First Draft of the Revised FSC Risk Assessment for Austria - Date of Draft 22 Nov 2024

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First Draft of the revised FSC risk assessment for Austria, drafted on 22 Nov 2024, documents the update process, authorship, and the planned scope for evaluating risk across the wood and non-timber forest product supply chain. It references the existing FSC National Risk Assessment for Austria and sets geographical coverage for Austria. The assessment framework covers EUDR Annex 1 product scope, EUDR/FSC product classification mappings, and indicator-based risk designations, including negligible risk for most indicators and nonnegligible risk for indicator 55, supported by subsequent thematic sections and references.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages134

Reading Time5 h 38 min

AccessFree to download

Country Overview

Supply Chain

Geo political scales

Source types

Assessment of Indicators

Land use and management

Taxes and fees

Corruption and document or data falsification

Management activities and environmental protection

Health and safety

Human and labour rights

Third parties rights

Trade and transport

Conversion and forest degradation

High Conservation Values

Genetically modified organisms

References

Legislation

First Draft of the revised FSC Risk Assessment for Austria Date of draft 22. Nov 2024 | Authors | | --- | | Name: Ulrich Malessa
Organization and position: Individual consultant
Role: Process lead
Email address: [uli@sehralteshaus.de](uli@sehralteshaus.de)
The Process lead has proven skills in project management, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, facilitation and output-focussed work, e.g. he was the coordinator of the former FSC Risk Assessment for Austria as well as for Germany. He holds an MSc title (Diplom-Forstwirt) of the German University of Freiburg as well asan MBA on Sustainability Management of the University of L¸neburg. He has more than 25 years of work experience in timber trade and certification, wildlife conservation, rural development and international process on nature and climate protection (CITES, CBD, UNFCCC) . During 15 years he was the FSC market development lead for Germany and Austria, and leads currently the section on international and national projects of a German NGO to protect the
Qualifications: tropical forests. | | Name: Dr. Bernhard Wolfslehner
Organization and position: Individual consultant
Role: Country specialist .
The Country Specialist holds a PHD degree on forestry from the University f¸r Bodenkunde (BOKU) of Vienna. He is a leading expert on forest policy and connected fields such as forest control, forestryrelated conservation and forest economics, holding outstanding work positions at the BOKU as well as with the European Forestry Institute. He consulted the Austrian government as well as European level collaboration bodies such as Forest Europe ministerial conference. He has more than 25 years of experience.
Email address: [b.wolfslehner@gmx.at](b.wolfslehner@gmx.at)
Qualifications: MSc / PHD in forestry, leading forest policy expert | | Reference of document to be revised | | --- | | Title of the existing risk assess
ment to be revised: FSC National Risk Assessment for Austria
Code: FSC-NRA-AT V1-0
URL: [https://connect.fsc.org/document-centre/documents/resource/371](https://connect.fsc.org/document-centre/documents/resource/371)
Approval date of the risk as
sessment to be revised: 03. Apr 18
Review due date of the exist
ing risk assessment: May 2023
Date of the decision to start
the revision process: 19. Aug 24 | 1 | Scope | | | --- | --- | | Product/commodity scope | EUDR Annex 1: Wood, all relevant products | | (from EUDR Annex 1/): | paper products (P1-10), and all Non-Timber-Forest-Products (N1- 10), except for those that naturally are not growing in Austria such as rubber (N7 . 1), cork (N3), rattan (N4), bamboo (N5), and palm hearts (N9.3) | | Geographical scope (country/countries): | Austria | Content: Country Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Supply Chain ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Geo poli}cal scales ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Source types ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 Assessment of Indicators ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Land use and management ............................................................................................................................... 11 Taxes and fees ...........................................................................

FAQs

What is the document’s purpose and status?

It is the first draft of a revised FSC Risk Assessment for Austria, dated 22 Nov 2024.

Which products and geographical area are covered?

The scope covers EUDR Annex 1: wood and all relevant products, with geographical coverage limited to Austria.

How are risks assigned across indicators?

For all indicators, risk is assigned as negligible, except indicator 55, which is assigned as nonnegligible.

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