ANNEX 1: TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS BY COUNTRY AND MARK

The use of any FSC trademark shall be directly accompanied by the trademark symbols ®, ™ (in superscript
font), or no symbol which represent the registration status of an FSC trademark in a country in which FSC
certified products or promotional materials are intended to be distributed.

FSC REGULAR TRADEMARKS

Country FSC Forest

Stewardship
Council

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, ® ® ®

Chile, China1, Colombia, Ecuador,
European Union (EU: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
2 3
Croatia, Cyprus , Czech Republic, Denmark , Estonia,
4 5
Finland , France , Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The
6 7
Netherlands , Poland, Portugal , Romania, Slovakia,
8
Slovenia, Spain , Sweden and the United Kingdom),
India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New
Zealand,
OAPI (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania,
Niger, Senegal and Togo),
Panama, Paraguay, South Africa, Switzerland,
USA9, Venezuela
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) No symbol No symbol No symbol
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan
Costa Rica TM TM ®
Hong Kong TM TM ®
Peru ® ® TM
Russia ® No symbol ®
South Korea TM TM ®
Uruguay ® ® TM
Vietnam ® ® TM
Other countries10/ global distribution TM TM TM

1 Please use TM symbol in Chinese Taipei and Macau, as jurisdiction for trademark registration is not governed by PRC.
2 Please use the ® for any trademark use in the part belonging to the Republic of Cyprus as it has full EU Trademark protection. Please use the TM
symbol in the northern part of the territory which is under the sovereignty of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as it is not part of the EU.
3 Greenland and Faroe Islands do not have EU Trademark protection; The TM symbol shall be used.
4 Aland Islands are included as part of EU Community Trademark protection. The ® symbol shall be used.
5 The ® symbol shall be used in the French overseas departments (Départements et régions d’outre-mer - DROM) of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion

and Guyane. The French overseas territories (territoires d’outre mer – TOM) French Polynesia, Mayotte, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre
and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna are not protected by the EU Community Trademark protection. Please use the TM symbol in these states.
6 Please use the TM symbol in these states: Curacao, Saint Martin, Bonaire and St. Eustatius, as they do not have EU Trademark protection.
7 The ® symbol shall be used in the Azores and Madeira as they are protected under EU Trademark protection, as they are considered part of

Portuguese sovereignty.
8 The ® symbol shall be used in the Canary Islands and Ceuta and Melilla as they have EU Trademark protection.
9 The US Trademark protection also extends to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Federated State of Micronesia and

Midway Islands. The symbols as set in the USA shall be used.

10 Please bear in mind that this table is subject to further development and will be updated periodically.
 FOREST-FOR-ALL-FOREVER TRADEMARKS

Country Full Mark Logo-and-text Language Symbol

All countries; please see
below a list of countries
where also other
language versions may English TM
be used along or instead
of the English version.

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile,

EU, Guatemala,
Spanish TM
Honduras, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Peru

Brazil, EU
Portuguese TM

Canada, EU, Switzerland

French TM

EU, Switzerland
German TM

No
Russia Russian
symbol

Updated: April 2015