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financial and technical assistance to develop and maintain appropriate manage-
ment arrangements that will allow them to participate in such schemes. Such
assistance should also consider direct support towards the often high costs of
accreditation and certification. Development agencies and donor institutions are
encouraged to support FAO in facilitating financial and technical assistance to
developing countries and countries in transition.
3.3.4
Terms and definitions
The section draws heavily on terminology, definitions and standards agreed within
the framework of the ISO dealing with general requirements on accreditation and
certification. It also contains a series of definitions that were specifically developed
by the expert and technical consultations for the marine and inland capture fisheries
ecolabelling guidelines.
The concept of the unit of certification (paragraph 25) is of special interest as it
provides for the possibility of a fishery becoming certified which harvests only a
component of a stock. As will become evident in the next section, for purposes of
gauging the health of the stock, however, the impact of all fisheries on this stock
would have to be taken into account.
The inland fisheries experts concluded that geographic boundaries of inland
fisheries did not need to be defined. 'As fish stocks contributing to river, lake and
reservoir fisheries may also, in some cases, be caught in estuarine and marine areas,
the consideration of impacts of all fisheries utilizing a stock or stocks across their
entire area of distribution,
including all life stages
, is an important element of
assessing the state of the “stock under consideration”' (FAO 2006).
The expert consultation on inland fisheries added terms for culture-based fish-
eries, enhanced fisheries and introduced species. These are indicated below in
Arabic letters next to the paragraph numbers. The enhancement features of many
inland fisheries are the critical distinction from marine capture fisheries. The ex-
perts drew a line between capture fisheries and aquaculture that permits artificial
stocking but not artificial feeding.
7.
For the purpose of these International Guidelines, the following terms and
definitions apply.
Accreditation
8.
Procedure by which a competent authority gives formal recognition that a
qualified body or person is competent to carry out specific tasks.
(Based on ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996, 12.11)
Accreditation body
9.
Body that conducts and administers an accreditation system and grants
accreditation.
(Based on ISO Guide 2, 17.2)
Accreditation system
10.
System that has its own rules of procedure and management for carrying out
accreditation.
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