Public Trust and Ethics Forum

Mandate

The forum reviews questions related to public harm, procedural legitimacy, institutional fairness, and ecosystem-level trust impacts. It is the organ that keeps IAASO anchored to its public-interest boundary (Article II, Section 5) rather than narrowing into a commercial labeling scheme.

Responsibilities

• Review of public-harm questions raised by standards or certification practice
• Assessment of procedural legitimacy and institutional fairness
• Advice on ecosystem-level trust impacts of proposed standards
• Input to the annual accountability report (Article XVI, Section 4)

Composition

Deliberately broad: institutional members, individual experts, and observers may all be seated, so that perspectives beyond implementers — operators, researchers, affected communities — are represented.