Glossary
If you feel that the world of Fair Trade has its very own language – don’t fret! We’ll keep you in the know!
With this glossary we’ll guide you through the common technical terms used by FLOCERT, Fairtrade International and the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO).
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Promoting Body (PB)
A Promoting Body is defined in the Fairtrade Generic Standards for Contract Production, and describes a legal entity, either trade or non-trade, …
Quality Claim
A FLOCERT procedure whereby an organisation reports to the producer that products have been sold below the quality tolerances.
Reactive Compliance Criteria
Criteria related to the reactive assurance approach applied for requirements of the Trader Standard Production chapter.
They apply to all traders but …
Regular Compliance Criteria
The majority of Compliance Criteria are classified as regular. The regular Compliance Criteria are linked to minimum and/or progress requirements of …
Renewal Audit
An audit conducted at the end of a Certification Cycle before the linked certificate expires. The aim is to verify compliance with the requirements …
Reporting period
The period the flow of goods report corresponds to.
Retroactive Certification
The process of retrospectively converting a Fairtrade eligible product bought from a Fairtrade producer or exporter under ordinary conditions …
Review
An official request by the customer to review an Evaluation Decision. Reviews of Evaluation Decisions are decided by the Review Committee.
If a …
Review Committee
An internal quality control body that objectively supervises the decision-making process carried out within FLOCERT.
It is therefore responsible for …
Risk assessment
A component of risk analysis that involves identifying, evaluating and quantifying risk factors in any given process.
Scope Extension Audit
A Scope Extension Audit is carried out if:
the FLOCERT customer wants to add an additional product or entity to their certification scope before the …
SCORE Certification Model
SCORE is the certification model FLOCERT has in place for Small-scale Producer Organisations, Hired Labour and Contract Production. The main …
Second-party audit
A second-party audit is an external audit. They are usually carried out by customers or by others on their behalf. They can also be carried out by an …
Secondary product
A product that comes out of a production process in addition to the main product.
A secondary product can be directly consumed, used as an input in …
Small Customer (set-up: trader)
A Small Customer is a subcategory of a Fairtrade trader, if complying with all the following requirements:
The customer does not categorise as a …