ISEAL Alliance
Budget
€7,730,774
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
5
3 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
ISEAL supports ambitious sustainability systems and their partners to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. With our growing global network and our focus on credible practices, we drive impact and make markets a force for good. Our membership works across more than a hundred countries, in sectors from forestry and seafood to biomaterials and extractives. Independent research illustrates their impacts in production, supply chains and business practices. Our Codes of Good Practice support sustainability systems to improve how they operate and deliver greater impact. Our Credibility Principles help businesses and governments make informed choices about the systems they work with, pushing the schemes to further improve. We work by defining credible practice for sustainability systems based on emerging global consensus, convening forums for collaboration, sharing of experience and collective action, delivering expertise, advice and training, and facilitating and promoting.
EU Legislative Interests
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive on Green Claims Regulation on Deforestation-free products Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market Forced Labour Regulation The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Public Procurement Framework Nature Credits
Communication Activities
ISEAL tracks policy developments at EU level related to claims, due diligence, reporting and disclosure, among other corporate sustainability regulation. We seek one on one meetings with representatives from EU institutions such, as the EU Commission. ISEAL has engaged in a series of face-to-face meetings and events with senior civil servants at DG ENV, DG JUST, DG GROW; virtual meetings with Special Rapporteurs and Country Representatives to the European Union; in EU working groups on forced labour and nature credits; and submitted into public consultations. We have supported EU policymakers to recognise the role and potential contribution of credible sustainability systems and practices. Notably, in 2025, we held our flagship Sustainability Policy Forum that featured a wide range of EU policymakers as speakers and participants. ISEAL's engagement with EU representatives has revealed their interest in more engagement with ISEAL, both to learn more about how sustainability systems work, and to better understand credible practices. Our efforts to date aim to allow better understanding of ISEAL (including its Credibility Principles) and credible sustainability systems amongst recognised key actors and stakeholders in Brussels. This is an ongoing effort: in 2026, we will build on previous positions and early engagements with EU policymakers and continue to support policymakers as they move towards implementation. Publications: ISEAL Submission to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the Forced Labour Regulation (March 2026) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2026-03/ISEAL%20submission%20into%20the%20EU%20FLR%20Call%20for%20Evidence.pdf ISEAL input into the EU Public Procurement Directive (Jan. 2026) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2026-01/EU%20rules%20on%20Public%20Procurement.pdf ISEAL response to the Call for Evidence on the Environmental Omnibus Initiative (Sept. 2025) ISEAL Submission to the European Commission Public Consultation on the EU Nature Credits Roadmap (Sept. 2025) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2025-09/EU%20Nature%20Credits%20consultation%20submission.pdf ISEAL inputs on EU Omnibus Amendments to the CSDDD (June 2025) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2025-07/ISEAL_Omnibus_CSDDD_Amendments_June%202025_0.pdf ISEAL remaining questions on the EU Deforestation Regulation (January 2025) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2025-03/EUDR%20remaining%20questions%20-%20ISEAL%20January%202025.pdf Towards effective implementation of EUDR – ISEAL technical guidance (April 2024) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2024-04/Towards%20effective%20implementation%20of%20EUDR%20-%20ISEAL%20technical%20guidance%20April%202024.pdf Comparative Analysis of the EU Empowering Consumers Directive (ECD) and the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems (July 2025) https://isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2025-07/Relationship%20between%20ISEAL%20Code%20and%20ECD.pdf ISEAL: Green Claims Directive Trilogue Messages to the EU Council and Parliament (Jan. 2025) https://www.isealalliance.org/what-we-do/sustainability-policy-and-regulation/green-claims-policies Enhancing the role of credible sustainability standards within the EU GCD Framework (Sept. 2024) https://www.isealalliance.org/get-involved/resources/enhancing-role-credible-sustainability-standards-within-eu-gcd-framework
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
ISEAL Alliance is a member of the Charity Finance Group . webaddress : www.cfg.org.uk - a charity (non-profit public benefit organisation) that supports UK Charities with financial matters. ISEAL Alliance is a member of Charity Comms. Web address : https://www.charitycomms.org.uk/ - a charity (non profit, public benefit organisation) that supports UK Charities on communication matters. ISEAL Alliance has a liason status with ISO CASCO : webaddress https://www.iso.org/committee/54998.html ISEAL Alliance is a member of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Actions and Markets Working Group web address : https://ghgprotocol.org/our-governance#Actions%20and%20Market%20Instruments
Organisation Members
https://www.isealalliance.org/iseal-community-members The ISEAL Alliance's legal members are those listed as Code compliant members within the given webpage. Over 80% of these are non profit organisations.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.