Title: Rainforest Alliance/SmartWood Interim Standard for Assessing ...

this agreement the Joint Certification Protocol (JCP) between LEI and FSC has been
concluded.
Under the JCP, FSC and LEI agreed that in natural forests in Indonesia only a Forest
Management Unit (FMU) that passed both LEI and FSC system requirements would be
certified. The FMU then received both an LEI certificate and an FSC certificate and was allowed
to use both LEI and FSC logos.
The JCP has helped both organizations and their respective certifying bodies to collaborate
more closely and to learn from one another. The protocol has also helped in bringing the LEI
and FSC closer together. It is also apparent that a different kind of collaboration agreement is
needed to address the developments within and around both organizations and systems.
Following meetings in Bogor, Indonesia, in Bonn, Germany in summer 2005, and in Manaus,
Brazil in late 2005, LEI and FSC agreed to conclude the JCP but now also to collaborate
beyond natural forest concessions to include the areas of community-based forest
management, non-timber forest products and plantation forestry, and to work more closely
together in communication, trademark promotion, standards development, accreditation
systems and the development of modular/phased approaches
Therefore, in developing this Interim Standard, SmartWood have sought to incorporate the LEI
Criteria and Indicators to locally adapt the SmartWood Generic Guidelines.
SmartWood have also used other sources as basis for and inspiration for developing the
indicators and verifiers of the Interim Standard for Indonesia. Among the documents that have
been reviewed and considered in developing this Interim Standard are:
• “SmartWood Forest Management Evaluation Handbook”, Rainforest Alliance, January 2005
• “FSC/SmartWood Generic Standards for Assessing Forest Management”, Rainforest
Alliance, January 2008
• SmartWood document “Group Forest Management Certification Assessment and Reporting
Guidance”, Rainforest Alliance, January 2005.
• “SmartWood Interim Guidelines for Assessing Forest Management in Indonesia”, Rainforest
Alliance, April 2003.
• “SmartWood Generic Guidelines for Assessing the Management of Non-Timber Forest
Products”, Rainforest Alliance, January 2000.
• “SmartWood Certification Procedures Manual”, Rainforest Alliance, March 2006.
• “SmartWood SLIMF Policy and Procedures”, Rainforest Alliance, July 2005.
• “SmartWood Non-Timber Forest Products Certification Standards Addendum”, Rainforest
Alliance, January 2008.
• “LEI-V/5000-1/1, LEI Guideline 5000-1: System for Sustainable Natural Production Forest
Management”, LEI 2003
• “LEI Document-01: Verifier and Verification Toolbox for Assessment Indicators in
Sustainable Plantation Forest Management Certification System”, LEI 2003
• “LEI 5000-2 Sustainable Forest Plantation Management System (SPFM)”, LEI 2003
• “Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship”, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), April
2004.
• “Social Standards for Forest Workers in Forest Certification: The Application of International
Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions”, International Federation of Building and Wood
Workers (IFBWW);
• “FSC forest certification guidelines for forest workers and their unions”. Ana da Silva, Ana
CN and. Patricia Cota Gomes. 2004. IMAFLORA
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