Organic Equivalence Tools
International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) and Guide for Assessing Equivalence of Organic Standards and Technical Regulations (EquiTool)
This document sets out international requirements for organic certification bodies (IROCB). These requirements are intended to represent a consensus on good practices in organic conformity assessment among private and public institutions. IROCB aims to provide a baseline for assessing the equivalence of services performed by various certification bodies outside a specific organic system. The IROCB would thus serve as a tool for enabling recognition of certification bodies’ services in international trade by other certification bodies and systems, so that governments or accreditation/approval bodies could approve each other’s requirements as equivalent in order to allow products certified to enter the system.
年份: 2012
内容语言: English
Author: Developed by the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF) and The Global Organic Market Access (GOMA) Project
类别: 准则
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Bonn United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva