A total of 74 individual comments were received from stakeholders comprising of representatives from forestry departments, companies, timber industry associations, social and environment NGOs, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, workers’ unions, certification bodies, universities and consultants.
In general, stakeholders provided suggestions including both specific changes to the standards and general improvements, sought clarification on general and standards-specific issues as well as provided their opinions. The majority 58 comments (or 79%) were specific to the Principles and Criteria. One comment (1%) was received on the annexes and 15 (19%) were general comments.
Report on formal comments for Malaysia’s NFSS Draft 2-0: (insert download link to attached PDF file here)