The best environmental choice in seafood

1. Disclaimer If any interpretive issues arise in relation to the issues covered in these presentations, the text of the English MSC Scheme Documents will prevail in all instances. The MSC is not responsible for any issues arising to any parties as a result of consulting these presentations. If you are unsure of any details on any of the subjects covered, please consult the relevant MSC scheme documents or contact the MSC at standards@msc.org. MSC Executive September 2011 The best environmental choice in seafood

2. Product not on site &Under MSC-assessment fishSeptember 2011

3. Learning Objectives • To know how to conduct an audit when the product is not on-site • To understand the concept of under-MSC assessment fish

4. Product not on-site

5. Product not-on-site • What would you do in this situation? • How could rigorous checks be carried out?

6. On-site evaluation – product not on-site • Product not on-site: 17.4.1.1 • Collect evidence of the system in operation for similar products • Same non-certified species • Similar looking species • Assess if the system is robust to comply with CoC standard when certified fish is handled • Suppliers not known BD1.2.3 • client must inform CAB within 10 days of their 1st delivery • Remember to ask your client about their WHOLE potential scope until the next audit

7. Under-MSC assessment- Fish

8. Two important concepts • Eligibility date • Under-MSC-assessment fish

9. Eligibility dates: concept • Seafood caught on or after the eligibility date but before the date of certification of the fishery may be eligible to bear the MSC ecolabel • => Once fishery is certified, supply chain operators are allowed to use the ecolabel on products caught before the fishery is certified

10. Which catch is eligible to eventually use the ecolabel? Target Eligibility Date Assessment begins Certification Under-MSC-assessment seafood time

11. Target and Actual Eligibility Dates • Target Eligibility Date • Determined at beginning of fishery assessment • Kept under review • Once fishery certified it becomes the… • Actual Eligibility Date • Determined in the Public Certification Report • Can be different from the Target Eligibility Date

12. Target ED (TED) and Actual ED (AED) Target Eligibility Date Assessment begins Certification Actual Eligibility Date Certification Seafood eligible to use MSC-ecolabel Seafood not eligible The client must understand the risk that the AED might be different from the TED

13. Chain of Custody implications

14. Under-MSC-assessment fish • Definition: • Under-MSC-assessment fish: fish harvested in a fishery under assessment on or after the target eligibility date

15. Chain of Custody Requirements • CoCCM v7 introduced notion of • Under-MSC-assessment fish • Present in sections • AA – definition • 17.2.2 • 17.2.3 • 17.4.1.2 • 17.4.4 • 17.4.5.1 • 17.7.1 • BD3

16. Chain of Custody implications • Only certain defined companies can list under-MSC-assessment fish in scope • Fish can move along the supply chain until a certain point Photo: Takeaway

17. Who can list UMA seafood? Wholesaler 1st point of preservation Before or at or 1 step after

18. Who can list UMA seafood? • Companies that are before, ator1 step after the 1st point of preservation • Preservation = process that allows long term conservation of seafood • 1st point of preservation can be a vessel

19. Auditing Under-MSC-Assessment Seafood • CAB verifies • Eligibility of operator • Traceability and segregation system (supplier name & CoC code, date of capture …) • Fish caught on or after eligibility date • UMA fish is labelled with supplier name and date of capture • UMA fish is referred to on invoices • Products not labelled as UMA fish

20. Auditing Under-MSC-Assessment Fish Target Eligibility Date Certification Assessment Actual Eligibility Date Fish eligible to use the MSC- ecolabel Fish not eligible

21. When fishery becomes certified • Actual eligibility date is announced • UMA fish caught on or after actual eligibility date is automatically reclassified as MSC-certified fish • All companies in the supply chain can apply ecolabel to products caught on or after actual eligibility date • Newly certified fish appear on MSC website

22. Certificate • Company complies with all CoC requirements. • Certificate is issued with an Under-MSC-assessment schedule • CoC certificate can be withdrawn if a critical nonconformity is found • Company and scope recorded on MSC database • Company appears on MSC website

23. Questions & Answers Questions?

24. Exercise!

25. Thank you Please send comments, queries, suggestions to: amy.jackson@msc.org