This Technical Report is designed to be used in conjunction with ISO 14001 and ISO 14004. It provides a link between the management system approach of ISO 14001 and the range of forest policy and forest management performance objectives, including SFM principles and intergovernmental Criteria & Indicators, that a forestry organization can consider. It also provides references to the ISO 14000 series of International Standards, application of forestry laws and regulations, and the other matters that a forestry organization can take into consideration as it implements an environmental management system.

This Technical Report, like ISO 14001, does not propose any forestry-specific requirements. Its content is not normative in any sense, but is intended to be informative. Moreover, it does not establish performance levels for forest management. This Technical Report therefore cannot form the basis for environmental performance claims and does not create a product label.

Scope

This Standard sets out the process for estimating and reporting greenhouse gas removals and emissions from forest projects over a set period of time as a result of afforestation and reforestation activities.
The Standard is intended to facilitate the consistent estimation and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest projects, and the verification of estimation and reporting processes
Future Parts of the AS 4978 series may address emissions and removals from forest projects as a result of activities other than afforestation and reforestation.

This PAS is applicable to any organization that wishes to:

• implement and maintain a product integrity management system;

• assure itself of its conformance with its stated policy;

• demonstrate such conformance to others.

This PAS is applicable to any aspect of the production or condition of primary products over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control, including for example one or more of the following items: food safety issues, food quality attributes, contaminants, genetically modified organisms, organic or other production practices, ethical and/or religious issues, animal welfare and geographical origin.

This PAS covers all agri-food sector activities, including base input suppliers (for example, seeds or animals and crop nutrients or animal feedstuffs) primary production (for example, crop and animal husbandry on farms and grower’s holdings) storage sites and other primary product handling, treatment or preparation facilities.

NOTE 1 All the requirements of this PAS are intended to be incorporated into any product integrity management system. The extent of the application will depend on factors such as the nature of the production activities and the nature and size of the organization.

NOTE 2 The extent of the application of this PAS needs to be clearly defined by careful identification of the issue(s) over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control, including for example the codes of practice and industry guidelines to which the organization subscribes.

Provides a unifying integrated system to assure primary product integrity in the agri-food chain. To be use in conjunction with specific performance criteria and/or product attributes over which the organization wishes to demonstrate effective control.