Environmental Adequacy and Certification

Treating more broadly the environment, covering not only the natural environment but also goods created and built by humanity, the law has set juridical-environmental values and sanctions for any individual or corporation who infringes the rules. Environmental Legislation can not be mistaken with Environmental Law. The law deals with something greater than the legislation on a particular subject, the Forest Law is the set of principles and legal rules that intent the preservation, conservation, development, management and forest resources use.

The Environmental Adequacy said in this topic relates to the matters connected to Forest and Environmental Legislation, the need for legal compliance and classification of the properties within the limitations that the legislation provides, not forgetting that the rights over the properties are not absolute. Among the main points that deal with this matter, and allied to the environmental agencies authority, the highlights are the Legal Reserves and the Permanent Preservation Areas.

The Fenix Consulting & Research, in this context, is capable to manage the legal issues involving the forests and rural properties, to several works in the administrative areas of environmental responsibility, acting directly with the agencies that compose the National System of Environment SISNAMA, such as, the Superior Council, CONAMA, the Department of Environment, IBAMA, Sectorial Agencies (Federal), Sectional Agencies (State) and Local Agencies (Municipal). Besides the works oriented to the forest and environmental management, other needs in terms of rural properties such as registration and certification with the INCRA (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform), the possession regularization, recovery of reserves and others are part of the scope of services.

Certification of Excellence is a set of activities developed by a body aiming to testify publicly, in writing, that a certain product, process or service is in compliance with the specified requirements, conditions that may be national or international. Forest Certification, concept that is applied both to planted and natural forests, is the affirmation of the good practices of forest management which essence of the systems technical content relates to the notion of sustainability according to its economic, social and environmental sizes. Several are the active forest certification systems to obtain the certification. Consumer markets increasingly demand that varied forest products be produced with wood whose means of production have been certified, this is a reality and an undeniable trend.

In the context of the various criteria that serve the main certificates authority, the fundamental principles that check the applications of the procedures and their indicators are: Compliance to the legislation; rational use of forest resources in short, medium and long terms in the search for its sustainability, zeal for the biological diversity; respect to water, soil and air; environmental, economic and social development of the regions in which the forest activity is inserted.

The Fenix Consulting & Research, by means of technicians and engineers, in cooperation with companies accredited by certificates authorities, plan and implement procedures to meet the guidelines of forest audits, being qualified for administrative management and to comply with the principles and criteria that must be observed on the certifications for systems such as the Forest Stewardship Council - FSC (Forest Management Council), Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes - PEFC Council and ABNT-CERFLOR (Brazilian Program of Forest Certification).

Whether for licensing and environmental issues or for demands of certification, our commitment and of all professionals involved in the themes is the development with excellence of the established businesses ensuring, therefore, the purposes of the investors.