Goal
A crucial component of the global tea strategy is a standard and pricing review.
Tea standards and pricing review 2020-closed
Objectives
Standards review objectives:
- Review and analyse outstanding issues included on the monitoring log for both the Tea Small Producer Organizations (SPO) and Tea Hired Labour (HL) standards
- Consult on the inclusion of floor wages, improving working and housing conditions, among other topics
- Seek solutions from stakeholders to resolve standard related issues
- Consult on solutions with relevant stakeholder groups
- Ensure consistency in standards by aligning changes in all related product standards in particular the Fairtrade Standard for SPO, Fairtrade Standard for HL and Fairtrade Trader Standard
- Improve standard language for better clarity and simplicity
- Develop final proposals for Tea SPO and HL standards for approval by Standards Committee (SC)
Pricing review objectives:
- Collect data on costs of production using technical tools and workshops
- Explore the impact of floor wages on the overall costs of production
- Compile, validate and analyze collected cost of production data
- Review of the Premium setting model and mechanisms
- Develop the price and Premium proposal for consultation with stakeholders
- Develop the price and Premium proposal for decision to the Standards Committee
- Publish the new Fairtrade Minimum Prices and Fairtrade Premium
KEY DOCUMENTS
A crucial component of the global tea strategy is a standard and
pricing review. The most important information about the project can be
found in the Project Assignment:
EN | Project Assignment (update October 2020)
Synopsis of second round of consultation on standards
The second round of public consultation took place from 29 October 2020 until 18 December 2020.
The following synopsis document aims to present the outcome of the consultation in the most transparent way possible without disclosing confidential stakeholder information:
EN | Synopsis Second Consultation round
And you can still see the consultation document in the following link:
Public consultation on Tea pricing – Second round - CLOSED
The consultation took place from 17th July to 3rd September 2020.
A synopsis of this consultation is currently under development.
Next steps can be found in the project assignment (see link above)
Synopsis of first round of consultation on standards and pricing
The first round of public consultation took place from 11 June 2019 until 10 July 2019 (closed).
The following synopsis document aims to present the outcome of the consultation in the most transparent way possible without disclosing confidential stakeholder information:
EN | Synopsis First Consultation round
And you can still see the consultation document in the following link: