The PEFC GFS - Sustainable Forest Management - certification is a tool aimed at ensuring that the products come from forests managed according to sustainability criteria: the standards required range from respect for the natural cycle of the forest, with support for natural renewal to environmental protection. for the plants themselves and for the wild animals that inhabit the woods. Finally, a Sustainable Forest Management provides for the maintenance of a series of protection functions that the forest usually carries out with regard to climate, soil and water.
PEFC has also established standards for the management of particular types of forest, such as PEFC GSA - Sustainable Management of Arboreal plantations: poplar groves, polycyclic plantations and medium-long cycle plantations.
PEFC GFS or PEFC GSA certifications:
CSI with the ICILA brand can also issue FSC certifications in addition to PEFC, allowing companies a single interlocutor and therefore saving on certification costs.