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4C
Common Code
for the Coffee
Community
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An idea
whose time
has come
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Our vision
That by year 2015, at least fifty
percent of the worlds production of coffee will meet the
baseline sustainability criteria
of the Common Code for the
Coffee Community (4C).
4C
What we are
Our responsibility
Our mission
To be universally recognized as
the global baseline standard
that enhances economic, social
and environmental production
to all who make a living in the
coffee sector.
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A 37-member teleconference
With just one week to go
before the deadline, much to
everybodys relief, most of
4C Association is born
Those 37 founding members
from across the world and
along the entire length of the
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4C verification is conducted at
the container level by independent
third parties. External verification
is important to both buyers and
suppliers, and focuses on the
improvement process. 4C verification checks the respective internal monitoring systems, combined with sampled field audits.
4C Support Services offer
access to tools, training and
information for producers to
support their efforts towards
attaining more sustainability.
These services build on a global
support network that is itself
based on local cooperation.
4C Rules of Participation impose
clear responsibilities on trade
and industry members who
cover the cost of verification
through the membership fees.
Additionally they contribute to
capacity building, training, workshops and educational efforts
with at least 30% of their annual
membership fees. 4Cs roasters
members commit to buy increasing amounts of 4C compliant
coffee over time, and to reporting
on these amounts.
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Producers
To ensure that Council members representing producers
are balanced in terms of geography and different production
systems, the seven producers
seats were allocated as follows:
- South America/Brazil:
Conselho Nacional do Caf
(CNC)Brazil
- Andean Countries:
Federacin Nacional de
Cafeteros (FNC)
Civil Society
Five Council members representing labour, environmental,
social and economic aspects of
civil society were also selected:
- Labour rights: International
Union of Food and
Agricultural Workers (IUF)
Setting up the
governing structure:
the Council
- Western/Central Africa: an
individual from the
Ivory Coast
- Eastern/Southern Africa:
Fairview Estate Ltd., Kenya
- Environment: Pesticide
Action Network UK
- Social interests: Oxfam
International, represented by
Oxfam/Novib, NL
- Human rights: Christliche
Initiative Romero, Germany
- Economic empowerment:
Rainforest Alliance.
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Decision making:
The Executive Board
To aid efficient and timely
decision making, the Council
created a representational
Executive Board from their
- Vice-President, representing
Civil Society: Albrecht
Schwarzkopf of Christliche
Initiative Romero CIR,
Germany
- Treasurer, representing
Trade and Industry: Roel
Vaessen of the European
Coffee Federation (ECF)
- Chairman of the Technical
Committee:Bernardo van Raij
- Chairman of the Mediation
Board: Joppe Vanhorick
(Ombudsman)
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The 4C Code of
Conduct and its
verification system are two
important pillars supporting
the baseline criteria that stimulate continuous improvement
towards sustainable coffee
production practices. They are
key in pursuing the path towards
higher efficiency and productivity
in order to secure adequate
social standards, protect natural resources in the coffee
growing regions, and enhance
organizational structures.
The 4C verification
system: the first results
The 4C verification system
was officially launched at the
beginning of the 2007/2008
coffee year, in October 2007.
By December the 4C Secretariat had registered thirty-two
4C Units in fifteen main pro-
The 4C Code of
Eliminating
unacceptable
practices
The Code of Conduct demands
the complete elimination of ten
unacceptable practices, and includes thirty baseline principles
that lead towards more social,
environmental and economic
sustainability through continuous
improvements over time.
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Independent
verification
To be completely free of any
undue influence and to ensure
the long-term credibility of
the application of the Code of
Conduct, the 4C verification
system depends on external
inspection by independent
third-party verifiers. At the
same time, the 4C Association
covers the costs for the verification from its membership
fees, so that producers pay no
extra costs for verification.
Training Verifiers
The verification system was set
up by the Secretariat through
intensive training in different
regions and in several languages.
The first training sessions were
conducted in April 2007 in
Bonn, and by autumn others had
been successfully concluded in
Brazil, Vietnam, Guatemala and
Colombia. By the end of 2007,
a total of 23 different auditing
companies had been qualified to
participate in the verification
process in all of the main coffee
Benchmarking
Cooperation between different
initiatives working in the coffee sector is crucial to meeting
4Cs objectives. Therefore, the
ISEAL Alliance and an expert
working group are working
with 4C to define a technical
benchmarking procedure with
a more demanding set of
standards against the 4C code
of conduct.
