STATEMENT BY THE RSPO ON SELF SUSPENSION OF CONTROL UNION CERTIFICATION (CUC)
RSPO has accepted the decision by Control Union Certification (CUC) to lift their self-suspension on their RSPO Principles &Criteria (P&C) certification services. This acceptance by the RSPO is made upon reviewing the report from the 3rd party accreditation body, ASI, on the measures established by CUC in addressing the specific issues observed during the accreditation […]
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Revised RSPO Supply Chain Certification documents, JUNE 2017
The RSPO Secretariat is pleased to announce that the RSPO Board of Governors (BoG) in its meeting on 14th June 2017 has endorsed the following revised documents: 1. RSPO Supply Chain Certification Standard (Revised June 2017) 2. RSPO Supply Chain Certification Systems (Revised June 2017) Both revised documents will enter into force as of 1st July 2017 […]
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KL Eco Film Festival Launches with Special RSPO Film Category
The 11th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF) was launched on Monday, 29 January, announcing the theme of “Forests, Water and Climate Change” for 2018. The country’s largest and longest-running environmental film festival was hosted at Vivatel Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, in partnership with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), River of Life (ROL), […]
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Multi-lingual online ‘How to begin’ tool proving popular
The recent addition of four new languages to RSPO's easy to navigate tool that helps traders, manufacturers and retailers enter the market for sustainable palm oil has proven very successful. The German tool, for example, welcomed close to 450 first-time visitors in just over 3 weeks. The web tools in English, French, Spanish and Dutch are popular as well. The web tools make […]
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Independent Appeals Mechanism for RSPO Complaints System
Accreditation Services International (ASI) has developed set of documents, based on the comments and inputs obtained during the public consultation conducted during 9th October to 9th December 2015. The final draft of the documents are now open for public comments for 30 days, starting from 12th May to 11th June 2016. The documents can be […]
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Reminder: RSPO Standards Revision 2024 Public Comments
Public Comments Deadline Revision 2.0 of the latest RSPO Principles and Criteria (P&C) and Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard is available for public comments. The RSPO Secretariat welcomes inputs and comments to the Revision 2.0 draft of the RSPO Principles and Criteria (P&C) and RSPO Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard on the online commenting platform. We would […]
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Public Consultation RSPO Complaints and Appeals Procedure
The Integrated Complaints System is designed as one of the key recommendations from the Complaints System Review undertaken by Natural Justice and Borneo Conservancy Initiative in December 2014 which aims to improve the governance and decision-making procedures, as well as transparency and accessibility, of the RSPO Complaints System. The first draft of the Integrated Complaints […]
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RSPO Codes of Conduct – Revised Clause 3.2
During the 19th General Assembly (GA19), which was held in person and virtually on 1 December 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Resolution GA19-2 was approved with the mandate of updating and communicating to all RSPO Members about the change in Clause 3.2 of the updated RSPO Code of Conduct for Members 2022 and RSPO Code […]
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Effective 3 October 2023, the latest version of the RSPO Rules on Market Communications and Claims 2022 requires all RSPO Members to comply with updated requirements. However, due to unforeseen developments in RSPO’s new digital system, we regret to inform you that the development of the Trademark Remote Audit platform is currently delayed. The RSPO […]
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