At the 2011 FSC General Assembly, the FSC Membership passed Policy Motion 51 to ‘Strengthen the Controlled Wood System’. The motion includes a revision of the Controlled Wood Standard (FSC-STD-40-005), an evaluation of existing risk assessments, the phase-out of company developed Risk Assessments and the development of FSC National Risk Assessments (NRAs).

One of North America’s largest movie theatre operators, Cineplex, has announced its latest commitment to using FSC certified paper 

FSC International, on behalf of the FSC Board of Directors, has announced the election of three new FSC Board Members: Alan Smith (Northern Social); Ralph Schmidt-Liermann )Economic South); Alan Thorne (Economic North and the re-election of four FSC Board Members: Martha Nunez (Southern Social); Anthony Conrad Sebastian (Southern Environmental); Fran Raymond Price (Northern Environmental); Hans Djurberg (Northern Environmental).