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Fair Trade Certification
Getting certified Fair Trade is no small or easy feat. The certification process involves many steps, copious amounts of paperwork, and continual follow-up - making sure to have dotted every "i" and crossed every "t." Below is a collection of information and links, designed to assist farmer groups in navigating the process of certification.
Before producer groups embark on the long and arduous task of becoming certified, it's important to weigh the pros and cons (and costs!)...especially given the current context of FLO and Fair Trade. Though FLO has historically dominated and monopolized the term, we encourage our partners to consider other options as well and not assume that FLO is the only true and legitimate way. Many of the organic certifiers, for example, include a component of social responsibility -- depending on the demands of the buyer and the market, this could potentially be a viable alternative...that also would save the cooperative double certification costs!
FLO
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FLO ("Fairtrade Labelling Organization"), based in Bonn, Germany, is responsible for setting the standards of the "Fair Trade Certified" label. It is comprised of 19 Fairtrade Labelling Initiatives (23 countries) which license the Fairtrade Certification Mark on products. Producer Networks are the regional associations of producer groups that have been certified -- there are three: the African Fairtrade Network, the Coordinator of Fairtrade Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Network of Asian Producers. |
Learn about FLO's Standards here
Read the Generic Standards (apply to all FT producers)
Read the Coffee Product Standards for Small-scale Producers
See FLO's Minimum Price and Fairtrade Premium table
FLO-CERT
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FLO-CERT is independent of the labelling organization and acts as an international certification company that works in over 70 countries to certify producer groups with the FLO label. Click here for an interactive (cartoon) guide to the application process... |
Compliance Criteria
FLO-CERT establishes its Compliance Criteria based on FLO's Standards (see above). These are "verifiable control points" from which FLO-CERT determines, at the time of inspection, whether a group can be certified or not.
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FLO
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FLO (“Fairtrade Labelling Organization”), basada en Bonn, Alemania, se encarga de crear los estándares para la etiqueta del Comercio Justo Certificado. Se compone de 20 iniciativas de la etiqueta del comercio justo (23 países) que autorizan el permiso de utilizar la marca del Comercio Justo en los productos. Las redes de productores son las asociaciones regionales de los grupos productores que han sido certificados – hay tres: la red africana, la Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de pequeños productores del Comercio Justo, y la red de productores asiáticos. |
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FLO-CERT
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FLO-CERT GmbH es independiente de FLO y es una compañía internacional que ofrece sus servicios de certificación en más de 70 países. Haz clic aquí para una guía interactiva (historieta) al proceso de certificación... |
Criterios de cumplimiento
FLO-CERT establece los criterios de cumplimiento con su base en los criterios de FLO (ve arriba). Estos son "puntos de control verificables" a traves de los cuales, FLO-CERT determina (a la hora de inspeccion) si un grupo sera certificado o no.
Lee los criterios de cumplimiento
IMO
IMO's "Social and FairTrade Certification Programme was developed by the Swiss Bio-Foundation in collaboration with IMO (Institute for Marketecology) in response to concerns with the evident shortcomings of other existing systems. such as FLO. This program is based on existing baseline standards (ILO conventions and the FLO standards) but also includes more recently revised standards developed by ISEAL Alliance. Once a company complies with these criteria and is
There are two elements involved in this program: 1) Social Responsibility Certification
