The National Standard for Forest Management is developed by a Standard Development Group accredited by FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) International. In Romania, the Standard Development Group obtained the accreditation in June 2014.
The Standard Development Group is divided in three chambers: Environmental, Economic and Social, with at least three members in each chamber. The SDG members have equal voting rights in the Standard development process.
The SDG members were selected based on:
a) relevant experience in their field activity
b) previous experience in working with standards and procedures (the FSC certification system was an advantage)
c) experience in working with stakeholders, including the ability to review their comments and to answer them
d) understanding of and support for the mission and vision of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council).
There are nine members of the Romanian Standard Development Group, three for each chamber, as follows:
Buzea Andreea Liana –Asociatia EcoAssist
Graduate of the Faculty of Management within the University of Bucharest, she has an experience of over ten years in environmental and social projects.
She is the founder and coordinator of the national projects “Planting Good Deeds in Romania” and “The Tree Store”.
President of the Association EcoAssist, she initiated the campaign with national impact “Let’s do it Romania!”
Dr. Stancioiu Tudor – Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, Tudor Stancioiu has a doctorate degree in Environmental Management, Policy and Sciences of the prestigious Berkeley University of California. At present he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov where he teaches Forest Ecology.
For the last ten years he has been involved in the preparation and identification of the HCVFs for obtaining the FSC certificate in more than five forest management units. He is one of the most active specialists who contributed in the development of the HCVF Guidelines for Romania.
Vlad Radu – WWF Romania Danube Carpathian Programme Association
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, he has an experience of over ten years in forestry. He represents the WWF Romania Danube Carpathian Programme Association. His current position is that of Coordinator for Forest Programmes. He developed and implemented projects at local, national and regional levels for promoting the FSC certification as a reliable instrument for the promotion of a responsible forest management. He has been actively involved in the FSC certification process for the state and private forests of local communities in Romania, taking part in the certification of over 2.5 million ha. He coordinated and contributed as forestry expert in the development of the Practical Guide for the Identification and Management of the High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) in Romania, Second edition.
Dr. Viorel Gheorghe Marinescu – Physical person
Forestry engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Forestry at the University “Transilvania” in Brasov.
Since 2008 he has a doctorate, awarded by the same university.
He has extensive practical experience in forestry, between 1979-1999 he worked as a forestry engineer in the Valcea Forest Inspectorate and chief to Dragasani Forest Management Unit (Valcea Forestry Division).
Another long period of professional activity was carried on in the Ministry of Water, Environment and Forests (later the Ministry of Agriculture), where he held the position of General Manager.
In present he is an associated lecturer at the “Transilvania” University from Brasov.
Mihaila Laurentiu – National Forest Administration – ROMSILVA
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, he has an experience of over ten years in applied forestry in Romania within the Prahova Forest Directorate. At present he is responsible for the FSC certification of the forest management in the National Forest Administration – ROMSILVA, coordinating the process at national level. RNP – ROMSILVA is the manager of over 2.5 million ha of forests certified in compliance with both the forest management standard and the controlled wood standard.
Moisa Constantin – Professional Association of Forestry Services Contractors
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, he has an experience of over ten years in forest management planning, GIS, environment assessment, afforestation through the company he is running (IRISILVA).
He is a member of the working group on National Risk Assessment for Controlled Wood in Romania, an environment evaluator accredited by the Ministry for the Environment and a technical expert in forestry accredited by the Ministry of Justice. He was involved as an expert in the development of the Guide for the Identification of the HCVF in Romania, second edition and in the preparations for obtaining the FSC certification of private and state forest management organisatons in Romania.
Dr. Boroica Ioan –Maramures Museum
He has a doctorate degree in culture history, in History Institute of the Romanian Academy “George Baritiu” in Cluj-Napoca. He has a master degree in Ethnology and Social Anthropology granted by the North University of Baia Mare.
At present he is a curator in the Maramures Museum in Sighetu-Marmatiei. Along the time he has been involved in several ethnology and sociology projects. He cooperated with WWF in the development of the Guide for the Identification of the HCVF in Romania, second edition, categories 5 and 6.
Mihai Dorina – Brasov Metropolitan Agency for Sustainable Development
Dorina Mihai is a project manager of Brasov Agency for Sustainable Development. The agency was founded in order to represent the interests of the inhabitants of Brasov town and its surroundings and to contribute to the sustainable development of the country central area together with the local communities.
