Check your Compliance Criteria

Ready for Fairtrade? Check out how you’re doing with our Compliance Criteria checklist!

We’ve translated the Fairtrade Standards into detailed criteria, paving the way for you to pass your next Fairtrade audit with flying colours. These criteria pragmatically list what our auditors will be checking during the initial audit and thereby help to turn your uncertainty into confidence about becoming Fairtrade-certified. For the full list of Compliance Criteria applicable beyond year 0, please check the relevant files below.

 

Compliance Criteria Checklist
The list FLOCERT uses during audits to check compliance with a certain Standard.
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Compliance Criteria
A transcription of Fairtrade Standards requirements binding guidance documents and FLOCERT certification rules into verifiable control points used in …
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Fairtrade Standards
Fairtrade Standards, comprising Fairtrade Generic Standards and Fairtrade Product Standards, are requirements that producers and traders must meet in …
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Initial Audit
In order to become Fairtrade-certified, an organisation must first apply for certification. Based on the information received during the application …
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Fairtrade
Fairtrade refers to all or any part of the activities of Fairtrade International eV, FLOCERT, Fairtrade Producer Networks, National Fairtrade …
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Auditor
A person duly qualified to carry out Audits on behalf of FLOCERT. Learn more about the audits carried out by FLOCERT auditors.
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Audit
A process within the Certification to gather evidence, aimed at assessing fulfilment of certain standards by the Customer and/or a product …
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If you are interested in becoming certified in accordance with the Fairtrade Climate Standard, please check the relevant Compliance Criteria file below.

Fairtrade Climate Standard
The Fairtrade Climate Standard defines all requirements for producer organisations and traders, project facilitators and end-buyers of Fairtrade …
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