This document sets out international requirements for organic certification bodies (IROCB). These requirements are intended to represent a consensus on good practices in organic conformity assessment among private and public institutions. IROCB aims to provide a baseline for assessing the equivalence of services performed by various certification bodies outside a specific organic system. The IROCB would thus serve as a tool for enabling recognition of certification bodies’ services in international trade by other certification bodies and systems, so that governments or accreditation/approval bodies could approve each other’s requirements as equivalent in order to allow products certified to enter the system.