MFCC News and Articles

This section contains MFCC news, Press Releases, and general updates and articles of interest and relevance to MFCC, timber legality and sustainable forest management (SFM) issues in Myanmar.

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  • Vacancy announcement for International Consultant of MFCC-ITTO Project

    Issue Date : 20th June 2022 Deadline : 20th July 2022 Project : STRENGTHENING SFM STANDARDS AND TIMBER LEGALITY FRAMEWORK IN MYANMAR (PP – A/56 – 342A) Funding : Forestry Agency of Japan (FAJ) Country : Myanmar Duration : 6 months working period from the starting date Working days :

  • MFCS: Open for public comment from the Department of Research and Innovation (DRI)

    မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးကော်မတီ (Myanmar Forest Certification Committee) သည် အောက်ဖော်ပြပါ စနစ် ၂ ခုအား ရေးဆွဲ အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ၁။ Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme (MFCS) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးစနစ် ၂။ Myanmar Timber Legality Assurance System (MTLAS) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတရားဝင်သစ်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းအာမခံသည့်စနစ် ဖော်ပြပါ စနစ်(၂)ခုအနက် MFCS (Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme) ကို PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) မှ အသိအမှတ်ပြုနိုင်ရေး endorsement ရရှိနိုင်ရန် ဆောင်ရွက်ဆဲဖြစ်ပါသည်။ MFCS ကို

  • PEFC suspends assessment of Myanmar Forest Certification System; Open for Public Consultation: Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme

    Stakeholders from around the world are invited to give their feedback on the Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme. Deadline for comments is 14 October 2021. From the PEFC international website you can Give your feedback now! The Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC), the PEFC national member for Myanmar, has applied for

  • Introduction to the Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme (MFCS)

    The Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC) is the National Governing Body of the PEFC international. MFCC has applied for the PEFC endorsement of the country’s national forest certification system, the Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme. The public consultation, which is your chance to give your feedback on this new system, will

  • ITTO Awards a Project to MFCC

    ITTO and MFCC signed the contract for the project on “ Strengthening SFM Standards and Timber Legality Framework in Myanmar” which is scheduled to commence on 1st FEB 2021 for two years. The project is funded by the Forestry Agency of Japan. The project will enhance and strengthen sustainable forest

  • Acknowledgement to the stakeholders for the comments and suggestions of the MFCS SFM standard

    ၁။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးကော်မတီ (Myanmar Forest Certification Committee - MFCC) သည် သစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပေးခြင်းကိစ္စရပ်များအား အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန် Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation အကူအညီဖြင့် Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) နှင့်ပူးပေါင်း၍

  • MFCC updates for the stakeholders webinar

      Date: 7th December 2020 Time: 2:00PM – 4:00PM (Myanmar Standard Time) The webinar has been attended by the range of participants and representatives including Chairman of the MFCC (Permanent Secretary of the MONREC) , Director General and Senior Officers from Myanmar Forest Department, Managing Director and Senior Officers from

  • Third MFCC Sub-Committee meeting for review/revise of MTLAS

    Third Sub-Committee meeting for review and revise of the MTLAS First and foremost, our hearts are with those who have been affected by the COVID-19. As for safety, health and wellbeing are one of the top priorities for the MFCC members and stakeholders and in response to the unprecedented challenges

  • Sixth Myanmar Forest Certification Committee Meeting

    Sixth MFCC Meeting Date: 16th March 2020 Venue: Director General Office, Gyogone Forest Compound Sixth MFCC meeting has been held at the Director-General Office, Gyogone Forest Compound. MFCC members, as well as the staff from the MFCC-PEFC project, have been attended. Additionally, different stakeholders and members from Forest Department, Myanma