STANDARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP NEWS
Russian FSC-certified Company Preserves Vast Area of Fish-Spawning Forest Belts
In Russia, the FSC-certified company ‘Ustyansky Timber Industry Complex’ (abbreviated in Russian as ‘ULK’) has decided to voluntarily preserve more than 23,000 hectares fish spawning protection forest belts along rivers, after these areas lost their state protection.
MARKET NEWS
FSC Introduces New Okoume Transaction Verification
The new round of transaction verification for okoume will cover FSC claims made between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The deadline for certificate holders to submit requested transaction verification data is 29 September 2020.
