SGS Product & Process Certification - Marine Stewardship Council

9.3 Scoring of performance against MSC Principles
The assessment team convened a scoring meeting on 1 and 2 September 2010, the outcome
from which is shown in the scoring tables forming Appendix A to this report and in paragraph
9.2 above. The scores allocated to the assessment tree at sub-criterion, Criterion and Principle
levels are shown in Table 10. Full details of the justification for these scores are provided in the
assessment tree (Appendix A).
Further details are provided below on those areas where current practices (or stock status) are
considered to be below good industry practice. In all cases, these are not sufficiently below
best practice to warrant an automatic failure (i.e. none score less than 60).
For Principle 1, there was one performance indicator that scored below 80 and therefore
triggered a condition. This condition relates to the harvest control rule.
No performance indicators for Principle 2 fell below the 80 pass mark and, whilst there are
therefore no conditions related to Principle 2, there are some recommendations applicable.
For Principle 3, there were three performance indicators that scored below the 80 pass mark
and therefore attract a condition. These three performance indicators are closely connected
and relate to the fishery-specific management system for the sea bass fishery in the
Netherlands.
Further explanation of the attached conditions is provided in section 10.2.
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