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BSCI and ICS will complete the merger in January 2017(Time:2016-12-07 10:41:11)

      March 16, 2016, BSCI and ICS official website also announced that the merger of the two issues has entered the final stage. Under the auspices of the European Foreign Trade Association (FTA) in Brussels on April 2, 2015, an official document was signed on behalf of two major European societies, BSCI and ICS, on the initiative of more than 1,000 retailers, large multinationals and import enterprises Agreement, the agreement is scheduled for January 1, 2017 BSCI and ICS to complete the merger.
      The agreement will continue until January 1, 2017, and the BSCI-ICS Joint Steering Group will coordinate and supervise the normal operation of the workplace. On 1 January 2017, BSCI and ICS will complete the merger.
      BSCI is not only suitable for all walks of life, and is widely used in European buyers, and ICS is mainly used in French customers. BSCI and ICS will unify their standards and processes and strive to continually improve the work environment in the global supply chain to meet the social responsibility challenges of increasingly complex supply chains around the world.
      About ICS (Initiative Clause Sociale):
       In the autumn of 1998, the members of the French Commercial and Marketing Union, in accordance with the ILO Convention and inspired by the SA8000 standard, proposed the Social Terms Act (ICS). The proposal focuses on direct suppliers of non-food consumer products in countries of origin.
       Today, ICS members include 20 major retailers in France and Belgium, including two of Europe's largest retailers - Carrefour and Auchan.
      The following are current members of ICS:

      ICS audit is the score system, based on different scores and key points, the audit results are divided into A, B, C, D, E five, and different members of the results of the requirements are different.
      The following are the eight notarized banks that can perform ICS audits:

      BSCI and ICS will work together to provide first-class systems and services to BSCI's monitoring, training activities, and ICS's extensive audit experience, and to avoid duplication of audits and cost increases, which will also become the International Social Responsibility Standards Development of new trends.