FLO-Cert - Reflexions

FLO-Cert

An international and independent ‘fair trade label’ certification and monitoring organisation, based in Bonn, in Germany. This organisation responds to an obvious need: consumers wish to be able to trust the fair trade label, all the more so in that they cannot themselves monitor if the product does indeed meet the demands of fair trade (FT), notably in terms of the prices paid to producers, sustainable production and fair trade ‘development premiums’ assigned to producers to carry out structural investment (schools, health centres, buying land, etc.). To do so, FLO-Cert had a network of 120 independent inspectors who visit, in principle each year, all the FT organisations (producers and traders) in the world, and submit a detailed report of their visits to it.