{"id":1000438,"date":"2015-12-16T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438&#038;source_id=438&#038;target_id=1000438"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:18:11","slug":"asc-announces-terms-of-reference-for-group-certification-and-new-pilots","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/news\/asc-announces-terms-of-reference-for-group-certification-and-new-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"ASC announces terms of reference for group certification and new pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"block wysiwyg\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Today, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) published two Terms of Reference (ToR) for the group certification project and associated pilot audits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under group certification, farmers will come together to implement the ASC standards to achieve certification as one entity, with a central office to take care of the administration of the group as a whole. Taking a collective approach will bring efficiencies for all parties. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A technical working group comprised of industry, service providers and NGO stakeholders will make group certification methodology available for public comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the consultation period, five pilot audits will be launched for shrimp, tilapia, trout, bivalves and pangasius as these species engage small-scale producers in different countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All documents are available on the <\/span><b>ASC website<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To take part in the pilots<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ASC seeks applications for the audit pilots on a first come, first served basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farmer groups and CABs have until mid-February 2016 to send an application to the ASC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An application for both farmer groups and CAB&#8217;s is available to <\/span><b>download<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in word format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Terms of reference for Group Certification<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ToR for the group certification project is available <\/span><b>here.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ToR for pilots is available <\/span><b>here.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Get involved<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about the scheme and to submit your application before February 15, 2016, contact the ASC team by email on: pilots@asc-aqua.org.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000438","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1000438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}