Our Fair Trade Nation Criteria

Why become a Fair Trade Nation?

In July 2006, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Government agreed a set of groundbreaking criteria to work toward to become the world's first two Fair Trade Nations. These represent the beginning of a long process, not a tick-box exercise, and reflect a desire to will work to make Fair Trade Nation status a genuine achievement. By changing attitudes and habits through a more widespread awareness and understanding of the way we in Scotland live, we can have a positive impact on people in the developing world whom we may never even meet.

The Aims of this campaign are: 

 • To increase awareness of Fair Trade and surrounding issues

 • To increase the sale of Fair Trade products

 • To contribute to greater trade justice

 • To engender a meaningful commitment to Fair Trade from the Scottish Parliament
   and executive bodies

 1. The following must be achieved in order to become a Fair Trade Nation:

  • 100% of Local Authorities have Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Zone status

  • 55% of our Local Authorities having achieved Fairtrade Zone status. In following years, this must increase 10% per year until all 32 are Fairtrade Zones        

  • 100% of cities have achieved Fairtrade City status         

  • At least 55% of towns have Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Town status   

  • 60% of universities have active Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade status
  • The percentage of people who know about Fair Trade must increase 5% every year to reach 75%.
  •     75% of those people must buy a Fairtrade product every year
  • 40% of those people must regularly buy Fairtrade products


 

2. The Scottish Parliament must:

  • Produce an annual statement in support of Fair Trade

  • Use and promote Fairtrade products internally including Fairtrade tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits at all meetings

  • Ensure Fairtrade is available at all catering outlets

  • Actively promote Fairtrade Fortnight each year

     

 3. The Scottish Government must resolve to:

  • Use and promote Fairtrade products internally including Fairtrade tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits at all meetings

  • Ensure Fairtrade products are available at all catering outlets

  • Actively promote Fairtrade Fortnight each year

  • Produce an annual public report on the progress of the Fair Trade Nation campaign

  • Actively support the promotion and development of Fair Trade including:

      - Seeking to develop pro-Fair Trade public sector procurement guidance and promote Fair Trade public sector procurement wherever possible

      - Promote Fair Trade in schools through curriculum, procurement and any other means possible

  • Promote Fair Trade at an international level and through international trade agreements, where appropriate.

  • Acknowledge the role of Fair Trade in economic development policies