MRV Case Study

Consider the following situation of an organization seeking verification under MRV:

• Number of direct suppliers is 6.374 located as follows:

  • Transition Cerrado/Atlantic Forest 86

  • Amazon 145

  • Caatinga 7

  • Cerrado 5.931

  • Atlantic forest 205

The company operates an SAP system to manage its commercial transactions and register suppliers, among other functions. All the suppliers in the Cerrado region have known traceability information.

1. How would you organize the sampling of the verification activities associated with this client?

2. What evidence/check in your view is satisfactory to guarantee the avoidance of double counting?

3. What checks would you make to confirm that no triangulation (selling commodities from other areas as if they were produced in a given region) is occurring?