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activities to attenuate the impacts and the following stands out amongst them: (a) soil preservation
activities; (b) works to recover degraded areas; (c) surveys to seek techniques and equipments that are
adequate to the local conditions, etc. All the measures that have been specified are meant to surpass
mere alignment to the legislation and prevent impacts controlling their main causes. All the measures
that are meant to control environmental degradation are improved and/or altered according to the
observations in the field and the monitoring results.
Social Impacts:
There is a specific program in place to manage social impacts. Such a program is meant to identify and
address the impacts, improve the social relationship and work process to maximize the FME
forthcoming investment in social issues.
The program is based on primary results surveys and evaluations that had been carried out in the FMU
(neighboring communities, the people who dwell in the farm borders and direct staff and contractors)
and on secondary surveys (inputs collected at city halls, IBGE, state education secretaries and health
ministry).
Attenuating measures have been determined and implemented for the negative impacts whereas
enhancing measures have been adopted for the positive ones - social programs and operational
controlling measures are encompassed as well.
Costs, Productivity, and Efficiency:
An assumption of all the costs involved (including the ones that linked to the required infrastructure
improvement, forestry operations, workforce, equipments, maintenance and forest and biodiversity
preservation) are taken into account in the short, medium and long-term forest management planning.
The values that are assumed on a monthly basis are compared and discussed in managerial meetings.
The forest management efficiency and the quality of the operational activities are constantly monitored.
3. Certification Evaluation Process
3.1 Evaluation Schedule and Team
3.1.1 Evaluation Itinerary and Activities
Date: July 24, 2017
FMU / Location / sites visited
Activities / notes
FME Office in Caçador (Santa
Catarina)
An opening meeting was held for the introductions, provide an
update about FSC and SCS Standard and Protocols, revise the
auditing plan and scope, choose the sites that were to be inspected
and revise the pending CARs and OBS;
Paperwork pertinent to the FME own farms and the ones that are
administrated under leasing was audited;
The measures that have been taken to address CARs and OBS issued
as a result of the previous audit were analyzed;
The FME top management was interviewed.
Caçador Rural Labor Union
Stakeholder consultation
FATMA (Environmental
Foundation) in Caçador.
Stakeholder consultation
Date: July 25, 2017
FMU / Location / sites visited
Activities / notes