It has five elements: a membership admission procedure, a self-assessment procedure, a monitoring audit, a peer review and the Fair Trade Accountability Watch (FTAW), a participatory monitoring mechanism allowing anyone to denounce non-compliance with the criteria.
Members who pass the various stages of the guarantee system are granted the status of a Guaranteed Fair Trade Organisation. They can then use the WFTO label on their products, a label that certifies compliance with the fair trade criteria established by the WFTO.
At the 2017 General Assembly in Delhi, WFTO decided to open its standards to producers from the North, who must comply with WFTO's basic requirements and the 10 principles of fair trade.
In addition, to become members of WFTO, Northern organisations must be or work with a group (i.e. an association or cooperative) of economically marginalised small producers, artisans or farmers.
Small producers (artisans or farmers) are defined as organisations operating on a small scale and cannot afford to supply large volumes as industrialised producers.
If they are farmers, they must be certified as organic or be converting to, or be involved in a participatory guarantee system (PGS).
Read more: WFTO Europe, Northern Producers Within WFTO, Factsheet, April 2018 : https://wfto-europe.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Factsheet_NorthernProducersWithinWFTO_Apr20182.pdfRead more about ‘Local fair trade in Belgium and Europe’ in the study of the Trade for Development Centre (Enabel): https://www.tdc-enabel.be/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Local-Fair-Trade-in-Belgium-and-Europe.pdf
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