Compliance With The RSPO P&C
Compliance with the RSPO P&C and all requirements as outlined in associated documents is required in order for certification to be awarded.
Responsibility for ensuring compliance with the Principles, Criteria and Indicators lies with the person(s) or entities that is/are the certificate holder referred to as ‘RSPO Member’.
Download Associated DocumentsRSPO Member
RSPO Member is responsible for decisions, policies and management activities related to the Unit of Certification (UoC).
Accordingly, the UoC required to take corrective actions in the event of not being in compliance with the Principles, Criteria and/or Indicators.
Understanding Compliance
Compliance must be demonstrated with the normative part of the P&C, namely the Principles, Criteria and Indicators.
Non-conformities (NCs) are raised at Indicator-level by auditors. The informative part is there to help with implementation of Indicators, but is not normative, nor can non-conformities be raised against this section.
NCs are graded into two categories :
Minor NCs
Any NC raised against Critical (C) indicators shall be graded as Major NC resulted in major Corrective Action Requests (CARs).
Major NCs
Non-compliance against indicators without marking with (C) shall be graded as Minor NC resulted in minor Corrective Action Requests (CARs).