CAN/CSA Z809 Certification System
The performance framework of the standards begins with Canada's national criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, which reflect broad Canadian values and were approved by the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) in 1995. The CCFM Criteria are a Canadian adaptation of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) criteria, which were developed through the Montreal Process and intended for use by 14 non-European countries with temperate and boreal forests, and include such criteria as the conservation of biological diversity. The Montreal Process criteria are very similar to, and address the same goals as the criteria developed in parallel by European countries through the Helsinki Process. These sets of SFM criteria provide the best available definition of Sustainable Forest Management.
As international traders, it was essential that Canada's national Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) system standards use an environmental management system that was internationally recognized. As a result, the CSA SFM System standards are based on the ISO 14001 and 14004 Environmental Management System (EMS) standards, which are generic and applicable world-wide.
The CSA standards call for a third-party audit to evaluate the SFM System elements as well as field performance to ensure the criteria, local values and performance objectives are being achieved.
DMI-PRPD has outlined our commitment to adhering to the principles of SFM to our third-party auditor, KPMG Peformance Registrar Inc.
- For more information about the application of CSA forestry standards, visit the Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition website.
- To learn more about CSA Z809 standards, click here or view the CSA SFM brochure.
- For more information about the Canadian Standards Association, visit the CSA website.
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