LIA-112 Standards Management Criteria

The objective of this document is to ensure that all approved standards under the Leather Impact Accelerator (LIA) not only conform to the relevant standard benchmark scope (Animal Welfare, Leather Production Environmental, and Leather Production Social) but are also credible standards that are developed, audited, and maintained in a transparent and robust fashion according to ISEAL Alliance credibility principles. The aim of this document is that the standards criteria are clear and auditable.

For any standard to be approved by LIA, it shall meet one of the LIA standard benchmarks as well as the Standards Management Criteria.