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ISEAL Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice

How a scheme develops and revises its standards - consultation, decision making and revision cycles. A standard for sustainability schemes rather than for a product or a factory. What it governs is how a certification scheme sets its requirements, runs its assurance and measures its effects.

Number

ISEAL Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice

Edition

ISEAL Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice Version 6.0

Status

superseded

What this standard is for

Why it matters

The oldest and most widely cited of the three, and the one a reader is most likely to meet in a scheme's own account of how its criteria were arrived at.

What to watch for

Integrated into the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems and no longer maintained separately. Still cited by name in scheme documents written before the merge, which is the reason this record exists.

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