Bonn, Germany (August 28, 2015) – Company risk assessments will no longer be eliminated on December 31, 2015, as previously communicated; rather company risk assessments will be phased out over time by replacing the current standard – that allows these risk assessments - with a revised standard – that after a transition period will no longer allow company risk assessments in their current form.

FSC recently conducted a comprehensive study to estimate the global volume of FSC-certified wood harvested each year.

The second draft of the Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard (FSC-STD-40-004) is open for consultation from 1 September 2015. This revised draft is accompanied by a discussion paper that proposes a range of options to provide better assurance for FSC transactions between FSC Certificate Holders.