FINE is an informal union from four international organizations of the fair trade:

• F fair trade Labelling organizations international (FLO)
• I international fair trade Association (IFAT)
• N network OF European Worldshops (NEWS!) and
• E European fair trade Association (EFTA)

Self understanding

Since agreement the fair trade strengthens, the participants of the fair trade co-ordinate its work. They refer and represent outward position, whereby the fair trade has the possibility, its capacities to unfold together and a stronger political weight to get.

Basic conditions for a uniform occurrence are:

• a common definition of the goals of the fair trade
• common guidelines for the selection of trade partners and the definition of trading terms
• Instruments for the examination of the practice of the fair trade

Definition of the fair trade

The fair trade is an alternative beginning to the conventional world trade: Trade partner shank for a lasting development for impossible and disadvantaged producer inside and producers. Means in addition are better trading terms, consciousness-shaping and campaigns.

Goals of the fair trade

The international FINE has itself to 24. March 1999 in Utrecht united on common goals of the fair trade.

1. Improvement of getting along and well-being being issued that producer inside and producers by improvement Marktzugangs, stabilization of the producer organizations, payment of better prices and grant of continuity in the trade relation.
2. Promotion of the development chances for disadvantaged producer inside and producers, particularly women and natives as well as the protection of children from exploitation in the production process.
3. Stabilization of consciousness among the Verbraucherinnen and consumers concerning the negative effects of the world trade on producer inside and producers, so that they can positively use their purchasing power.
4. Past of an example of the partnership in the trade by means of dialogue, transparency and respect.
5. Execution of campaigns for changes with the rules and practices of the conventional world trade.
6. Keeping of the human rights by the promotion of social justice, pollution free practices and economic security.
7. Since the trade partners come from different cultural, social and economic surrounding field and manufacture also the most different products, the guidelines for the trade must be flexible and for the appropriate trade relations to be out-formulated and specified.

Requirements of the organizations of the fair trade

Selection of the trade partners

Trade partners of the fair trade are preferentially jointly organized small producers in the handicraft and in the agriculture as well as disadvantaged and suppressed female workers and workers in factories and Plantagen.

Social requirements at trade partners

The requirements at trade partners, who are independent small producers, are aligned to their existence safety device and to its responsible person co-operation. On the other hand requirements aim at trade partners with dependent persons employed at the observance and improvement of the industrial laws, the job conditions and the social, ecological and economic surrounding field.

Fair trading terms (price, Vorfinanzierung, punctual payment, Assistenz)

The paid price is to make a remuneration possible, which goes beyond the direct satisfaction of the material needs and contains a contribution for the future safety device. The total output of the fair trade must lie clearly more highly than those of the commercial trade.

Long-term trade relations

Long-term trade relations are an important guideline for the fair trade and must be therefore contractually embodied. Long-termness in the relations is ensured, if the trade runs off in connection with dialogue, transparency as well as product and system information.

Monitoring

The application of the guidelines of the fair trade have to be examinable transparency and. The monitoring must consider the development beginning and the beginning of the partnership trade relation. It must be payable, and the costs may not load the small trade partners superproportionally.

==Siehe auch== gepa, world shop

Related links

• http://www.fairtrade.net fair trade Labelling organizations international (FLO),
• http://www.ifat.org international fair trade Association (IFAT)
• http://www.worldshops.org network European Worldshops (NEWS!) - Network of European world shops
• http://www.eftafairtrade.org European fair trade Association (EFTA)

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