The evaluation of Artvin Forestry Enterprise in certification process

The concept of ?sustainability?, which was re-dealt after the Biological Diversity (BD) Agreement signed in Rio, has been shaped by criteria and indicators (C&I) under the name of ?Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)?. As the world forestry was being re-shaped after Rio, each process produced regional forestry sector and SFM, C&I sets, which are convenient with traditional lifestyles and the forestry settlement of the countries. Turkey, due to its geographical location, has formed a unique set, which is convenient to the traditional forestry settlement, by blending the criteria and indicator sets of Pan-European and Near East processes. While SFM and C&I sets are used for the control of forestry actions in universal measures, the states of the countries which organized many meetings with the presidents and their improvement are presented in the reports that are prepared in local, regional and continental scales. Besides SFM, the Certification System, which uses similar criteria and indicators as the SFM, brings prestige to the forestry and has a volunteer process and self-control device, emerged almost in the period with BD. These two important devices that ensure to evaluate forestry activities in quantity and quality are the main subjects of this paper.In the application process, studies were conducted in two different scales. In the first, Saçinka Forestry Department (SFD) has been compared with regards to the last two-year plan period data and stand parameters. By analyzing the records of the SFD, the data that belong to the last three years were evaluated according to SFM and C&I. In the second, the data that belong to Artvin Forestry Department (AFD) were evaluated according to the SFM and C&I set. By considering some criteria of Forest Steawardship Council (FSC), the data acquired according to SFM and C&I were re-considered and the place of AFD in certification process was introduced. AFD has to be chained according to the standards of the related certification institution, which provides data for SFM and C&I sets, in order to receive a certificate.