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ISEAL Alliance International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
ISO International Organisation for Standardisation. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
ISO 17021 ISO/IEC 17021: 2011, Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
ISO 17065 ISO/IEC 17065: 2011, General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
ISO 19011 ISO/IEC 19011: 2011, Guidelines for auditing management systems. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Justification Rationale establishing that no adverse impact on the competence, consistency and impartiality of the CAB’s operation of the certification program has resulted. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Key elements Aspects of the fishery which are essential to determining how the fishery performs against the MSC Fisheries Standard. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Key information Key information is defined as all information used by the assessment team for scoring and in rationales that is not considered confidential information under FCP v3.0/v2.3 4.3, and that would be required to enable a stakeholder to be able to properly review the logic used by the team in their conclusion about a particular PI score. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Key personnel Staff within an organisation that make decisions or carry out procedures related to MSC certification or conformity with MSC standards. Within a CAB, key personnel will include staff that make decisions on certification, and top management. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Lead assessor/Lead auditor Assessor/auditor who is given the overall responsibility for specified assessment/audit activities related to management systems conformity assessment/audit. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Legal Entity Any individual, partnership, proprietorship, corporation, association or other organisation that has, in the eyes of the law, the capacity to make a contract or an agreement and the abilities to assume an obligation and to pay off its debts. A legal entity, under the law, is responsible for its actions and can be sued for damages. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Legal ownership Organisations are considered to take legal ownership if they issue invoices related to the sale of certified product and collect payment for the sale of certified product, or are able to demonstrate their financial ownership of certified product materials based on other documentation (such as internal transfer slips, contracts, or deeds). CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Legal Requirements Any present or future law, regulation, directive, instruction, direction or rule of any competent authority including any amendment, extension or replacement thereof which is from time to time in force. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Level Layer within the assessment tree hierarchy: principle; component; performance indicator; or scoring issue. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Licence agreement The “Licence”, which when signed incorporates the Terms and Conditions of the Agreement and its Annexes and which together with MSCI approval constitute the Agreement. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Limit Reference Point The point beyond which the state of a fishery and/or a resource is not considered desirable and which management is aiming to avoid. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Local Fisheries Management Area(s) Local fisheries management area/s (e.g. ICES divisions VI, VII, and VIII a, b, c), Preferably the area is marked on a map. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
LRP See: Limit reference point. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj
Main Commercial Market The main markets within which fish and fish product resulting from the fishery are sold. CoC; CoCCR; FCP; FS; GCR; Obj

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