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Evaluation and assessment of Uruguayan Forest Certification scheme against the requirements of the PEFC Council
Annex 4. Assessment of the Uruguayan Forest Certification Scheme - Panel of Experts review
Issues raised by the Panel of Experts and Consultants’ responses are detailed in the following table.
Report
chapter/
page
Consultant’s report
statement
PoE member comment
SUMMARY OF PoE review
As a summary of my review of the evaluation report, I
cannot consider that the information provided by the
consultant has provided the objective evidence to provide
the consultant’s positive assessment of the UFCS.
Consultant’s response
General
There is no doubt that a positive evaluation is achievable,
on the basis of the UFCS documentation, provided the
consultant addresses to issues I have identified in my
consideration.
There are definitely more than 3 issues as identified by the
consultant, in my opinion, and any recommendation for
endorsement of the UFCS would definitely be a conditional
one with agreed work required within timelines.
Comments noted. Additional text has been
added to justify Consultants’ assessment with
conclusions modified accordingly.
General
Having read relevant sections of the UFCS documentation to
back up the assessment by the consultant and
acknowledging that English is a second language for PEFC
Uruguay, the review of the UFCS by an English as a first
language would be beneficial for the UFCS if it is to be
maintained on the PEFC website.
The assessment is based on the normal documentation (desk
work) and a 4-5 days field visit with various meetings. Since
ITS Global is from Australia there are no linguistic
deficiencies. It is clearly structured and its
recommendations can be fully supported.
A few major and minor items, however, need further
clarification (following the pages of the report):
Comments noted.
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