The amended US Lacey Act adopted last year implies firm requirements for due care by US traders to avoid illegal wood products. Retailers, importers, manufacturers and logging companies are now in the process of adjusting to the new agenda  Read more  

Forest certification seems to be taking off on the African continent. More than 6.5 million hectares are now FSC-certified, and the area of certified forest has grown by 27% since January. Also, the first forestry certification scheme in Africa has been endorsed by PEFC Read more

On 22 April, the European Parliament backed a proposal for strengthening draft EU legislation to curb illegal timber trade in the EU. The proposal obliges operators throughout the supply chain to take due care to avoid illegal timber products, installs tough penalties for violators, and calls for stricter monitoring Read more

Norwegian printer Grøset Trykk is the first and only printing house in Norway to offer their clients printed matters carrying the FSC or PEFC label. With its dual certification, Grøset Trykk is pioneering chain of custody certification in the Norwegian printing sector  Read more

While FSC certification is increasingly popular among printing houses, not many specialised binderies have so far obtained an chain of custody certificate. But for Danish bindery D.L.Clément, certification was an obvious choice Read more  

NEPCon's partner in FSC certification, Rainforest Alliance, is the first FSC certification body to be fully accredited as a forestry verifier to Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), a leading scheme for voluntary carbon mitigation verification. In partnership with the Rainforest Alliance, NEPCon is now able to offer a wider range of responsible forestry and climate verification services Read more