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Some officials in banana exporting countries and development agencies consider that certification3 to specific voluntary standards may be one of the instruments available to mitigate these threats. They reckon that certain standards have the potential to add value, enhance market access and reduce the adverse environmental and social impacts of...
Report
2008
The International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF) developed a guidance document, “Tool for Equivalence of Organic Standards and Technical Regulations” (EquiTool). This guideline aims to facilitate and harmonize assessments of equivalence of organic production and processing standards and technical regulations. The scope of this guideline is...
Guidelines
2008
The organic market is confronted with hundreds of private sector standards and governmental regulations, two international standards for organic agriculture (Codex Alimentarius and IFOAM) and a host of conformity assessment and accreditation systems. Mutual recognition and equivalency among these systems is extremely limited. Discussions in a number of forums including...
Guidelines
2004
This volume represents a further step in the development of proposals on harmonization of the regulation of production and trade in products from organic agriculture. It was commissioned by the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF), which was established by IFOAM, FAO and UNCTAD in...
Guidelines
2004
The organic market is confronted with hundreds of private sector standards and governmental regulations, two international standards for organic agriculture (Codex Alimentarius and IFOAM) and a host of conformity assessment and accreditation systems. Mutual recognition and equivalency among these systems is extremely limited. Discussions in a number of forums including...
Guidelines
2007
This publication presents papers of the sixth meeting of the ITF, held in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2006. Also included here is the first draft of the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB), which is a tool for equivalence of organic conformity assessment systems. In addition, the volume contains...
Guidelines
2008
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