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3.2 What are the Certification Cycles? 3.2.1 Three-year certification cycle FLO-CERT has three-year certification cycles. During a certification cycle, surveillance activities are performed in order to make sure that all relevant requirements of the Fairtrade Standards are complied with. Before the end of a certification cycle and the start of a new cycle, a physical audit must take place. After the Initial Certification, the operator starts the first 3-year Certification Cycle. In case of Small Licensees the Certification Cycle constitutes of 6 years. Usually one physical surveillance audit is carried out to evaluate continued compliance. Depending on the risk categorisation of the customer, FLO-CERT may decide to conduct a second surveillance audit. 1 2 Initial Phase Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Third cycle CERTIFICATE 1 CERTIFICATE 2 Application Evaluation Initial / Renewal Audit Surveillance Audit 1 1 st Certification Cycle: Relevant requirements All year 0 compliance criteria 2 2 nd Certification Cycle: Relevant requirements All year 0 and 3 compliance criteria 3 3 rd Certification Cycle: Relevant requirements All year 0, 3 and 6 compliance criteria Version 54 / 12.09.2012 Quality Manual 18
3.2.2 Six year certification cycle for small Licensees 1 2 Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 PERMISSION TO TRADE 1 PERMISSION TO TRADE 2 CERTIFICATE 1 Initial/Renewal Audit Surveillance (offsite desktop review) 1 1 st Certification Cycle: Relevant requirements All year 0 2 2 nd Certification Cycle: Relevant requirements All year 0, 3 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 For more information on the Small Licensee concept please refer to the CERT Certification SOP. 3.2.3 Requirements for Small Producer Organizations and Contract Production Projects Fairtrade is also about development and the standards reflect this. As described in paragraph 1.2.2 about compliance criteria, not all standards are immediately applicable to producers because development cannot happen overnight. Therefore, in addition to having different timelines for different compliance criteria, in 2011 the concept of Core and Development Criteria was introduced to the Fairtrade Standards for Small Producer Organizations (SPO) and Contract Production (CP). Core criteria are handled by a “black/white approach” the operator can either be compliant or non-compliant with a core criterion. For the development criteria the evaluation approach is different: Five performance ranks are developed by FLO-CERT for each of the development criteria and the compliance of the operator is measured based on the average score which is achieved throughout all the development criteria. Version 54 / 12.09.2012 Quality Manual 19
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