fold faq Are there different types of chain of custody certification?
Yes. Small enterprises may form or join a group of operations and apply for group chain of custody certification. FSC has specifically designed Group CoC certification to make CoC certification accessible to small operations for which individual CoC certification may be too costly. Larger companies operating at multiple locations can, if they comply with certain requirements, choose to apply for multi-site chain of custody certification. This makes use of elements of scale and thus is more economical than to seek a separate certificate for each site. Both, group and multi-site CoC certification, allows certification bodies to evaluate participating operations or sites based on samples in recognition of existing common, centrally administered and monitored control and reporting systems and thereby reduce the auditing costs. FSC project certification is a non-bureaucratic way to get one-off and complex products FSC certified without each involved participant having to become individually
