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Home » Certification » Annex Chapter 5: Social (Previous Annexes S04, S09, S10 and S11)

Annex

Annex Chapter 5: Social (Previous Annexes S04, S09, S10 and S11)

6 February 2023

SA-S-SD-23

This annex includes additional binding content related to the implementation of the Requirements in Chapter 5 of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Social.

This document includes:

  • Remediation Protocol (Previous Annex S04)
    (Related to requirements 1.5.1, 1.6.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4 and 5.8.2)
  • Methodology for Measuring Remuneration and Gaps with a Living Wage (Previous Annex S09)
    (Related to requirements 5.4)
  • Living Wage Benchmarks per Country – Methodology (Previous Annex S10)
    (Related to requirements 5.4)
  • Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Processes (Previous Annex S11)
    (Related to requirements 5.8)

In Version 1.1, published February 6th, 2023, the following changes were made:

PAGE SUBJECT WHAT CHANGED?
p. 4 Setting up a Remediation System Added reference to requirement 1.1.5 now detailing all general responsibilities of the committees and their composition, part of requirements 1.5.1 (Grievance), 1.6.1 (Gender) and 5.1.1 (Assess and Address). Specific tasks are solely kept in the respective requirements.
p. 7 Child Labor and Forced Labor Risk maps Added the URLs to the risk maps for child labor and forced labor
p. 8 Living Wage Removal of requirement 5.3.4 as it was merged with 5.3.3

Complete changes overview of the February 6th release:
What’s New in version 1.3 of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard?

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