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Certisource verification services provide the following key benefits
to our clients by enabling them to -
- Meet industry best
practice recommendations
- Demonstrate
compliance with regulatory requirements
- Import 'Verified
Legal Timber' into your marketplaces with independent certification of source
and legality
- Enter new sales
markets and increase profitability
Certisource verification services are credible and extensive and meet
the various and stringent demands of governments and consumers. Our robust
systems also counteract common market failures such as -
- Lot
Swapping
- Timber From Unknown
or Illegal Sources
- Lack of Product
Traceability & Supply Chain Transparency
Certisource tracks individual batches of logs through the entire
supply chain ensuring that exported timber products are fully traceable to a
known and licensed concession. Independent verification of source and legality
ensures that the supply chain is transparent and minimizes the traditional
reliance on government issued documents.
Certisource does not certify
the operations of forest concessions, sawmills, timber importers or retailers.
Instead we agree Chain of Custody procedures with all elements of the supply
chain before we start working with them and then carry out regular inspections
to ensure that agreed procedures are being followed. In this way Certisource is
proactive in validating operations on the ground and does not rely on the
periodic submission and inspection of data to determine compliance.
We
believe that our methods and the tracking technologies we employ ensure that
the Certisource certificate carries a level of assurance unchallenged
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