Responsible Jewelry Council Certification Services
Introduction
Responsible Jewelry Council’s Code of Practice (CoP) is a landmark standard for the jeweler supply chain and addresses a wide range of supply chain issues, including business ethics, human rights, social and environmental performance.
Bureau Veritas is accredited by the RJC and can provide members with third-party verification services in different countries worldwide. Our extensive expertise in certifications helps guide companies through the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) certification process, ensuring ethical and sustainable practices within the jewelry industry.
As an accredited RJC certification body, we conduct thorough on-site assessments, providing impartial and objective evaluations of companies' operations post self-assessment completed by the member company. Upon successful completion of the audit, we submit our recommendations to the RJC, enabling companies that meet the stringent requirements to obtain RJC Certification.
Sectors
The Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC) covers the following key operations across the jewelry and precious metals supply chain:
- Mining of diamonds, coloured gemstones, silver, gold, platinum group metals
- Retail and wholesale trade
- Trade in gold and/or silver and/or platinum groups, refining of precious metals
- Trade in diamonds and/or coloured gemstones, cutting and polishing
- Production/manufacturing of jewellery
- Tertiary sector like laboratories for analysis of precious stones and metals
Challenges
The precious metals industry has intensified its focus on ethical sourcing practices due to consumer concerns over human rights and environmental impacts throughout the supply chain. Leading organizations now prioritize implementing stringent standards and protocols to uphold workers' rights and environmental sustainability across all facets of precious metal extraction, production, and distribution.
The Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC), a global non-profit established in 2005, spearheads the integration of responsible practices throughout the jewelry supply chain, from mining to retail. Achieving RJC Certification is a mandatory requirement for commercial members within two years, involves a meticulous assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice's stringent criteria.
With Bureau Veritas’ RJC Certification service, jewelry companies can demonstrate ethical, social, and environmental performance.
Our impact
BV is performing over 600 man-days RJC certification audits per year.
Why Bureau Veritas?
Bureau Veritas is an ideal partner due to its market leadership, certifying over 380,000 companies across 100 countries. Its widespread network of skilled auditors and global/local intelligence capabilities ensure high-quality assessments tailored to each organization's context. As an RJC Accredited Certification Body since 2012, Bureau Veritas offers extensive expertise across the full RJC certification scope. BV is also a London Bullion Market Association partner, providing Dodd-Frank Act compliance services like training, gap analysis, and third-party audits for organizations in the precious metals supply chain.
Success story
Below are some of the certified Companies by BV:
Unoaerre - Italian Jewellery | Palmiero - Jewellery Design | Pomellato - Milano 1967 | Borsalino |
CRIVELLI - Luxury Jewellery | Bottega Veneta - Italian Fashion | GUCCI |
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Our services
- Self-Assessment:
The company, after completing its self-assessment, requests the intervention of the Third-Party auditor recognized by RJC. - Auditor Verification Assessment:
Following the positive judgment of the auditor, the latter can send the documentation to RJC with the request for Certification, which will be issued by RJC itself. - Certification:
Based on the results of the audit, and the recommendation made by the auditor, RJC will adopt the Certification decision.