Standard Development Report 2025
This document provides a summary of the Standard Development Report for the 2025 revision of the SAFAS Forest Management Standard.
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This document provides a summary of the Standard Development Report for the 2025 revision of the SAFAS Forest Management Standard.
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A summary of the SAFAS Working Group’s responses to stakeholder comments received during the revision of the SAFAS Forest Management Standard.
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The National Governing Body for the Sustainable African Forest Assurance Scheme (SAFAS) in the role of the Standard development body for the revision of the SAFAS standard, announces the working group members.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WORKING GROUP FOR THE REVISION OF THE SAFAS FOREST MANAGEMENT STANDARD Read More »
Eswatini is commencing the development of a national forest certification standard. In doing so it is joining South Africa as part of a regional forest certification programme, under the banner of SAFAS (Sustainable African Forest Assurance Scheme). The scheme is open to applications from countries in the SADC region. SAFAS aims to have its regional
Products with PEFC claim and / or label deliver confidence that raw material originates in sustainably managed forest. The PEFC Council provides endorsement of national forest certification schemes which are required to comply with the PEFC Council requirements subject to regular evaluations. The document had been developed in an open, transparent, consultative and consensus based
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This document contains the procedures for setting, recording and revising the SAFAS Standard.
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The objective of this report is to provide a description of the process followed during the development of the South African Forestry Assurance Scheme’s Standard for responsible forestry management in order to demonstrate compliance with the SAFAS Standard Setting Procedures (SAFAS 5:2017).
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