FLO-CERT TRADE CERTIFICATION FEES

Effective from 12th September 2008.

1 Application Fees
Operators that apply to FLO-CERT pay the application fees listed below.
Please note that application fees are non refundable.
If an already certified operator wants to certify more products or to export for more producers, the
operator must apply for these additions.

Application Base Fee Fee in EURO

Initial application fee 500
Each Additional Entity (see note 1) 200
Each producer added by an exporter 200
Each additional product category (see note 2) except for 300
operators which do not import the product from the global
south

Additional charges for Cotton Social Compliance

(Additional fees apply to assess social compliance of cotton operators. For the full details please consult the TC
Cotton Policy.)
Document Check 50
Check Pilot Project Participation 100
Check Social Compliance Audit Report 200
Benchmarking Social Compliance Code 450
FLO-CERT Social Audit / per day 800

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2 ANNUAL TRADE CERTIFICATION FEES
Annual trade certification fees are invoiced on 1st January each year. Operators will be assessed
according to the Operator Category Criteria (see table below).

Fee in Euro per Category

Annual Trade Certification Fees
A B C D
Operators (Base Fee) (see note 3) 2,600 2,600 2,200 1,800
Small Operators (see note 4 and 5) 1,200 1,200 800 400
Importers of camellia sinensis tea, citrus juices, sugar from 3,100 3,100 2,700 2,300
Paraguay, Malawi, Zambia or Mauritius that use systemic
retro-certification (see note 6)
Exporters, processors of camellia sinensis tea, citrus juices, 1,700 1,700 1,400 1,100
sugar from Paraguay, Malawi, Zambia, Mauritius (see note 6)

Audit Fees
Audit Fee for Licensees of Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics and 1,200 1,200 800 400
Germany

Additional Fees (added to Trade Certification Base Fee or Audit Fee)

Each large volume product (see note 4) 1,000 1,000 800 600
Each additional product category (see note 2) 300 300 200 100
Each Additional Entity (see note 1) 300 300 200 100
Supplement for exceptional travel expenses (see note 7)

3 DEFINITION OF OPERATOR CATEGORY A, B, C, D

Four categories (A, B, C, D) are defined and applicable to operators according to fulfilled criteria.
They are detailed in the table below.

OPERATOR CATEGORY CRITERIA CATEGORY

New operators A
Operators which:

pay the minimum price and/or FT premium or

have more than 2 subcontractors or

manufacture composite products or fresh products (fruits,
flowers, etc.) or
B

benefit from exceptions (including systemic retroactive
product certification) or

were suspended or

had, as a result of the last Audit, a follow-up visit or major
non-compliances
Operators which:

had a desk review follow-up as a result of the last Audit or
C

had more than seven minor non compliant criteria as a result
of the last Audit
 Operators which:

had more than seven minor non compliant criteria as a result
of the last Audit and which have a products management
D
system (organic or Fairtrade Internal Control System (ICS) or

had less than seven minor non compliant criteria as a result of
the last Audit

4 DEFINITION OF VOLUME CATEGORY LARGE, SMALL

Volumes of licensees are evaluated on the basis of annual sales. Volumes of all other operators are
evaluated on the basis of annual purchases.

Product Metric Tonnes

Or other indicated unit
Large Small
Banana > 1000 < 15
Coffee (green) > 800 < 10
Coffee (roast) > 640 <8
Coffee (instant) > 300 <4
Fresh Fruit > 800 < 10
Tea > 100 < 1.25
Sugar > 800 < 10
Honey > 400 <5
Rice > 100 < 1.25
Quinoa > 100 < 1.25
Composite Products > 100 < 1.25
Cocoa Bean > 800 < 10
Cocoa Powder > 300 < 3.75
Chocolate > 300 < 3.75
Nuts and Oil Seeds > 100 < 1.25
Dried Fruits > 100 < 1.25
Herbs Spices > 10 < 0.1
Wine kilolitres > 200 < 2.5
Flower 1000’s > 1000 < 0.15
Sports Balls 1000’s > 100 < 1.25
Cotton (seed) > 1200 < 20
Cotton (semi-finished: yarn, fabric) > 1000 < 15
Cotton item 1000’s > 200 < 1.25
Juice (concentrate) > 800 < 10
Juice (not from concentrate) kilolitres > 2000 < 25
5 INITIAL TRADE CERTIFICATION FEES
New operators pay a percentage of the annual Trade Certification Fees above based on the
quarter from which the certification contract is valid.

Start date of contract Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Percentage of Annual Trade Certification Fee or Audit Fee
to be paidi 100 75 50 25

6 OTHER TRADE CERTIFICATION FEES

If as result of Audit follow up is needed to confirm that corrective action has been taken to fix a non-
compliance, the fees shown below will be charged.

OTHER TRADE CERTIFICATION FEES Fee in Euro

Follow up Audit (this includes one day on site. Each additional day 1,200
required will be charged at 600 Euros per day)
Follow up Desk Check 600
Cancellation of Audit less than 5 working days before 600
Exception Fee (including Derogations)
400

Note 1: “Additional Entity” is any entity including, but not limited to, sub-operators, additional sites and sub-contractors, that are
involved with the fair-trade products of the Certified Operator and whose activities are controlled by the Certified Operator
through ownership or by contract.

Note 2: Product categories are defined as each separate Fairtrade Product Standard, e.g. cocoa, sugar, coffee etc. Each Composite
Product is categorised by its main ingredient and counts as one product

Note 3: Operator categories (A-D) are defined in “3. // DEFINITION OF OPERATOR CATEGORY A, B, C, D” of this document.

Note 4: Large volume and small volume are defined “4.. // DEFINITION OF VOLUME CATEGORY LARGE, SMALL” of this document.

Note 5: If you are the payer of Fairtrade price and/or Fairtrade premium e.g. Importer/Exporter you cannot be classified as a small
operator. Any organisation, additional operator entity or subcontractor whose annual revenue turnover is more than 5 million
Euros cannot be a small operator.

Note 6: Product retro-certification means that Fairtrade eligible product is bought on commercial terms and then, after it is sold as
Fairtrade certified, the producer is paid the Fairtrade Premium and price adjustment. Camellia sinensis tea, citrus juice and
sugar importers that say in writing they will not do retro-certification pay the normal basic fee.

Note 7: Travel supplement applies when there is an additional site in another country to that of the primary operator.