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Meeting to form a National Working Group on FSC Voluntary Certification
Resolution
June 3-4, 1999, the city of Pushkino, Moscow Region, there was held a meeting in order to discuss forming of a National Working Group on FSC Voluntary Certification. The following organizations' representatives took part in the meeting:
- WWF Russian Office,
- Greenpeace Russia,
- Vologda Lab of North Forestry Research Institute,
- North Forest Project, Biodiversity Conservation Center,
- «Green Student Movement» (Saint-Pete),
- Russian National Hunting and Farming Research Institute,
- North Forestry Research Institute,
- CPPI,
- Smolensk Forest Management,
- Vladimir Forest Protection Committee,
- Certification Working Group of Komi Republic,
- «Belgiproles»,
- Open Joint Stock Co «Lesexpert»,
- Moscow State Forest University,
- Khabarovsk Regional Group on Voluntary Certification,
- Moscow Forest Management,
- NGO «Promles»,
- Saint-Petersburg Forestry Research Institute,
- Association of Minor Peoples of the North,
- Russian Forest Conservation,
- Saint-Petersburg Silviculture Research Institute,
- Russian National Forest Machinery Research Institute,
- Sakhalin Environmental Watch,
- Coordination and Information Center of SEU,
- State Forest Research Center,
- Moscow Regional Nature Committee,
- Central Committee of Russian Forestry Labour Unions,
- Marijsky State Technical University,
- Novgorod Consulting Foundation «Standard-Test»,
- «Progress» company,
- Forest Protection Center of Krasnojarsk Region,,br>
- Regional Public Movement «Friends to Siberian Forests»,
- Central Research Institute of Machinery and Energetics,
- Belorussian Ministry of Forestry,
- RCN magazine,
- Russian Ministry of Agriculture and Food,
- Saint-Petersburg Society of Greenpeace Supporters,
- Russian Federal Forestry Service,
- Moscow Forest Protection Center,
- «Fortech», Helsinki University.
The participants of the Meeting,
Having heard the speeches about the achievements of the Russian Initiative Working Group on FSC Voluntary Certification, as well as presentations of Regional Groups,
Having got acquainted with main FSC documents,
Remembering the necessity to develop voluntary forest certification in Russia to promote environmentally and socially responsible, and economically viable forest management,
Decided:
1. To sustain development of FSC voluntary certification process in Russia.
2. To form a National Working Group on FSC Voluntary Certification (hereinafter referred to as the National Working Group) in compliance with FSC official documents. The main tasks of the Group are to be:
To provide information for the process, to develop regional initiatives, to coordinate the establishment of FSC voluntary certification system on the national level, to create legislation base for FSC certification, to interact with state agencies, to encourage stakeholders to join in the FSC.
3. To set up a Coordination Council of National Working Group, including:
- V. Dmiriev (WWF)
- A.Zakharenkov (Khabarovsk regional Group on Voluntary Certification)
- M. Karpachevsky (Biodiversity Conservation Center)
- V. Korobov (Central Research Institute of Machinery and Energetics)
- Anna Laletina (Regional Working Group on Voluntary
Certification in Krasnoyarsk Region)
- M. Malkevitch (Siberian Forestry Research Institute)
- V. Nikolaev (Director of Certification Center of Moscow Sate
Forest University)
- T. Pavluchenko (Association of Minor Peoples of the North, Yeniseysk region, Krasnoyarsk kray)
- Y. Pautov (Working Group on Voluntary Forest Certification in Komi)
- V.Poljakov (Central Committee of Russian Forest Labour Unions)
- V. Tchouprov (Greenpeace Russia)
- Association of Forest Industry of Russian Federation
4. To assign the following to the Coordination Council:
- To make a list of candidates to the membership of the National working Group.
- To analyze questionnaires of the Meeting participants and, on the basis of the analysis, to prepare draft documents governing National Working group activities.
- To make a plan and to start achieving the tasks, set for the National Working Group by the delegates of the first meeting.
- To determine the sources of funds, to hold a meeting of the National Working Group, to endorse draft documents and the first membership of the working Group on the basis of the lists, prepared by the Coordination Council.
- To share the information with all the stakeholders, who are willing to take part in the National Working Group activities, concerning the activity of the Coordination Council and to consult with the national Working Group regarding all the main questions.
- To capitalize on spreading the information on FSC voluntary certification in order to promote the participation of the forest industry, forest managers and broad segments of public in the process.
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