Australian Forest Certification Scheme from Australian Forestry Standard works on key elements. The Australian Forest Certification Scheme from Australian Forestry Standard promotes the culture of continuous improvement of sustainable forest management practices. The Australian Forest Certification Scheme from Australian Forestry Standard is based on Australia’s conformity assessment framework.

The key elements of The Australian Forest Certification Scheme includes the Australian forestry standards, chain of custody standard, the JAS-ANZ Australian forestry standard certification program, the logo use rules manuals and the JAS-ANZ product certification program. The Australian standard was prepared by Australian Forestry Standard Technical reference committee of Australian Forestry Standard.

Certain other documents also support the Australian Forest Certification Scheme including the report benchmarking the Australian forestry standard, Australian and Canadian sustainable forest management standards. The strength of Australian Forest Certification Scheme is the separation of elements of certification scheme like accreditation, certification and development.

The elements of accreditation, certification and developments from Australian Forest Certification Scheme are undertaken by standards development, accreditation from the joint accreditation system of Australia and New Zealand.