As addressed in prior public announcements, SCS Global Services, Inc. (SCS) has been engaged by Forestry Tasmania (FT) to undertake an evaluation of FT’s forest management operations against the SCS Interim Standard for Natural Forest and Plantation Forest Management Certification in Australia under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as well as the FSC Controlled Wood Standard, FSC-STD-30-010.
Their statement can be downloaded below. It contains information regarding the timelines currently being followed by the auditors.
More information about FSC and the certification process can be found at https://ic.fsc.org/, http://au.fsc.org/ and https://ic.fsc.org/3-steps-to-certification.36.htm.