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GERMANY : GRUPPE '98
Contact:
Dr Bernhard Bauske, Manager
WWF-Germany
tel 49 69 605003 - 72
fax 49 69 605003 - 66
e mail bauske@wwf.de
Founded : 17 April 1997
Number of Members: 31 (among them 2 associations)
The membership is broken down as:
10 timber traders
3 DIY chains
7 furniture manufacturers
2 mail order houses
4 window frame producers
2 printing companies
1 house manufacturer
2 associations
Commitment:
- The certification of sustainable forest management according to the principles & criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is recognized as a functional, independent and credible certification scheme for forest management.
- The company will undertake all efforts to document the sources of the timber traded and / or used.
- The company will request timber and / or timber products with the FSC-label and include products with FSC label in its line of products.
- The company will inform its suppliers and customers about the certification of sustainable forest management according to the concept of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as well as the GROUP '98 and its objectives.
- The company will participate in the periodical, standardized reporting procedure of the GROUP '98.
- The activities of the GROUP '98 are view as strategic tasks within the company.
The target of the group is to support the objective of the WWF to reach
sustainable management and certification according to the principles&criteria
of the FSC of at least 10 million hectares of forests worldwide by the year
1998.
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