{"id":10030,"date":"2020-12-24T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtcc.com.my\/revised-pefc-guidance-for-forest-management-audit-due-to-covid-19-released\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:19","slug":"revised-pefc-guidance-for-forest-management-audit-due-to-covid-19-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/revised-pefc-guidance-for-forest-management-audit-due-to-covid-19-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised PEFC Guidance for Forest Management Audit due to Covid-19 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The PEFC Council has issued the third version of the guidance on general procedures for the application of the guidance, as well as specific rules for initial and re-certification audits, surveillance audits and internal monitoring programmes for group organizations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The latest version (Version 3) provides updates on auditing, including the introduction of hybrid audits, where an auditor or technical expert is on-site and the audit team leader is at a remote location. It also provides the possibility of postponing external surveillance audits and the annual internal monitoring programme for a maximum of six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The full guidance can be <strong><u><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PEFC-SFM-auditing-of-PEFC-certified-FM-due-to-Covid-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded<\/a><\/u><\/strong> here. The tracked changes document detailing the changes are available <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PEFC-SFM-auditing-of-PEFC-certified-FM-due-to-Covid-19-Tracked-Changes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The updated guidance (Version 3) was released on 18 December 2020 and is applicable until PEFC Council revokes the guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kindly contact Mr Melvin Ku at melvin@mtcc.com.my should you require more information regarding this matter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEFC Council has issued the third version of the guidance on general procedures for the application of the guidance, as well as specific rules for initial and re-certification audits, surveillance audits and internal monitoring programmes for group organizations.&nbsp; The latest version (Version 3) provides updates on auditing, including the introduction of hybrid audits, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22750,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/22750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}