Certification
Fairtrade (Fairtrade International / FLOCERT)
Fairtrade is the international fair-trade system whose umbrella body began setting a global standard in 1997, with certification split off into the independent subsidiary FLOCERT in 2003 in Bonn. For coffee it guarantees cooperatives a price floor and a separate premium for community projects, and it is the main fair-trade label in Europe. In the United States it sits alongside Fair Trade USA, which runs its own separate standards and seal.
- Register
- OpenAnyone can check who holds it
- Founded
- 1997
- Run by
- Fairtrade International (standards); FLOCERT GmbH (certification)
- Covers
- Farms, handlers and roasters
What it requires
In this atlas's own wordsCoffee producers must be organised in democratic small-scale producer organisations (or, temporarily, under contract production while they organise). Buyers must pay at least the Fairtrade Minimum Price and an additional Fairtrade Premium that the organisation invests collectively. Standards also cover environmental practice, forced and child labour, and traceability through the supply chain. Compliance is checked by audits from FLOCERT, an independent ISO 17065-accredited body, including field inspections, document and finance reviews and confidential worker interviews.
Countries active
No country list recorded.
Checking a claim
The register
Open to the public
FLOCERT's customer search is public and filterable by status, product, country and function, but the full customer list sits on the login-only Intact platform. No open licence was found; use the search to verify individual operators and link out rather than mirroring.
Logo use
The FAIRTRADE Mark is licensed to certified traders and brands; Fairtrade International operates a marks-misuse reporting channel. Detailed labelling rules were not captured in this collection.