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Bonn, Germany / Montreal, Canada - 30 December 2014. FSC has requested a six-month extension to be granted by the certification body Rainforest Alliance for a suspended forest certificate held by Resolute Forests Products (RA-FM/COC-005956) in Lac St-Jean, Quebec. The deadline for the suspension of this certificate is extended from January 2 to July 2, 2015.  

The current version of the CoC standard does not allow either certification bodies or Accreditation Services International (ASI) to detect mismatching volumes or claims in the trade of FSC material between certified organizations, whether caused intentionally or through negligence. The verification criterion included in the draft revised standard aims to fix this underlying problem.