02/04/2026
🌍 Call for nominations: Join the PEFC Sustainable Forest Management Working Group
PEFC is inviting stakeholders worldwide to nominate candidates for its Sustainable Forest Management Working Group (SFM WG).
We are currently looking to fill a limited number of seats across stakeholder categories, including:
🌲 Forest owners, managers, and forest-based industry
🔍 Certification bodies, PEFC scheme assessors, accreditation bodies, and consultants
🤝 Civil society representatives, including Indigenous Peoples, workers and trade unions, scientists, and environmental and social groups
The SFM WG plays a key role in developing PEFC standards, including recent alignment of the PEFC Sustainable Forest Management standard with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and addressing related emerging gaps and opportunities.
Established in early 2024, the group is currently finalising an additional appendix to PEFC SFM standard, focusing on the development of safeguards and advanced requirements to address forest conversion between 2010 (the original PEFC cut-off date) and 2020 (the EUDR cut-off date).
📅 Deadline for nominations: 22 April 2026
PEFC is committed to balanced stakeholder representation and encourages nominations that reflect diversity in gender and geographic background.
👉 Find out more and submit your nomination: https://treee.es/sfm-wg-call26