What is it?
Meta-framework issued or operated by ISEAL Alliance.
Regulatory recognitionThe credibility meta-standard: membership signals scheme governance quality
Standards & schemes · Meta-framework
ISEAL Code of Good Practice
ISEAL Alliance
Which version is current?
Profile version 2. Official information last verified 22 August 2026.
Who and what does it cover?
- Geography
- Global
- Sectors
- All sectors
- Scope
- Scheme-level (not product)
What does it require?
Membership body for credible sustainability systems; its Codes of Good Practice (standard-setting, assurance, impacts) are the reference for judging whether a scheme itself is robust.
What it does not demonstrateThe framework provides principles or alignment guidance; it does not by itself certify performance or establish legal compliance.
How is conformity assessed?
Scheme evaluation against ISEAL Codes
Grievance mechanismISEAL channels
Who makes the decision?
ISEAL Alliance
Assurance arrangementScheme evaluation against ISEAL Codes
Chain of custody
Not specified in this profile
ISEAL membershipNot specified in this profile
Conditional relationships
Claims it may support
A relationship does not mean that the standard proves or validates every use of a claim.
Legal context
Laws referencing it
Dictionary
Dictionary concepts
No reviewed dictionary cross-link is published.
Version record
What has changed
- Version 2Initial profile published after recorded site-owner/editor review of the complete standards batch.
- Version 1Initial private editorial draft imported from the reviewed standards handover.
Last verified 22 August 2026. This neutral profile is informational and does not recommend, rank or endorse the standard.