She has an experience of at least ten years as project manager in the environmental and social fields.
Rati Longin – CONSILVA
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, he has an experience of over 30 years in the Romanian forestry.
At present he is deputy president of CONSILVA trade-union and represents the interests of the Romanian forestry operators. He is in charge with the Work Health and Safety within the Maramures Forest Directorate.
Apart from the development of the standard, the Standard Development Group is responsible for the establishment of a Consultative Forum in compliance with Standard FSC-STD-60-006 V1-2 “Process requirements for the development and maintenance of National Forest Stewardship Standards”.
The role of the Consultative Forum is to ensure that all those interested in or affected by the Standard implementation have the opportunity to officially send their standard-related comments during the process.
The Consultative Forum will be informed on and consulted at each stage of the standard development (draft completion, field testing, etc.).
Participation as a member of the Consultative Forum is open to any stakeholder, based on a written application officially addressed to the SDG at the address: [email protected].
The Standard Development Group encourages representative stakeholders to join the Consultative Forum.
ATTENTION!
THE PROCESS OF JOINING THE CONSULTATIVE FORUM IS OPEN!
The Standard Development Group or the Facilitator may appeal to technical experts for the SDG’s meetings for the development of the Forest Management National Standard when necessary. Such technical experts may take part in and contribute to the discussions within the Standard Development Group but their role is mainly of technical consultancy, they have no decision-making role.
For Draft 1-0, at the SDG’s meetings for the development of the Forest Management National Standard the technical expert invited to participate was:
Mr. Iorgu Oliviuon behalf of the certification body “Soil Association Certification Ltd”.
Iorgu Oliviu is graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, with over ten years’ experience in working with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) standards. He is qualified as Lead auditor for Forest Management, Chain of Custody and Controlled wood and has carried out over 300 audits so far.
The Facilitator is responsible for communication, mailing and reporting to the FSC Policy and Standards Committee of FSC International.
The facilitator coordinates and facilitates the SDG meetings and prepares the agenda and the related technical documentation. He makes sure that all members have the possibility to express their point of view on the standard, in order to reach consensus.
Other roles:
The Facilitator of the FSC National Standard Development Group for Forest Management is Marius Turtica.
Turtica Marius – the Association for Forest Certification (AFC)
Graduate of the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering of Brasov, he has an experience of over ten years in working with the FSC standards and policies.
Between 2007 and 2011 he was the FSC Contact person for Romania, and at present he is running the Association for Forest Certification which aims at promoting the responsible forest management through the reliable FSC certification system.
He is the coordinator of the working group on National Risk Assessment for Controlled Wood in Romania.
He has an experience of over ten years in the FSC certification, in which he was involved in audits and consultancy.
SDG (Standard Development Group) will organize a debate on: Practical Recommendations for Implementing the National Standard FSC® for forest management, on 6 June 2019 in Brasov.
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With the opportunity of launching the FSC® National Forest Stewardship Standard of Romania (FSC-STD-ROU-01-2017 EN), the Standard Development Group (SDG) organized an event dedicated to presenting the elaboration process and its provisions..
Following the requests received from stakeholders with activity at national and international levels, the FSC Standard Development Group for Romania has extended the period of the public consultation on the FSC National Standard for Forest Management in Romania (Draft 2-0) until the date of 25.09.2016
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The Standard Development Group of the FSC® (FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL)® National Standard for Forest Management organized, on the date of 28.01.2016, the public consultation on Draft 1-1 of the FSC National Standard for Forest Management, in the Aula of „Transilvania” University of Brasov.
The Standard Development Group of the FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) National Standard for Forest Management invites you on 28.01.2016 at 10:00 a.m. in the Aula of „Transilvania” University of Brasov, Room U17, at the public consultation on Version 1-1 of the FSC National Standard for Forest Management.
Dear all,
Following the requests received from stakeholders with activity at national and international levels, the FSC Standard Development Group for Romania has extended the period of the public consultation on the FSC National Standard for Forest Management in Romania (Draft 1-0) until the date of 15.12.2015.
The FSC Standard Development Group for Romania, accredited by FSC International in 2014, invites you to send, beginning with the date of September 15th, 2015 your comments on the provisions of the FSC National Standard for Forest Management in Romania DRAFT 1-0.