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The R2:2013 Standard is the latest version of R2, the electronics recycling industry's leading certification. Each provision of the R2 Standard is designed to help ensure the quality, transparency, and environmental and social responsibility, of R2 Certified electronics recycling facilities.

R2:2013 was developed through a transparent multi-stakeholder process, consistent with ANSI essential requirements.

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The GRS is intended to meet the needs of companies looking to verify the recycled content of their products (both finished and intermediate) and to verify responsible social, environmental and chemical practices in their production. The objectives of the GRS are to define requirements to ensure accurate content claims and good working conditions, and that harmful environmental and chemical impacts are minimised. This includes companies in ginning, spinning, weaving and knitting, dyeing and printing and stitching in more than 50 countries.

When an organization chooses more than one standards for implementation together is known as Integrated Management. In which organization integrates two or three or more management system standards together for implementation in the organization. During the implementation of the integrated management system organization shall have one Quality Manual integrated with two or three or more standards together. The common business practice for integrated management system implementation or certification is ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 or ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & OHSAS 18001 or ISO 9001 & ISO 22000 or ISO 9001 & ISO 27001. The Audit and certification of an integrated management system are known as integrated management system certification.

The summarized requirement details of Integrated Management System Certification are given below :

•  One quality Manual.
•  Common Internal Audit – with integration of requirements of all standards.
•  Common Management Review Meeting.
•  Less time for development of documentation and implementation.
•  Cost effective
•  Less Audit time as compare to individual management system certification.
•  Common audit report.
•  Duplication effort reduced during implementation

The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) was set up by an act of Parliament during 1972. The erstwhile Marine Products Export Promotion Council established by the Government of India in September 1961 was converged in to MPEDA on 24th August 1972. MPEDA is given the mandate to promote the marine products industry with special reference to exports from the country. It is envisaged that this organisation would take all actions to develop and augment the resources required for promoting the exports of “all varieties of fishery products known commercially as shrimp, prawn, lobster, crab, fish, shell-fish, other aquatic animals or plants or part thereof and any other products which the authority may, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare to be marine products for the purposes of (the) Act”. The Act empowers MPEDA to regulate exports of marine products and take all measures required for ensuring sustained, quality seafood exports from the country. MPEDA is given the authority to prescribe for itself any matters which the future might require for protecting and augmenting the seafood exports from the country. It is also empowered to carry out inspection of marine products, its raw material, fixing standards, specifications, and training as well as take all necessary steps for marketing the seafood overseas.

MPEDA is the nodal agency for the holistic development of seafood industry in India to realise its full export potential as a nodal agency. Based on the recommendations of MPEDA, Government of India notified new standards for fishing vessels, storage premises, processing plants and conveyances. MPEDA’s focus is mainly on Market Promotion, Capture Fisheries, Culture Fisheries, Processing Infrastructure & Value addition, Quality Control, Research and Development.

• Registration of infrastructural facilities for seafood export trade.
• Collection and dissemination of trade information.
• Promotion of Indian marine products in overseas markets.
• Implementation of schemes vital to the industry by extending assistance for infrastructure development for better preservation and modernised processing following quality regime.
• Promotion of aquaculture for augmenting export production through hatchery development, new farm development, diversification of species and up gradation of technology
• Promotion of deep-sea fishing projects through test fishing, joint ventures and up gradation & installation of equipments to increase the efficiency of fishing.
• Market promotional activities and publicity.
• To carry out inspection of marine products, its raw material, fixing standards and specifications, training, regulating as well as to take all necessary steps for maintaining the quality of seafood that are marketed overseas.
• Impart trainings to fishermen, fish processing workers, aquaculture farmers and other stake holders in the respective fields related to fisheries.
• Conduct research and development for the aquaculture of aquatic species having export potential through Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA).
• Conduct extension and awareness activities, trainings etc through Network for Fish Quality Management and Sustainable Fishing (NETFISH) & National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA).
• To prescribe for itself any matters required for protecting and augmenting the seafood exports from the country in the future.