1. Definition of the Fair trade

The Fair trade is an alternative approach to the conventional commerce; it promotes social and economic justice, sostenibile development, respect for the persons and the atmosphere, through the commerce, the increase of the knowledge of the consumers, the education, the information and the political action.

The Fair trade is one equal relation between all the subjects been involved in the commercialization chain: producers, workers, Botteghe del Mondo, importers and consumers.

2. Objectives of the Fair trade

1. To improve the living conditions of the producers increasing the market access, strengthening the organizations of producers, paying a better price and assuring continuity in the relations trades them.
2. To promote opportunity of development for svantaggiati producers, especially groups of women and aboriginal populations and protect the children from the exploitation in the production process.
3. To disclose information on the economic mechanisms of exploitation, through the sale of products, favoring and stimulating in the consumers the increase of an alternative attitude to the dominant economic model and the search of new models of development.
4. To organize relationships trades them and of job nonprofit and in the respect of the human dignity, increasing the knowledge of the consumers on the effects denied to you that the international commerce has on the producers, in such way that can exercise just purchasing power in positive way.
5. Protect the human rights promuovendo social justice, sostenibilità acclimatizes them, economic emergency.
6. To favor the creation of opportunity of job to just conditions as well as in the Countries economically svantaggiati as in that economically developed.
7. It favors the encounter between critical consumers us and producers of the Countries economically less developed.
8. It supports the autosviluppo economic and social.
9. To stimulate the national and international institutions to complete economic choices and trades them to defense of the small producers, of the economic stability and of the protection it acclimatizes them, carrying out campaigns of information and pressure so that they change to the rules and the practical one of the conventional international commerce.
10. It promotes a fair use and sostenibile of the resources it acclimatizes them.

3. Criteria adopted by Fair trade organizations

The organizations of Fair trade (Botteghe del Mondo, Importers, Producers, Exporter) are engaged to share and to put into effect, in just the charter or the mission, the produced informative material and the actions, the definition and objects you to it of the Fair trade. In particular they are engaged to:

1. To guarantee job conditions that respect the rights of the sanctioned workers from conventions OIL.
2. Not to resort to the infantile job and not to take advantage of the minorile job, acting in the respect of the International Convention on the rights of Infancy.
3. To pay a fair price that guarantees to all the distribution and import, export, production organizations an just gain; the fair price for the producer is the price agreed with the same producer on the base of the cost of the raw materials, of the cost of the local job, every the dignitosa and regular retribuzione for single producer.
4. To guarantee to the workers an just retribuzione for the carried out job being assured equal working opportunities and pays wages to them without distinctions of sex, age, social condition, political religion, convictions
5. To respect the atmosphere and to promote a sostenibile development in all are made of production and commercialization, privileging and promuovendo biological productions, the use of recyclables materials, and production processes and distributive to low impact acclimatize them.
6. To adopt organizational structures transparent democratics and in all the aspects of the activity and in which collective participation to the decisional process is guaranteed one
7. To be involved producers of base, volunteers and workers in the decisions that regard them.
8. To plow back the profits in the productive activity and/or to social benefit of the workers (p.e. deep social).
9. To guarantee to the consumers a transparent price, that he supplies at least the following information: price FOB paid to the supplier, operating costs, import and transport, margin for the Botteghe. Such information can be indicated in percentage or absolute value, for single product or category of products, or country of origin, or group of producers.
10. To guarantee a multidirectional flow of information that concurs to know the political modalities of job, strategies and trades them and the associate-economic context of every organization.
11. To promote informative, educational and political actions on the fair trade and loyal, the relationships between the Countries svantaggiati from an economic Country and point of view economically develops to you and on the thematic ones connected.
12. To guarantee relationships trades them direct and continued to you, avoiding shapes of speculative intermediation, excluding mutual constrictions and/or impositions and concurring one better mutual acquaintance.
13. To privilege plans that promote the improvement of the condition of the categories more weak people.
14. To value and to privilege the handicraft products expressions of the cultural, social bases and religious premises because bearers of information and base for a cultural exchange
15. To cooperate, acknowledging mutual, to actions common and to favor sharing and exchange moments, being privileged the common purposes regarding the particular interests. In order to avoid actions that weaken the Fair trade they engage, moreover, in case of controversies, to make a dialogue and comparison distance, eventually with the aid of a facilitatore.
16. To guarantee relations trades them free and transparent, promoting development processes and coordinating itself in the spirit of the art. 3.15.
17. To guarantee transparency in the economic management with particular attention to the incomes

4. Botteghe del Mondo

The Botteghe del Mondo are organizations of distribution by piece of the products of the fair trade that share object you to it of the Fair trade and respect the criteria list to you in Understood it the 3 of this Paper.

