PEFC International

The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to EU's request on future environmental legislation simplification. PEFC fully supports the vision of keeping our forests and planet sustainable. With more than 25 years of experience in voluntary certification, we bring practical solutions and can play an important complementary role to EU legislation by providing tools for implementation, enforcement, and acceptance on the ground. Certification connects high-level policy objectives with operational practices across diverse markets, countries, and supply chains, while maintaining credibility through independent third-party…

EU Green Deal, EU Forest Strategy, EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation, EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, EU Timber Regulation, Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Regulation, Renewable Energy Directive (RED II, RED III), EU Ecolabel, EU deforestation regulation, EU sustainable finance - taxonomy, EU Circular Economy framework, EU Carbon Removals Certification, EU Substantiation of Green Claims, EU Closer to Nature Forest Management, EU Nature credits and biodiversity certification, EU Forest Monitoring.

Carccu supplies newsprint paper under FSC Chain of Custody and PEFC Chain of Custody certifications. These certification systems provide documented procedures for tracing certified forest-based…