Step 2. Company shall use timber only from well-managed forests

Step 2 starts only after all the requirements of Step 1 are fulfilled.

2.1. Company promotes development improvement of the system of areas set aside avoid sourcing from.

· if no credible and recognized by scientific and nongovernmental environmental communities map of high conservation value forests important from the standpoint of biodiversity conservation (HCVF) exists at the regional level, the company shall initiate the process of identification of such forests or actively promote it;

· company within its competence shall provide the openness of the process of HCVF criteria development as well as development and implementation of HCVF identification and management programs;

· in case if HCVF are identified within the whole supply area (particular leskhoz or leasehold area), the company shall develop and implement а special program for conservation use of such forests.

2.2. Company does not buy timber from the following 1st group forest categories, in which industrial logging (final felling) is legally prohibited:

· forest protecting spawning grounds of valuable fish;

· valuable forest areas;

· reserved forest areas;

· subtundra forests.

2.3. Company procures timber only from areas, which fulfill at least the following criteria as а first step towards good forest management:

· harvesting volumes for the whole supply area (Ieskhoz or leasehold area) should not lead to depletion of forest resource available for economic

exploitation during the whole rotation period;

· deforestation. Forest practices (e.g., large-size clearcuts), which lead to such

consequences, should within the reasonable term be replaced by environmentally sound practices in accordance to programs adopted by logging company;

· the preference should be given to those forestry practices, which exert the least adverse impact on biological and species diversity and environmental conditions of forest;

· reasonable and efficient system for prevention of human-induced fires shall exist for the whole supply area (leskhoz or leasehold area).

In order to fulfill these requirements:

2.4. Company and its suppliers should trace the geographic origin of its timber supply with sufficient geographic resolution and evaluate the fulfillment of these requirements in their supply areas (leskhoz or leasehold area).

· the procedure for evaluation of the following fulfillment of these requirements should be open so that interested parties can conduct independent evaluations of its efficiency;

· information on results of such assessments and on logging sites should be publicly available.

2.5. Company should clearly define persons in charge of these issues among its staff.

2.6. Company shall actively assist its suppliers to meet these requirements.

· the company should inform its suppliers on results of the evaluation how the last fulfill the requirements 2.1-2.3 and provide them with reasonable recommendations on how to meet these requirements;

· the company and their suppliers develop and approve a program for

introducing good forest management, implementation of which allows suppliers

to completely meet the requirements above within a reasonable timeframe;

· the company assists its suppliers in the implementation of such a transition program and timely verify its fulfillment;

· information on the results of assessment of program implementation by the company or its supplier should be available for all interested parties;

· if the supplier fails to fulfill the program, the company should refuse to procure timber from it.

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