RSPO announces 2nd Round Public Consultation on ‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification of FFB Production’ (Version 2; March 2015)

The public consultation period lasts 60 days, from the 07th of May 2015 until including 06th of July 2015. Only comments submitted using this template will be accepted.

We invite comments for the following documents:

1.     ‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification of FFB Production’ (Version 2; March 2015)

2.     RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification

Please send your comments template to the following address by end of day 06th of July 2015[email protected]

Additionally to the online submission of comments a series of public consultation workshops is being organised. Following successful public consultation workshops in Kuala Lumpur, Accra and Quito during the first round of public consultation for this document from Nov 2014- Jan 2015, the workshops in this second round will take place in Jakarta, Bogotá and Abidjan on the following dates:

Jakarta, Indonesia 27th of May 2015 (Please contact Jaya Kanniah [email protected] / Imam El Marzuq [email protected] if you would like further information)

Bogotá, Colombia 11th of June 2015 (Favor de contactar a Francisco Naranjo [email protected]  si requiere más informaciones)

Abidjan, Ivory Coast 26th of June 2015 (Pour des renseignements supplémentaires veuillez contacter Bilge Daldeniz [email protected])

The documents, as well as the comments templates, can be downloaded here

‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification…Ver 2,March’15 (ENG)

‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification…Ver 2,March’15 (FRE)

‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification…Ver 2,March’15 (IDN)

‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification…Ver 2,March’15 (SPA)

‘DRAFT – RSPO Management System Requirements and Guidance for Group Certification…Ver 2,March’15 (THA)

RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification (ENG)

RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification (FRE)

RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification (IDN)

RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification (SPA)

RSPO Certification Systems – New subsection on Group Certification (THA)

Comments Template (Word Format) (ENG)

Comments Template (Word Format) (FRE)

Comments Template (Word Format) (IDN)

Comments Template (Word Format) (SPA)

Comments Template (pdf) (ENG)

Comments Template (pdf) (FRE)

Comments Template (pdf) (IDN)

Comments Template (pdf) (SPA)

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