Trustea Code Verification Certification
The Trustea Code Verification Certification is designed to evaluate the performance of tea producers, enabling them to achieve compliance with national and international sustainability standards.
What is TRUSTEA Certification?
Trustea is an Indian sustainability code and verification system for the tea sector.
In the first year, the entity going for verification needs to undertake external verification audits by auditors approved by the Code Secretariat, as per the verification protocol. The audits will then be conducted every alternate year. In the years when there are no external audits, the verified unit must conduct internal audits and send the audit report to the concerned Certification Body that carried out the verification in the first year & also to the Trustea Code Secretariat.
The code is designed towards a progressive achievement of complete compliance by the third year. The “Mandatory” and “Other Criteria” in the Code have been divided into four segments covering 11 chapters. The applicable control points under each chapter are required to be adhered to, within a three-year period. In each segment, the verified unit will need to meet 100 percent of Mandatory control points and 50 percent other Criteria in the first year, 65% in the second year and 80% in the third year. If a control point is not applicable, it will be adjusted accordingly for the percentage of control points required for verification.
However, a non-applicable control point will not get any additional percentage point. The total compliance percentage points (Mandatory and Other Criteria) is -Year 1: 82%, Year 2: 88% and Year 3: 93%. Further, there will be 0.5 marks for minor non-compliances if the auditors can assure that the unit is progressing towards full compliance.
Benefits of TRUSTEA Certification
The Trustea Code is designed to:
- Improve working conditions and ensuring health and safety of tea workers
- Prevention of water pollution, soil erosion and contamination,
- Ensuring safety of the tea manufactured
- Addresses gender issues and adverse effects of climate change
How to get TRUSTEA Certified?
Cotecna provides a Verification Certificate against the Trustea Code. Clients and customers willing to undergo certification needs to complete the application and contract agreement process following which initial or re-certification audits will be carried out. Once the certificate is issued (with a 3 year validity), further surveillance audits will have to be carried out at pre-defined frequencies to maintain the validity of the certificate.
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