This publication presents papers of the sixth meeting of the ITF, held in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2006. Also included here is the first draft of the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB), which is a tool for equivalence of organic conformity assessment systems. In addition, the volume contains an ITF Communiqué.

The ITF work has continued in 2007 and 2008. In particular, the IROCB has been going through intensive consultations and is, at the time of printing of this volume, in its near final form. It is hoped that the IROCB will be used by governments and other accreditation bodies as a basis for recognizing the certification bodies under each other’s control. Such recognition would streamline trade of certified products.