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Because coffee is an
evergreen broad-leafed
shrub it contributes
positively to carbon
sequestration. It also
stabilises soils and
encourages the formation of stable social
communities. In fact
under almost all conditions of production
coffee makes a positive
contribution to the
environment.
ICO
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Challenge
To put it mildly, the remaining
90 percent is still a something of
a challenge. But 4C plans to
Continuous
improvement
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Domestic consumption
in exporting countries
is estimated at 31.3
million bags and consumption in importing
countries at 89.1
million bags
ICO Annual Review 2006/07
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London
Switzerland
Catalyst
However, given the limited resources of 4C this can only be
feasible if we act as a catalyst
and multiplier. For this reason,
Support Services are particularly
crucial if the Association is to
succeed in its sustainable coffee
goals -- so in its first year 4C
concentrated on building solid
foundations for the Support
Services and establishing partnerships with well-known coffee,
extension and research institutions.
trained at these sessions. Additionally, local 4C partners also conducted training programmes in
Brazil, Colombia and Vietnam,
reaching a further hundred trainers and extensionists.
Costa Rica
Mexico
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Colombia
Ecuador
Co
Peru
Dissemination activities:
In 2007 communication activities were aimed at
key players on five continents, in Ivory Coast,
Ethiopia, USA, London, Belgium, Ecuador,
Mexico, Japan, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras,
France, Germany, Uganda, and Colombia
Brazil
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Conduct and its verification process and, importantly, the effectiveness of its Support Services.
In 2007 communication activities
were aimed at key players on
five continents, in Ivory Coast,
Ethiopia, USA, United Kingdom,
Belgium, Ecuador, Mexico,
Japan, Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Costa Rica, France,
Spain, The Netherlands,
Germany, Uganda, Vietnam,
Indonesia and Colombia.
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Germany
Belgium
and
France
Japan
Ethiopia
Vietnam
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Papua New
Guinea
Cote DIvoire
Indonesia
e it matters most
Constructive dialogue
These dissemination activities
also offered the opportunity of
opening constructive dialogues
between interested parties, and
added value to the further development of 4C.
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Decentralization: p
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Two-phase approach
This objective is being achieved
using a two-phase approach. The
first phase is to locate staff from
the 4C Secretariat in main coffee
Local contacts
However, as a first step, 4C is
focused on identifying local
contact persons to act as entry
points for the mutual exchange
of information and coordination
of activities identified by 4C
during the first phase, with the
intent of evolving this network
into the 4C Forum.
Once established, a local contact
person will cooperate closely with
a coffee organization or institution
in their producing country.
Sharing experiences
and lessons
A priority will be to adapt all 4C
tools so as to bring the 4C Code
down to a local context. Activities
may include the organizations
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Income 2007
Membership fees
gtz in-kind contributions:
27.5%
Interest: 0.2%
Verifier Trainings: 1.7%
Public Funding: 1.1%
Kick-Off
Contributions: 19.0%
Support contributions:
14.3%
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EUR
% of total
644,125
35.8
573,260
70,866
283,975
15.8
267,512
3,200
13,263
335,000
18.6
52,447
2.9
20,000
28,925
3,522
on)
1,315,547
73.1
485,054
26.9
1,800,601
100.0
Expenditures 2007
EUR
Administration Non-Recurring
Software
Hardware
Office Equipment
Legal Advice/Documents
Administration Recurring
Personnel
Running Office Expenses
Data Management & Hosting
Bank Charges
Accountancy
Tax Consulting
Other Expenses
Operational Component
Verification
Dissemination
Communication/Reporting/Printing
Travel
Cooperation with Experts/Consultancies
Translation
Meetings/Governance
Support Component
Contribution through 4C - budget
Value of contribution through gtz1
Subtotal (4C Budget)
110,995
41,849
27,421
20,780
20,944
248,309
188,958
15,607
7,248
3,641
9,610
10,320
12,925
396,881
162,870
17,421
59,046
31,194
22,051
16,076
88,223
549,493
64,439
485,054
820,625
Total expenditures
1,305,679
% of total
8.5
19.0
30.4
42.1
100.0
1) Contributed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic
Affairs (SECO) This statement is preliminary as of Feb 2008
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10 Eakmat Limited
Company for Consulting
Investment in
Agriculture and Forestry
Development (Eakmat
CO., Ltd)
Vietnam
11Cooperativa dos
Cafeicultores do
Cerrado Ltda.
