Report on costs & benefits of compliance with voluntary market-based labelling & certification schemes.

This delivery will adress the current use and potential of voluntary market-based labelling & certification schemes for different channel actors. It will also examine interactions, cost/ benefits and areas of overlap between mandatory and major voluntary certification and recommendation schemes (e.g. MSC, GlobalGAP, ASC, BAP, SFP, Greenpeace red-list), and identify harmonization mechanisms/ equivalence criteria for voluntary and mandatory schemes (e.g. Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI)) with the aim of reducing costs to producers and improving overall compliance