Chain-of-Custody is a crit­i­cal com­po­nent within the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem due to its role as a bridge between the forest-based business/management unit as a pro­ducer and the com­mu­nity as con­sumers.
In addi­tion of meeting-up with the con­sumer needs, the Chain-of-Custody shall be used by for­est indus­try play­ers to increase trans­porta­tion and indus­try effi­ciency, as well as by the gov­ern­ment to iden­tify regional/national “legal” sta­tus of timber/forest prod­uct and to fur­ther deter­mine pol­icy treat­ment for timber/forest prod­uct with dif­fer­ent sta­tus and to define actions towards for­est resources security.

The con­tent of LEI Stan­dard for CoC Certification:

• LEI Chain Of Cus­tody Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Field Asses­sors Guideline
• Guide­line On The Sur­veil­lance Exe­cu­tion And Cer­tifi­cate Exten­sion In Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Program
• Gen­eral Require­ments For Chain Of Cus­tody Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Body
• Gen­eral Require­ments For Chain-of-custody (CoC) Field Assessor
• Gen­eral Require­ments For Expert Panel In Chain-of-custody Certification
• Guide­line For Report-writing Field Assess­ment On Chain Of Cus­tody Certification
• Guide­line For The Screen­ing Process In The Chain Of Cus­tody Certification
• Guide­line For Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Deci­sion Process Of Expert Panel
• Guide­line For The Drawing-up Rec­om­men­da­tions On Chain Of Custody/timber Track­ing Certification
• Chain-of-Custody Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion System

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