The group certification allows to involve a group of forest owners around a Group Entity to form a Certification Group, which voluntarily submits to an evaluation process carried out by an Accredited Certification Entity, which will verify that The management of the forest lands included complies with the Spanish standard of forest management for the FSC^® certification and with the other applicable norms that underlie the FSC itself. In compliance with Standard FSC-STD-30-005 (V1-0) EN, the Group Entity must be an independent legal entity or an individual interpreted as a legal entity. In the case of the BIESQUES CERTIFICATION GROUP, this role will be assumed by Biesca Agroforestal y Medioambiente, S.L.

The BIESQUES group entity has the Forest Management / Chain of Custody group certificate registration code, NC-FM / COC-021968, as well as a FSC trademark license code, FSC-C125951, belonging to Biesca Agroforestal y Medioambiente, S.L.

The certification will be valid from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2020.