Facilitating dialogue for sustainable development of Ukraine's forestry sector: meeting with FSC certificate holders

Objective: presentation of updates in the FSC normative framework, discussion of key issues of FSC certification in the forestry sector of Ukraine, current challenges and opportunities for responsible business.

Target audience:

• FSC certificate and promotional licence holders ;
• public authorities;
• certification bodies, FSC International and ASI;
• other stakeholders.
• The event will be available in Ukrainian and English. Simultaneous translation will be provided during the event.

Topics for discussion:

• current situation of FSC certification in Ukraine;
• EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (EUDR);
• extension of the main interpretations and derogations of Collection of Policy Responses to Situation in Ukraine;
• updating and translation of normative documents;
• approval of the annex to the FSC national standard for Ukraine ‘FSC criteria, indicators and verifiers for the exclusion of areas contaminated by explosive ordnance from certification according to FSC-POL-20-003 V 1-0 for Ukraine’;
• announcement of planned events;
• FSC trademarks use;
• AAF in Ukraine.

You can send your contribution to the event's topics by 31 May 2024 to e.khan@ua.fsc.org.

How to participate?
Please register for the meeting at https://eu.frms.link/jmjylzs/