From January 1st 2014 FSC will introduce a revised Annual Administration Fee Policy (FSC-POL-20-005 V2) for all certified companies within the FSC system. The Annual Administration Fee (AAF) was established to support FSC’s core functions and services for, the Certificate Holders (CH), and has not been adjusted since 2008.

From October 1st 2013, Mathieu Auger-Schwartzenberg is appointed as FSC’s Sub Regional Coordinator for Congo Basin. Mathieu will be based in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

On the invitation of the His Excellency Henri Djombo, Minister of Forestry and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Congo, an FSC delegation led by FSC’s Director General Kim Carstensen and including FSCs Regional Director for Africa, Chris Burchmore and the FSC Global Network Director, Gemma Boetekees, visited stakeholders in The Republic of Congo from 17 to 20 July 2013. The visit by FSC covered Brazzaville and Pokola, centre of the FSC certified forest concessions of Congolaise Industrie de Bois (CIB) of OLAM.