Certification Documents

The Certification Application Form (CAF) is a mandatory document to be filled out by Certificate Holders and Certification Bodies along the Certification Process of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard 2020.

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 […]

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 […]

This policy exception has been developed to support the traceability reporting process for tea certificate holders.

An exception to the Rainforest Alliance Standard mass balance and temporary supply shortage rules have been granted to orange juice certificate holders.

This document replaces the certification rules portion of the previously published Certification and Auditing Rules.