Take part in our Code of Good Practice consultation

The consultation on the second draft of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice is now open! Share your views to help shape more effective solutions to sustainability challenges. Please provide your feedback by 30 July.

Ways to provide feedback

Complete the survey
Or give detailed feedback on Code clauses in this excel version

Review the draft Code

Before providing feedback, please review the briefing note on the second draft of the Code, in one of the following formats.

Overview of the second draft of the Code
Summary of changes from the first to second drafts (for those who participated in the first consultation round)

You may also wish to review the second draft of the Code:

Additional supporting documents:

Glossary of key terms (draft)
Approach to compliance and transition period for the revised Code (draft)

Learn more

The ISEAL Code of Good Practice revises and integrates the ISEAL Impacts, Standard-Setting, and Assurance Codes of Good Practice, and also incorporates essential practices from the ISEAL Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide.

Participate in the following webinars to learn more about the draft Code:

The ISEAL Code of Good Practice: what's changed in the second draft? | ISEAL Community Member webinar, 1 June, 14:30-15:00
Introducing the second draft of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice | Consultation launch webinar, 7 June, 15:00-16:00
A guiding framework for monitoring, evaluation and learning | ISEAL Community Member webinar, 21 June, 10:00 – 11:00
Due diligence, grievance, and remediation in the ISEAL Code of Good Practice | ISEAL Community Member webinar, 12 July, 11:30-12:30

Revision and integration process

The revision and integration process is being overseen by a Steering Group, made up of a diverse group of stakeholders, who are providing guidance and support to this significant change process.

The first round of consultation ran from September to December 2022. All comments received in the consultation are publicly available in the comment log and a synopsis of feedback is also available.

The second draft of the Code incorporates feedback received in the first consultation. We supplemented this with further activities to understand stakeholder perspectives, including commissioning a review of NGO recommendations and critiques of sustainability systems, and conducting interviews with representatives of sustainability systems with innovative models.

The current consultation runs from 31 May to 30 July. Final amendments and approvals will happen later in the year or early 2024.

For more information, read the revision and integration plan, and the approach to compliance and transition period for the revised Code.