2020 Rules for Certification Bodies
The Rainforest Alliance manages, and is responsible for, a global Assurance System for Certification Bodies.
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Assurance System
An archive of information about our assurance system on the Rainforest Alliance website.
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Fee Catalogue for Certification Bodies
The Rainforest Fee Catalogue describes the fees applicable to Certification Bodies according to Section 1.6, Assurances Costs of the Rules for Certification Bodies.
Auditing Rules
SA-R-GA-5 The Auditing Rules outline the requirements during the audit process and how the CBs and their auditors shall carry out the assessment of the standard. This document replaces Chapter 2 of the previous Certification and Auditing Rules.
2020 Certification Rules
This document replaces the certification rules portion of the previously published Certification and Auditing Rules.
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Annex Chapter 2: Traceability (Previous Annex S06)
SA-S-SD-20 This annex includes additional binding content related to the implementation of the Requirements in Chapter 2 of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Traceability. This document includes: Traceability (Previous Annex S06) (Related to requirements 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) The new version (v1.2) was published in order to add that mass balance is now permitted for cashews […]
Annex Chapter 3: Income and Shared Responsibility (Previous Annex S14)
SA-S-SD-21 This annex includes additional binding content related to the implementation of the Requirements in Chapter 3 of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Shared Responsibility. This document includes: Shared Responsibility (Previous Annex S14) (Related to requirements 3.2 and 3.3) This updated version of Annex Chapter 3 was published in order to clarify that for bananas and […]
Annex Chapter 4: Farming (previous Annex S07)
SA-S-SD-22 This annex includes additional binding content related to the implementation of the Requirements in Chapter 4 of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Farming. This document includes: Pesticides Management (Previous Annex S07) (Related to requirements 4.5.7, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.7 and 5.6.1) When the Standards v1.3 was published on February 6th, 2023, the content of this document […]
Find An Authorized Certification Body
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Template for recording pesticide usage
Certificate holders that use active ingredients listed in this policy need to submit their usage data to the Rainforest Alliance annually. Information is packaged from Jan 1st to Dec 31st in the template, the first two months of the following year. Annual Pesticides Report / Reporte Anual de Uso de Plaguicidas
Rainforest Alliance Certified Crops
The crop list presents all the possible certified products in Rainforest Alliance. This document was previously part of Annex S13 (GMR), but now it was separated for ease of use. In case of any questions, please reach out to [email protected].