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 2010 The best environmental choice in seafood

2. Chain of Custody surveillance audits Nicolas Viart Product Integrity Manager September 2011

4. Learning Objectives • To know how to comply with scheme requirements • To be able to easily explain to your clients what they need to do • Understand the procedure for determining surveillance frequency

5. Agenda • Scheme Requirements • What happens at a surveillance audit? • What your client needs to know • Surveillance frequency • Exercise Photo: Tony Rotondas

6. Surveillance • Scheme requirements • Section 17.8 • Table B4: Risk Analysis to determine appropriate Levels of On-going Surveillance

7. Surveillance • 17.8 Surveillance: • Scoring table • Reduced level can happen at any time between 10 and 18 months • Remote reduced for very low risk companies

8. Surveillance • Why? • Previous verification was in some cases disproportionally heavy in relation to associated risk • Accounts for seasonal operations • Flexibility to arrange/organise audits • All companies are scored using the same criteria

9. Surveillance During a surveillance audit, the CAB: • Checks continued conformity to the CoC Standard, and • Checks use of MSC ecolabel (more on this later today) • Records the list of products actually handled since the last audit to update the MSC database.

10. Surveillance Planned but also irregularly timed • 17.8.3 : CB shall have a documented system in place for irregularly timed short-notice audits

11. What the client needs to know • Audit Frequency ranges from every 18 months to every 6 months • If Major nonconformity is raised, the level of frequency is enhanced • Show or explain the risk table Photo: Blue Lotus

12. Surveillance Type & Frequency • 1. Enhanced: Onsite once each 6 months • 2. Standard: Onsite once each 12 months • 3. Reduced: Onsite between 10-18 months from the date of certification • 4. Remote reduced: Desk audit between 10-18 months from the date of certification

13. Surveillance A desktop audit shall involve the same activities as onsite audits. (17.8.2)

14. Surveillance 17.8 CR : Table B4: Risk factors are not exhaustive Table B5: Overlapping categories for some scores

15. Table B4: Factors and scoring to determine surveillance frequency

16. Table B5

18. Summary • Table B4 : Risk factors are not exhaustive • Table B5: Overlapping categories for some scores • Surveillance audits take place between 6 and 18 months • A desktop audit involves the same activities as onsite audits. • Planned but also irregularly timed

19. Thank you Please send comments, queries, suggestions to: nicolas.viart@msc@org