Home » Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) acknowledges his fraud

And also In the court other facts concerning violation of legislation of Germany (location of head company) were voiced.

On the ground, the facts company Eurobinia Gerriet Harms (EGH) prepared and applied the court action against Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) about the business fraud.
That fact should attract general attention and should encourage to continue to challenge the FSC system in a critical way. What are the real aims of the FSC? Does the FSC Certificate meet the expectations of the customers? It the FSC certificate really an appropriate mean for the compliance with the directive of public procurement?
Furthermore the court refers to possibly statements of false and derogatory issues which have always to be seen as dishonest. Here the court establishes that this is not the case:

"The defendant shows in his flyer with the help of examples that FSC certified companies do not comply with the requirements for ecologically responsible forest management installed by the plaintiff. The mentioned cases of malpractice were not denied by the plaintiff. For that reason it is to assume for this legal action that the FSC-certificate is in fact no warrantor that products labelled with it originate from sustainable and legal forest management. Here it is a matter of fact criteria of choice of timber for the ecologically aware customer." (citation Page 8 last clause)

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was founded in 1993. Founders of the organization are NGOs such as WWF, Greenpeace and other. Owing to advertising of them certificates, which allegedly are guarantor of sustainable forest management, FSC became as well know organization in many countries.

Record hearing

More detailed information : http://www.fragen-an-den-fsc.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/urteil_english-_united-kingdom.pdf

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