Ready for Fairtrade?

One of FLOCERT’s many services is the translation of the Fairtrade Standards into sets of measurable, concrete compliance criteria for all Fairtrade customers. Depending on your role in the Fairtrade system and the products you trade as selected, it is your unique selection of compliance criteria that will be checked within each and every audit by one of our highly qualified and independent FLOCERT auditors. Fairtrade is not about policing but about development.

Yes, there are “major” criteria, related to health and safety, contract management and child labor, and defiance of these may prevent your certification. There are also “core” requirements that represent the fundamental Fairtrade values and principles.

Overall however, our compliance criteria encourage you to continuously improve and invest in the development of your business and its workers. They encourage sustainable, social, economic and environmental development of producers and their organizations.