Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.
Madison, WI -- Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.
Leonardo Academy--the neutral, third-party ANSI-accredited alignment facilitating the development action of SCS-001--received 175 applications from individuals and organizations absorbed in confined on the voting anatomy for the standard. Applications were submitted from all stakeholder categories (i.e., producers, users, environmentalists, and accepted interest) and above all sectors of agriculture, demonstrating the advanced ambit of interests and levels of assurance a allotment of stakeholders in the accepted development action affective forward. Due to this cutting response, the admeasurement of the Standards Committee was added from 40 associates to 58 associates to ensure that the voting anatomy is broadly adumbrative of the many, assorted sectors of agronomics represented beneath the accepted abstract standard. The account of applicants called to serve on the Standards Committee is acquaint at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.
"Leonardo Academy was actual admiring to see the above and assortment of applications submitted," said Michael Arny, admiral of Leonardo Academy. "We had to accomplish boxy decisions, back there were abounding added able applicants than seats to ample on the voting committee. Fortunately, the Standards Committee represents alone one access for participation. Everyone who activated will be able to break complex in the development action through breath accord on the subcommittees that will be alive on the agreeable of the final standard."
Criteria that were advised for alternative included the applicant's 1) absorption and acquaintance in the abstract accepted accountable area, 2) abstruse ability as activated to the goals, issues, and all-embracing ambit of the standard, 3) standards autograph experience, 4) acquaintance alive on multi-stakeholder committees and in consensus-building initiatives, 5) area representation and 6) sustainability affiliations.
The next footfall in the accepted development action for SCS-001 will be the aboriginal Standards Committee meeting, to be captivated September 10, 2008 (location to be announced). One of the aboriginal orders of business for the Committee will be to anatomy the issue-specific and sector-specific subcommittees based on stakeholder ascribe to date. Individuals absorbed in accommodating at the subcommittee akin are encouraged to abide appointment applications, advertence their absorption areas and thereby accouterment advice to the Standards Committee in its antecedent deliberations on subcommittee identification.
For Additional Information
Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1 @ leonardoacademy.org
http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm
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