The Botteghe del Mondo must:

1. To commercialize mostly the products of the Fair trade, imports to you is directly that through It centers them to them of Import.
2. To choose the external suppliers to the circuit of the fair trade and loyal between those organizes to you in structures no-profit, with social purposes and transparent management and democratic and that they have produced echo-compatible and cultural. Not to undertake relations trades them with companies that, certainty, violate human and workers rights.
3. To promote initiatives of loyal economy R-al.meglio of the own possibilities.
4. To supply to the consumers all the informative material available, comprised the cards of the transparent price.
5. To support the campaigns of sensibilizzazione and pressure, lead to national and international level, times to realize objects you to it of the Fair trade.
6. To maintain itself constantly informed on the products that come sold, verifying that they come respects the criteria to you of the Fair trade.
7. To be nonprofit.
8. To insert, R-appena.possibile, staff stipendiato to the inside of the structure, being guaranteed an adapted formation.
9. To value and to form the volunteers and to guarantee they it participation to the decisional processes.
10. The Botteghe of the World, moreover, tries, R-al.meglio of the own possibilities, of:
11. To start and to maintain contacts directed with marginal experiences of autosviluppo, are in native place that in the Countries economically svantaggiati to the aim to establish one risen of equosolidale gemellaggio. The maintenance of the contacts passes through the exchange to epistolare, the commercialization of the eventual products, the organization of exchange travels, the spread of the information to the frequent visitors of the Bottega and the other Botteghe, and every other suitable means in order to allow the acquaintance of places, persons, modality of life and production that can be associated to the concepts with which the Fair trade is defined

5. Importers

The Importers are organizations that have which prevailing activity in the social scope, and which effective prevailing activity, the purchase of products of the Fair trade from export and production organisms, and rivendono them priority to the Botteghe of the World. The resource to external suppliers to the circuit of the Fair trade must be works them to the social scopes, and to it objects you of the same Fair trade.

The Importers share object you to it of the Fair trade and respect the criteria list to you in Understood it the 3 of this Paper.

They must:

1. To offer to the producers, if from they demanded, the pre-financing of the goods, and to favor other shapes of fair credit or microcredit, in case possibilities of access to credits do not exist in native place.
2. To promote, also through the mutual collaboration, relationships of continuity, in order to maintain a climate of authentic exchange, in order to favor one greater stability for the outlets of market of the producers, and in order to allow a effective improvement of the living conditions on breve/medio/lungo the period.
3. To supply support to the production organizations and export: formation, advisings, market researches, development of products, feedback on the products and the market.
4. To make sure themselves that the principles of the fair trade and loyal are known and flavored the producers and to work with these in order to apply them.
5. To supply attendance to the Botteghe del Mondo informing them on the products and the producers through informative cards that the transparent price of the products and being contain available to supply, upon request, the documentation of support.
6. To make available to the subjects of the Fair trade, engaging itself to the transparency, the access to the regarding information the own activity (trades them and cultural) and to the own technical competences not available in the Botteghe del Mondo.
7. To give possibility to the Botteghe del Mondoto make travels of acquaintance near the producers (and viceversa), respecting the criteria of the responsible Tourism expressed in the document "responsible Tourism: Identity card for sostenibili travels "

6. Producers and Exporter

6.1 Producers

The Producers are production organizations and commercialization of handicraft and foods that shares objects they you of the Fair trade and respects the criteria lists to you in Understood it the 3 of this Paper.

The Producers must:

1. To pursue logical of selfdevelopment and autonomy of the local populations.
2. To avoid one economic dependency towards the export, to scapito of the production for the local market.
3. To avoid to export produced alimentary and to raw materials handycrafts scarseggianti or of with these obtained.
4. To favor the use of raw materials premises.
5. To guarantee the quality of the product.

In case the producers are not in a position to exporting directly can use of export organizations.

6.2 Exporter

The Exporter are organizations that they acquire from the producers as he specifies you to the art.6.1 and sell mainly to defined importers like in these criteria; they share object you to it of the Fair trade and respect the criteria list to you in Understood it the 3 of this Paper.

The exporter must:

1. To make sure themselves that the princìpi of the Fair trade the producers are known and to work with these in order to apply them.
2. To supply support to the production organizations: formation, advising, market researches, product development, feedback on the products and the market.
3. To give to the producers, if from these demanded, the pre-financing of the goods or other shapes of fair credit or microcredit.
4. To supply information on the products and the producers and the prices pays to you to the producers.
5. To guarantee relationships of continuity with the producers

The products those not riconducibili products to an only raw materials transform to you are all: biscotti, chocolate, dolciumi, etc:

1. The product transforms to you only can be defined in label "product of fair trade" if at least 50% of the frank cost transformer of the raw materials or 50% of the weight of the raw materials are of fair trade and loyal
2. The elaboration of the products transforms to you, laddove of it exists the conditions, would have to happen in the Countries of origin.
3. The transformation must be carried out from subjects of the loyal economy or however from cooperatives or enterprises that are not in contrast with the principles of the fair trade and loyal.
4. The products transform to you must bring back in label: "Total ingredients of the Fair trade: % ".
5. In the products it transforms to you, the choice of the other ingredients regarding those of the Fair trade must be inspired to the criteria exposed to the art.3.5 of this Paper