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  • MFCC Secretary Participation in GLSTF 2026

    Posted by webmaster on 2026-11-03

    Barber Cho, Secretaryof MFCC, participated in the Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum 2026 (GLSTF 2026), held on 22–23 September 2026 at the Galaxy International Convention Centre in Macau, China. The forum was co-hosted by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and Macao’s Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), and

  • Under MFCC-ITTO Project, knowledge sharing Activities from July to December, 2025

    Posted by webmaster on 2026-01-12

    (a) Knowledge Sharing on the role of Forest Certification in Myanmar at UFES A knowledge-sharing session on Myanmar’s Forest Certification and its role in sustainable forest management took place at the University of Forestry and Environmental Science (Yezin) on September 11, 2025. A total of 124 fourth-year and final-year students

  • ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems (Part 1: Requirements)

    Posted by webmaster on 2025-12-31

    According to the Output (2) of MFCC-ITTO Project PP-A/56-342A, MFCC organized a Two-Day Training on “ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems (Part 1: Requirements)” in cooperation with Myanmar Accreditation Body (MAB). Output (2) is outlined as Capacity of key stakeholders. The

  • Myanmar Timber Legality Assurance System-MTLAS endorsed as Myanmar National Standard (MMS MTLAS 56: 2024 မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတရားဝင်သစ်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းအာမခံသည့်စနစ်)

    Posted by webmaster on 2025-07-04

    In line with the Standard Policy which governs Myanmar Timber Legality Assurance Systems (MTLAS), MFCC has carried out the revision process of MTLAS 2013. The public consultation was made to collect comments and suggestions from stakeholders for the revision of MTLAS. After the discussion, the draft version of MTLAS was

  • သီးခြားလွတ်လပ်သောအဖွဲ့ (Third Party Certification Body) များဖွဲ့စည်းဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ်ခြင်း

    Posted by webmaster on 2024-05-17

    ရက်စွဲ၊ ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်၊ မေလ ၁၃ ရက်။ ၁။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးကော်မတီ (Myanmar Forest Certification Committee-MFCC) သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးစနစ် (Myanmar Forest Certification Scheme – MFCS)ကို ထာဝစဉ်တည်တံ့စေသည့် သစ်တောစီမံအုပ်ချုပ်မှု Sustainable Forest Management အရ စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ထားသောသစ်တောများ (Certified Forests) ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထောက်ခံချက်ပေးနိုင်ရန် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ၂။ မြန်မာစံချိန်စံညွှန်းအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ထားရှိသော MMS 32:2022 သစ်တောအုပ်ချုပ်လုပ် ကိုင်မှုအတွက် ထောက်ခံချက်ပေးနိုင်ရန် မြန်မာ့စံနှင့်အညွှန်းများ “ MMS 32:2022 Myanmar Criteria and Indicators for Forest

  • Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management: A Collaboration Journey of MFCC in Vietnam together with Myanmar Accreditation Body(MAB) and Certification Bodies (CBs)

    Posted by webmaster on 2023-11-22

    In a significant step towards promoting sustainable forest practices and gaining international recognizing for the Certification Bodies of the Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC), the MFCC was engaged on a study tour to Vietnam alongside with the Accreditation Body of Myanmar (MAB) and the MFCC notified Certification Bodies. This collaborative

  • Myanmar Forest Certification Committee Delegation Participates in 26th ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry and Related Meetings

    Posted by webmaster on 2023-10-13

    Siem Reap, Cambodia – June 12-16, 2023 The Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC) show its commitment to sustainable forestry practices by sending a delegation to the 26th Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry and Related meetings. The event took place on June 12-16, 2023, in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

  • Acknowledgement to the stakeholders for the comments and suggestions of the MTLAS version 1.03 – 2022

    Posted by webmaster on 2023-07-20

    ၁။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပြုရေးကော်မတီ (Myanmar Forest Certification Committee - MFCC)သည် ITTOနှင့်ပူးပေါင်း၍ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ထာဝစဉ်တည်တံ့စေမည့် သစ်တောစီမံအုပ်ချုပ်လုပ်ကိုင် မှု (Sustainable Forest Management SFM) စံချိန်စံညွှန်းများနှင့် တရားဝင်သစ်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း မူဘောင် များ ပိုမိုခိုင်မာလာစေရန်ရည်ရွယ်၍ "STRENGTHENING SFM STANDARDS AND TIMBER LEGALITY FRAMEWORK IN MYANMAR" စီမံကိန်းအား အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ MFCC သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် သစ်တောထောက်ခံချက်ပေးခြင်းကိစ္စရပ်များအား စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ကွပ်ကဲရသည့် အဖွဲ့ အစည်း(National Governing Body) ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ MFCC သည် ထာဝစဥ်တည်တံ့စေသောသစ်တော စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်မှုနှင့်တရားဝင်သစ်များကို ထောက်ခံချက်များထုတ်ပေးနိုင်ရေးအတွက် လုပ်ဆောင်လျက် ရှိပါသည်။

  • Integration of Digitalization of Timber Tracking Systems (DTTS) and Sawmill visit to the private company

    Posted by webmaster on 2022-12-01

      During the MFCC-ITTO Project “Strengthening SFM Standards and Timber Legality Framework in Myanmar”; Digitalised Timber Tracking System’ Technical Working Group was formed with (20) members and review the existing QR Code system that Myanmar Timber Enterprise practiced and conducts the Meeting monthly. The team also accomplished the assessment report

  • MFCC provide support and briefing of the basic level awareness raising training workshop for “MMS 32:2022 Myanmar criteria and indicators for Forest Management Certification”

    Posted by webmaster on 2022-11-25

      Myanmar Forest Certification Committee is committing on support and develop the Certified Forest in order to provide assistance for private plantations, natural forests and community forest user groups owned by local and forest owners. MFCC submitted “Myanmar Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification Standard (2020)” to the Standards