During this audit, the auditors meticulously explained the latest FSC standard requirements, particularly in the following key areas:
• Core Labor Rights: The new standards further strengthen the audit of the abolition of child labor, elimination of forced labor, elimination of discrimination in employment, and respect for freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, ensuring that every worker in the supply chain enjoys their due dignity and rights.
• Supply Chain Transparency and EUDR Alignment: In response to the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), FSC has introduced more stringent requirements for collecting geographical location data (latitude and longitude), ensuring that products are precisely linked to specific land plots, achieving "deforestation-free" precise traceability, and contributing to global sustainable development.
• High Conservation Value (HCV): The new Chinese national standard places greater emphasis on identifying and protecting high conservation value forests, striving to maintain the ecosystem services, biodiversity, and other important values of these areas, thereby safeguarding precious natural heritage.
• Trademark Usage Guidelines: FSC has implemented more rigorous online auditing and authorization processes for trademark usage to uphold the integrity and authority of the FSC brand, ensuring consumer trust in the FSC label.