Mr Björn Andrén is a member
of the PEFC Sweden Boardof Directors.
He is employed as Managing
Director of Holmen Skog AB with responsibilityfor Forestry and Wood Supply to the Swedish
Holmen Industries.
Björn holds key positions in various sectororganizations. He serves among others as the
Chairman of the Forest Committee of theSwedish Forest Industries, on the Board ofDirectors of the Forest Research Institute,
Skogforsk, and on the Board of the Forest
Faculty of the Swedish University for Agricultural
Sciences, SLU.
He is also a member of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Agricultural and Forestry, KSLA. He
has specific interest in long term and strategic
forestry issues with connection to Sustainable
Forest Management.
Björn has made great contributions to develop
PEFC to match the demand from both small and
large forest owners in Sweden.
J. Hans DRIELSMA
Director
Term of Office: 2006-2009
Hans Drielsma is Executive
General Manager of ForestryTasmania, the government
owned business enterprise
which manages Tasmania'sState forests, where he has responsibility for
resources, planning, environmental management
and forest research. He has been involved in
forest certification since 1998 as Chair of the
Australian Forestry Standard Steering Committee
established to develop the Australian Forestry
Standard, and subsequently as Chair and then
Director of Australian Forestry Standard Limited,
the PEFC National Governing Body in Australia.
In that capacity, he has attended each PEFC
General Assembly since 2001, and in recenttimes has been instrumental in the development
of a more active multi-nation promotion of PEFC
in the Asian region. He is a professional forester
with post-graduate qualifications in forest policyand natural resources sociology, and a Fellow of
the Institute of Foresters of Australia.
Andrey V. FROLOV
Director
Term of Office: 2006-2008
Vice-president of the Union
of Timber manufacturers and
exporters of Russia, Member
of the Union board, Andrey
has been involved in the
PEFC process in Russia since 2001.
Sébastien GENEST
DirectorTerm of Office: 2006-2008
Sébastien is the Chairman of
France Nature Environmentthe French National
Federation of some 3000 local and regional
environmental NGOs. A member of the HighCouncil for Forestry, Forest Products and wood
processing and its Committee on Forest policy,
Sébastien is also on the Board of the National
Office of Forests and is a director of PEFCFrance.
From an early age, Sébastien has been involved
in numerous environmental organisations dealing
with the study and protection of nature. His main
interests are in the protection of the forest
heritage and to promote forest management in
France and abroad that respects the
environmental and biological diversity. He haswritten several papers on the need to integrate
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biodiversity in forest practises and policies to
translate intentions and theories for Sustainable
Forest Management into concrete applications.
Sébastien has served on the PEFC CouncilBoard of Directors since 2001.
Felix MONTECUCCOLI
Term of Office: 2006-2009
Director
Felix Montecuccoli studied
forestry and he worked indifferent positions in the
Austrian Federation ofLand and Forest OwnersAssociation – Land & Forst Betriebe Österreich.
In 2005 he was elected as president of this
organisation.
Mr Montecuccoli is a forest owner and forest
manager of a family forest estate with about 940
hectares, therefore he is also involved in various
aspectss of forest certification.
Paul WOODING
Director
Term of Office: 2006-2008
Paul Wooding received a
Bachelor of Science in
Forestry (BSF) from the
University of BritishColombia in 1975 and has
been a registered professional Forester (RPF)
with the association of BC Forest professionalssince 1977. He held various forestry positions
with BC forest products limited between 1975
and 1984.
In June 1984 he joined Canadian Forest
Products Ltd (Canfor) as Administrative Forester,
served as divisional Forester at the company’s
Englewood Logging Division from 1991 to 1992
and is currently Manager, certification and market
support with corporate Forestry.
Welcoming address of the newPEFC Council Chairman
"Having established what ispresently the world's largest
resource of certified wood raw
material, PEFC will continue to
drive for increased certification,but will now also increase its
focus on promoting forest
certification in the market place, encouragingcompanies and users of certified products to do
the same," said the newly elected Chairman of
the PEFC Council, Michael Clark.
"As United Nations statistics show, some 25% ofthe world's industrial roundwood production is
currently certified, the overwhelming majority to
PEFC endorsed certification systems. This
represents a huge potential for further expansion
of the certification process and provides an
opportunity to make a significant difference to the
sustainable management of the world's forests",
said Mr Clark. "However, we in PEFC can onlyachieve these goals if everyone in the supply
chain promotes certification and uses PEFC in
their marketing and communication activities. Iam already very encouraged to see, for example,
that a large number of major paper companies
have introduced coordinated programmes for the
active training of their personnel and the
implementation of chain of custody certification
and logo licensing for the marketing of labelled
products. Equally, a number of governments
have developed sustainable procurement policies
that recognise the value of certified wood andpaper products and which provide important
potential policy guidelines for both the public and
private sectors."
PEFC Council documentationSeveral changes to the PEFC Council TechnicalDocumentation were approved by the PEFC
members, among them clarifications on wording
and other editorial changes. The new documents
are available at www.pefc.org >Documentation
>PEFC Technical Documentation.
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Chairman’s Reception
On 26th
October, the
Chairman of the PEFCCouncil, Mr Henri Plauche
Gillon, welcomed guestsand representatives from
the 31 PEFC member
countries to a Welcome
Reception at the World
Forestry Centre in
Portland, Oregon.
The Chairman thanked the Sustainable Forestry
Board, the US American PEFC member
organisation, the American Tree Farm Systemand the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for hosting
this year’s General Assembly.
Mr Plauche Gillon also thanked the international
PEFC certified wine barrel producer Seguin
Moreau, with PEFC certified branches in North
America and Europe, for sponsoring the event.
FelixMontecucolli
(PEFCAustria),
Kathy Abusow(Canada),Mario Broll
and AntonioBrunori (both
PEFC Italia)
David Morman, Oregon Department of Forestry, Liz Sandler,Amercian Tree Farm System, Allison Welde, Sustainable
Forestry Board
Bill Banzhaf, President Sustainable Forestry Board, RobertSimpson, Senior Vice President Forestry Program American
Forest Foundation
Piotr Paschalis (Poland), Jari Parviainen and Pauli
Wallenius (both Finland)
Alban Petiteaux, Seguin Moreau, Sponsors of the reception
and PEFC certified international wine barrel producers, MikeVirga (USA), Lance Spears, Seguin Moreau Napa Valley
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Field Trip to Oregon certified ForestsTo get a first hand impression of forests, forestry and forest certification in the United States, the
participants of the General Assembly visited the Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm certified under the AmericanTree Farm Systems ATFS. The Stinson Family's Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm is over 350 hectares,
comprising predominately Douglas fir, and is situated along the Cowlitz River in the shadow of Mount St.
Helens. The entire Stinson family is involved in the stewardship of this property, which is managed for
multiple resource use including timber, wildlife, and other uses.
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