WHAT IS PEFC?

PEFC - is a system of forest certification ensuring international level of forest and forest management for timber harvesting, processing, transportation and sales. PEFC certification is a tool for monitoring all stages of the supply chain to ensure environmental, ethical and manufacturing standards!

PEFC standard is based on the features of national forest management taking into account the requirements of international certification bodies. The result is a balanced, environmentally friendly management of forests that is confirmed by a certificate recognized worldwide.

It is important that PEFC certification can be conducted in one of the formats:

  • For one legal entity whose forest supply chain includes one or more sites
  • For several legal entities in a single timber supply chain

WHY DO YOU NEED THE PEFC CERTIFICATE?

QUALITY

PEFC certificate is a determining factor on which your counterparties - buyers, investors, creditors will be oriented

AUTHORITY

PEFC International Forest Supply Chain Management Certificate raises the profile of the company unconditionally

EXPORT POTENTIAL

Thanks to PEFC certificate, you can to develop international markets, effectively bypassing technical barriers to trade with foreign partners


WHO NEEDS PEFC CERTIFICATION?


WE IMPLEMENT THE SYSTEM AND HELP TO PASS PEFC CERTIFICATION!


MAJOR PEFC PRINCIPLES:

  • Voluntariness: PEFC certificate obtaining should be based on understanding of the realities and prospects for the development of forestry and the woodworking industry

  • Transparency: the data of the verification audit as well as information on the company's participation in the certification process are commercial confidentiality documents

  • Objectivity: the PEFC audit uses specific indicators and criteria. It provides a complete understanding of the certification process and its outcome for each of the interested parties

  • Independence: the result influencing of the certification audit is excluded by the third party


OUR PEFC CERTIFICATION SERVICES:

  • Instruction and training of staff
  • Forest supply chain identification
  • Collection of documents in which it is confirmed that the timber is harvested in responsibly managed forests
  • Collection of documents in which it is confirmed that (between harvest and arrival to the end customer) forest products are not mixed with products from forests at any stage where there is no responsible management
  • Preparatory audit to identify current status and compliance with the PEFC wood supply chain standard
  • Elimination of inconsistencies with the PEFC standard when detected
  • Submitting an application for accreditation to a certification body
  • Supporting the audit process
  • Support for obtaining PEFC certificate


ARGUMENTS FOR COOPERATING WITH US:

Companies face a lot of procedural problems most often it happens during the process of certification independently without consulting professionals. As a result, there are difficulties with the preparation of documents and misunderstanding of the certification audit requirements. That’s why standardization can be delayed, and these are missed opportunities, lost profits and a loss in a difficult competitive struggle. In order to avoid such a course of affairs, it is important to enlist the support of professionals immediately, namely, certification experts from LLC EXPORT CENTER, in order to receive the PEFC certificate in the planned time and budget.



ABOUT COMPANY

LLC EXPORT CENTER provides training and validation services for many forest standards, including the following:

— FSC «Forest Stewardship Council»
— PEFC «Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes»
— SBP «Sustainable Biomass Partnership»

And also according to the ISO standards such as:

— ISO 9001:2015 and 45001:2018
— ISO 14001 and 50001
— ISO 28000:2007 etc.

You can find a full list of our services, our experience and competence on the homepage.

OUR ADVANTAGES

We have been working in this field for more than 15 years
Over 150 completed projects
Responsible work approach
Flexible pricing
Certificate Guarantee
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