PEFC CERTIFIED PAPER FOR THE PRINT, PACKAGING AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRIES

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1 PEFC CERTIFIED PAPER FOR THE PRINT, PACKAGING AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRIES PEFC/

2 Growing Demand for Sustainabe Products Demand for sustainaby produced goods is growing in major markets gobay. Consumers are becoming better informed and more concerned about the environmenta provenance of the products they buy. Increasingy, companies producing paper and packaging products are keen to demonstrate their corporate sustainabiity commitments by deveoping a credibe paper procurement poicy. Financia institutions are aso increasingy using credibe corporate socia responsibiity reporting to assess financia risk profies and ending status.

3 GROWING DEMAND FOR THE PEFC LOGO In response to increasing print buyer interest in providing assurances of sustainabe sourcing to their customers, eading paper merchants are offering a range of PEFC certified papers, with more and more print companies obtaining PEFC Chain of Custody certification. Ever increasing numbers of pubishers and brand owners are opting to use the PEFC ogo on their pubications to demonstrate responsibe paper sourcing. The PEFC brand is visibe at nationa and internationa eves, with goba pubications such as The Economist and pubishers and companies from a sectors opting to use the PEFC ogo on their pubications, brochures, and reports. WHY CHOOSE PEFC? Corporate sustainabiity poicies often seek to ensure that virgin fibre used originates from ega and sustainabe sources. One of the easiest ways of demonstrating that virgin fibre comes from responsiby managed forests is to source from forests that have been independenty certified. Certification aso ensures that products are tracked through the suppy chain. Furthermore, with PEFC being the first goba system to incude socia requirements in Chain of Custody certification, the basic rights of potentiay miions of workers aong the suppy chain are protected.

4 PEFC: Programme for THE Endorsement of Forest Certification PEFC is an umbrea organisation. It works by endorsing nationa forest certification systems deveoped coaborativey by a interested stakehoders and taiored to oca priorities and conditions. Each nationa system undergoes rigorous third party assessment against PEFC Internationa s unique Sustainabiity Benchmarks. These Benchmarks are based on broad consensus by society, expressed in gobay respected internationa and intergovernmenta processes and guideines for the promotion of sustainabe forest management. The Benchmark criteria are reguary revised through muti-stakehoder processes to take account of new scientific knowedge, societa change, evoving expectations and to incorporate the most up-to-date best practices wordwide Today, PEFC has recognised certification systems in about 30 countries. Together these account for over 230 miion hectares of certified forests, making PEFC the word s argest forest certification system. It is the certification system of choice for sma forest owners incuding famiy and community-owned forests. PEFC certified materias are accepted by numerous pubic and private procurement poicies wordwide. Chain of Custody CERTIFICATION Wood-processing enterprises, retaiers, printers, manufacturers, traders, whoesaers or stockists get their product fow certified. Chain of Custody certification guarantees that certified products originate from sustainaby managed forests. The abe aows customers and consumers to identify certified products. FOREST PAPERMAKING

5 What are the benefits of PEFC Certification? PEFC aows you to be confident about your raw materia sourcing. PEFC certification provides a fuy audited and verifiabe suppy chain from forest to end use. PEFC certification provides you and your customers with assurances that the fibre used and the products purchased originate from ega and sustainabe sources. PEFC reduces risk and can improve the interna efficiency of your business throughout the paper suppy chain accounting system by integrating Chain of Custody certification into your company s quaity management and contro systems. PEFC provides a practica demonstration of your company s corporate, environmenta and socia responsibiity by forming the foundation of a credibe paper procurement poicy. PEFC gives access to its trademarked ogo for both on and off-product communications. DISTRIBUTION PRINTING RETAIL

6 PEFC Chain of Custody Certification Chain of Custody is the process by which the source of a forest product is verified. In order for products originating from certified sources to carry the PEFC ogo, the certified raw materia must be tracked from the forest through the suppy chain. Ony when this process has been independenty verified and the product contains a minimum percentage of 70% PEFC-certified materia is the product eigibe to bear the PEFC ogo. PEFC has endorsed certification systems in around 30 countries over four continents. Specifying PEFC certified paper wi provide both you and your customers with assurances that paper products originate from responsibymanaged sources. For further information about the PEFC visit: PEFC Counci PEFC/ / Printed on PEFC certified paper by Fuer Davies Limited Baird Cose, Hadeigh Rd Industria Estate Ipswich, Suffok IP2 OUF t w Word Trade Center 10, route de Aéroport CH-1215 Geneva Switzerand t f e info@pefc.org w