6. International certification
When it was set up in 2004, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was a "business to business" initiative, with a dozen or so members from the private sector (including Unilever) and NGOs (including WWF). RSPO has become a multi-stakeholder international initiative dedicated to the certification and promotion of sustainable palm oil.
In November 2005, the 8 principles and 39 criteria for certification were approved, leading to the certification of the first plantations in 2008. The first batches of CSPO (Certified Sustainable Palm Oil) were marketed at the end of 2008.
Today, the round table brings together over 4,600 members in 7 categories: producers, processors and traders, manufacturers, banks and investors, retailers, environmental NGOs and social NGOs.
Working groups help to keep RSPO alive, to pursue,...
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Bibliography
Websites
Dossier Oil palm and sustainable development: Oilseeds, Fats, Lipids https://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/pdf/2010/06/ocl2010176p360.pdf
Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project http://www.safeproject.net/
...Events
RSPO Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue-Europe. June 23, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.
RSPO RT17 – XVII Round Table, Indonesia, November 8-11, 2020.
PIPOC 2021 – MPOB International Palm Oil Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2021.
FEDEPALMA – XIX a Conferencia International sobre Palma de Aceite, Cartagena,...
Standards and norms
- Système de management de la qualité. - ISO 9000 -
- Système de management environnemental. - ISO 14000 -
- Responsabilité sociale. - ISO 26000 -
- IFC-World Bank : http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758161490942631734/pdf/113766-WP-FRENCH- Performance-Standards-2012-Full-Document- - IFC Standards -
Regulations
EU Regulation no. 1169/2011 of 25/10/11 on the provision of food information to consumers – OJ EU L304, 22/11/11, p. 18-63.
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 of March 13, 2019 supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards, on the one hand, the determination of feedstocks with a high risk of inducing indirect land-use change whose area of...
Directory
AIPH (Association Interprofessionnelle du Palmier à Huile de Côte d'Ivoire) http://www.aiph.ci/
Forest Preservation Alliance https://alliance-preservation-forets.org/
Amsterdam Declaration "Towards Eliminating Deforestation from...
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