Criteria for Scotland to become a fair trade nation

TO BECOME a Fair Trade nation, Scotland has to meet a number of strict criteria.

They are:

100 per cent of local authorities have Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Zone status

55per cent of Scottish local authorities have achieved Fairtrade Zone status. In following years, this must increase 10 per cent per year until all 32 are Fairtrade Zones.

10 per cent of cities have achieved Fairtrade City status.

55 percentage of towns having Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Town status .

60 per cent of universities have active Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade status.

5%The percentage of people who know about Fair Trade must increase 5 per cent every year to reach 75 per cent.

75 per cent of those people must buy a Fairtrade product every year.

45 per cent of those people must regularly buy Fairtrade products.