The forest industry considers it important that both of the widely accepted forestry standards, PEFC and FSC, can be used in Finland, the Finnish Forest Industries Federation writes in a press release.“Finnish companies have been certifying their overseas operations under both forest certification systems for quite some time. The FSC standard now being introduced in Finland will facilitate the marketing of products, which are made out of Finnish FSC-certified raw materials," says Anders Portin, who heads the Forests and Environment division of the Finnish Forest Industries Federation.UPM is one of the companies which have started testing the new Finnish FSC standard. With this testing UPM wants to fully assess the costs and functionality of the indicators of the new Finnish FSC standard. The results of UPM's own testing are expected to be ready by the end of this year. Based on the results UPM will decide whether it will apply for FSC certification in its own forests in Finland.