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7.4 Source Assessed in the Context of Exports to the US Market
Exporters can greatly assist their US-based customers in demonstrating that due care has been taken to ensure no illegal timber enters the supply chain. Showing you have taken due ...Delete Item
11.0 Environmental Status of Supplies - Recycled Sources
The raw material used should be designated recycled if it is either a forest product made from post-consumer recycled fibre (for paper) or wood-based material that is sourced from ...Delete Item
5.1 Traceability
This section provides practical guidance on ways of gathering and assessing data on suppliers, species and timber origin. The purpose of gathering data on species and timber origin is to ...Delete Item
7.1 Defining Legal Timber
To direct your organization's sourcing away from the products of illegal logging and toward those in favour of legal operators, you will need to define what you mean by "legal" ...Delete Item
14.4 National Legality Frameworks
The following National Legality Frameworks were developed by compiling all available documents constituting the legal framework for the forestry sector in each of the countries and conducting consultations at the ...Delete Item
Human Rights Violations
Internal and external stakeholder concerns may identify specific issues, countries, or companies that are extremely controversial or out of step with generally accepted practices. Sourcing forest products from such countries ...Delete Item
3.3 Examples of a Responsible Forest Products Sourcing Policy
Example 1 This organization is committed to the responsible sourcing of forest products. Our long-term intention is that all timber used in products that we purchase or specify is ...Delete Item
3.2 Main Policy Elements
Responsible purchasers should develop an environmental policy or set of policies that exclude unwanted forest sources. The list of unwanted sources, and the precise terminology used to describe them, will ...Delete Item
6.1 Dealing with Unknown and Unwanted Sources
Unwanted Source Unwanted sources may have a high degree of traceability or be simply unknown. Where the source is identified, the key information is that the source clearly does ...Delete Item