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The
IFOAM Basic Standards (IBS) are under continuous development. This
often results in
the development of standards on new areas that are not officially IFOAM
Basic Standards. These Draft Standards are intended to be
elevated to full standards. They are also intended to guide standard
setting
organizations in developing their own regionally adapted standards.
However,
even though encouraged to use them for standard setting purposes IFOAM
Accredited Certification (ACB's) bodies are not obliged to follow Draft
Standards. The revision of the Draft Standards follows the procedures
applied for the revision of the IFOAM Basic Standards.
In the past the Draft Standards were published along with the
official IFOAM Basic Standards (IBS) in the IFOAM Book of Norms. Some
Draft Standards
lingered in the IBS for many years before their elevation to full
standards was approved or denied by the membership. As a consequence,
there have been frequent erroneous references to the Draft Standards as
part of the official IBS, which created a host of other problems. Also,
sometimes portions of the Draft Standards are integrated into other
sections of the IBS, making it very difficult to manage a new area as a
Draft Standard, especially when the development of Draft Standards and
their adoption as official standards takes more than
one IBS revision cycle.
IFOAM considered this in the course of the revision of the 2002 IFOAM
Basic
Standards and decided to change the formatting and placement of Draft Standards. They will no longer be published together with
the IBS in the Book of Norms but on this subsection on
the IFOAM website. The Book of Norms will list
the Draft Standards that are under development at the time of
publication, and give instructions for obtaining them.
List of Draft Standards:
D1: Plant Breeding Draft Standards
D2: Biodiversity Draft Standards
D3: Resource Use Draft Standards
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