Brazil
12 Fairview Estate Limited
Kenya
13 Federacin de
Cooperativas Agrcolas
de Productores de Caf
de Guatemala
(Fedecocagua)
Guatemala
14 Federacin Nacional de
Cafeteros de Colombia
(FNC)
Colombia
15 Kagera Cooperative
Union Ltd.
Tanzania
16 La Esperanza Coffee Farm
Colombia
17 Mullege PLC
Ethiopia
18 Sociedad Cooperativa de
Cafetaleros de Ciudad
Barrios de R.L. (CAFE
CIBA)
El Salvador
19 SOPROCPCAM
Cameroon
20 Union Rgionale Victoire
(UIREVI)
Ivory Coast
21 Zambia Coffee Growers'
Association Zambia
Trade and Industry
22 Alois Dallmayr Kaffee
OHG (including Azul
Kaffee GmbH&Co.KG,
Heimbs Kaffee
GmbH&Co.KG)
Germany
23 Armajaro Trading
Limited
United Kingdom
24 Bernhard Rothfos
GmbH for and on behalf
of Neumann Kaffee
Gruppe
Germany
25 Complete Coffee
Limited
United Kingdom
26 Coex Coffee International
USA
27 Coop
Switzerland
28 Ecom Agroindustrial
Corp Ltd
Switzerland
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Individual Members
Associate Members
68 Asociacin Nacional de
Caf (Anacafe)
Guatemala
69 Associao Brasileira da
Industria de Caf
Brazil
70 Asociacin Mexicana de
la Cadena Productiva del
Caf A.C. (AMECAF)
Mexico
71 British Coffee
Association
United Kingdom
72 Caf Africa
Switzerland
73 Coalicin de Fuerzas
Productivas for and on
behalf of Constitucin y
Republica, Nuevo
Milenio A.C.
Mexico
74 European Coffee
Federation
The Netherlands
75 Federal German
Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and
Development (BMZ)
Germany
76 Flanders International
Cooperation Agency
(FICA)
Belgium
77 German Coffee
Association
Germany
60 Diego Pizano-Salazar
Colombia
61 Morten Scholer
Switzerland
62 Bernardo van Raij
Brazil
63 Sri Saroso
Indonesia
64 Albrecht Schwarzkopf
Germany
65 J.A.J.R. Vaessen
The Netherlands
66 Joppe Vanhorick
The Netherlands
67 Annemieke Wijn
Germany
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Directory
(Executive Board, 4C Secretariat)
Executive Board
4C Secretariat
Andrea Brstle
Office Manager
J.A.J.R.Vaessen
European Coffee Federation
(ECF)
The Netherlands
Treasurer
Albrecht Schwarzkopf
Christliche Initiative Romero
CIR
Germany
Vice-president
Joppe Vanhorick
The Netherlands
Mediation Board
Bernardo van Raij
Brazil
Technical Committee
Annette Pensel
Manager Decentralization
Carsten Schmitz-Hoffmann
Director Support Services
Cao Thanh Van
Verification Manager
Catherine Vogel
Communications Manager
(Sept. 2007)
Lars Kahnert
Administration Manager
Martin Meyer
Interim Director Operations
(from March 2008)
Marion Baak
Office Manager
Melanie Rutten,
Director Operations
Petra Heid
Support Manager (end 2007)
Zandra Martnez
Communications Manager
Photos credits:
Juan Carlos Reyes
pages 9 & 22: NESTLE
pages 3 & 11: Annette Pensel
page 10: Cooxup
page 16: Christian Nusch
Printed in France by naturaprint, on Aconda
Verd Silk using vegetable oil-based inks and
water-soluble varnishes.
Aconda Verd Silk is made from recycled postconsumer waste paper and wood fibre from
well-managed forests certified in accordance
with the rules of the Forest Stewardship
Council AC.
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