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The assessment process for products not in shopping guides
(i) Companies must first fill in an 'ethical health check' questionnaire.
If you think your overall score is more than 65/100 you may be eligible to use the label.
If not, the questionnaires contain within them suggestions of what is needed to improve scores sufficiently to make the grade.
PDF's of the some of questionnaires may be downloaded at the bottom of this document, as well as an introduction and overview explaining more about how the process works.
If you are interested, but there isn't a questionnaire for your company or product type, do let us know.
Contact us to discuss a separate process if your company has already been assessed in another currently published report.
(ii) When you think your company is ready, please ask us to send Word versions of the questionnaires and we can move to the assessment stage.
This will involve sending in the completed questionnaire and paying our standard screenings fee of (currently) £225 plus VAT. Our researchers will check the evidence you send, and that the score is sufficiently high, and they may ask some questions. If the standard and the certification is approved by our assessment team, it will be possible to move to the licensing stage in the usual way by contacting Simon Birch on: 0796 9086136 or by dropping him an email: birch@ethicalconsumer.org
