Overview
First published in 1996, CAN/CSA-Z809-08 (R2013) - Sustainable Forest Management is Canada’s national Standard for sustainable forest management (SFM). This Standard is helping address the unique needs of Canada’s forestry sector, its unique public ownership structure, and its various stakeholder communities: consumers, environmental groups, government, industry, First Nations and academia.
CSA Z809 was developed according to the internationally recognized Helsinki and Montreal processes and has been recognized as a National Standard of Canada by Standards Council of Canada (SCC). It incorporates Canada’s own national SFM criteria, developed by the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, as well as locally-adapted indicators developed through public consultation. The standard links adaptive forest management to forest certification through performance, public participation and system requirements. At the end of 2013 over 25% of the 150 million hectares of certified forests in Canada had been registered using the CSA Z809 standard**. For more information go to Canadian Sustainable Forest Management.
**www.certificationcanada.org as of Dec 31/13
Preface
This is the third edition of CSA Z809, Sustainable forest management. It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2002 under the title Sustainable Forest Management: Requirements and Guidance, which superseded both CAN/CSA-Z808, A Sustainable Forest Management System: Guidance Document, and CAN/CSA-Z809, A Sustainable Forest Management System: Specifications Document, published in 1996.
This Standard describes the requirements for sustainable forest management (SFM) of a defined forest area (DFA). The Standard outlines the requirements for a forest manager or owner wishing to implement the public participation, system requirements, and performance requirements for a DFA. It includes requirements for public participation, performance, management systems, review of actions, monitoring of effectiveness, and continual improvement. This Standard also outlines the auditing process used to determine whether SFM requirements are implemented at the DFA level. While this Standard provides guidance to users regarding certification, requirements for certification and decisions regarding approval rest with the certification bodies.
A second standard, CSA Z804, is intended for use by woodlot owners or managers of forests up to 4000 hectares.
This Standard is considered suitable for use for conformity assessment within the stated scope of the Standard.
This Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee on Sustainable Forest Management, under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Business Management and Sustainability, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. It will be submitted to the Standards Council of Canada for approval as a National Standard of Canada.
Scope
1.1
This Standard specifies requirements for sustainable forest management (SFM) of a defined forest area (DFA), including requirements for
(a) the management framework;
(b) commitment;
(c) public participation;
(d) performance measures and targets;
(e) the systematic review of actions;
(f) the monitoring of effectiveness; and
(g) continual improvement.
1.2
In CSA Standards, shall is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; should is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; may is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the standard; and can is used to express possibility or capability. Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material. Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements. Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.
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