SILVER TAIGA FOUNDATION HAS TAKEN PART IN FSC GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Silver Taiga Foundation joined the international FSC membership in February 2017. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit non-governmental organization aiming at promotion of a responsible forest management all over the world. Silver Taiga Director Yury Pautov took part in FSC General Assembly, held in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) on October 8-13.

FSC General Assembly is a supreme body of the given international NGO, which determines the area of FSC-certification development for the nearest three years.

– More than 800 people from almost all over the world took part in the event, – says Yury Pautov. – During 5 days the delegates discussed the FSC development strategy for the period of 20 years, its implementation plans for the nearest three years and the organization management system. During the last two days the participants listened to the board of directors and the FSC secretariat reports, discussed the draft Resolutions prepared by the participants from different countries and voted for them. As the result 15 draft Resolutions were approved out of 70 ones, which mostly specify and enlarge the previously approved by the members the FSC strategic development plan.

Members of FSC Board of Directors

Only 1 out of approved 15 Resolutions can be regarded as a new one and it cannot be related to the Russian certificate holders as it deals with the certification of the plantations in case if they are planted in the wooded lands after 1994 and in compliance with a set of conditions.

Andrey Ptichnikov is being awarded for FSC certification development in the CIS states

All other Resolutions approved by the General Assembly 2017 clarify or enlarge already existing principles, criteria or previous FSC documents. They are, for example, the Resolution concerning the implementation of FPIC (free preliminary informed consent) strategy in cooperation with the indigenous and local communities or the Resolution focused on the stepped-up contribution to the food and non-wood forest resources certification and some others…

The report of the FSC Director General Kim Carstensen

According to Yury Pautov the Russain delegation took an active part in all sections of the given forum. In particular the Russian participants presented 5 draft Resolutions (the use of a landscape approach to the intact forests zoning, the mapping of the certified companies borders and others), but neither of them won the majority of votes.

The Russian delegation in the FSC General Assembly 2017

It should be noted, that participation in the General Assembly is important not only for Resolutions approval. It also gives an opportunity to discuss different problematic points, to make new contacts, to consult the colleagues from other regions and countries, to get an interesting and useful information. The Russian participants of the FSC General Assembly 2017 used these opportunities as much as possible.

Welcome to the FSC General Assembly 2017 from the local Indians