Expert, independent governance to guarantee quality standards

✔ Structure the reference systems on a robust basis,
✔ Regularly update the criteria, in line with feedback from the field and scientific advances,
✔ Guarantee the transparency, impartiality and credibility of the proposed tools. 

📌 It acts independently of IRICE, in compliance with a clear ethical framework and external requirements.

 

• 🌱 Ecologists and naturalists,
• 🏗 Urban planners and architects,
• 🏛 Public players and local authorities,
• 📊 Experts in ESG, sustainable finance and extra-financial reporting,
• 🧪 Researchers and members of scientific organizations.

This diversity ensures that :
✔ Reflect the reality of practices,
✔ Are based on objective and balanced criteria,
✔ Are intelligible, applicable and consistently audited.

The BSC participates in the validation of modifications, additions or deletions of indicators in :

  

• The Effinature standard (certification),
• BPS standards (label).

Each update of the reference systems is subject to :

 

• A technical instruction,
• A committee vote,
• An official publication with public documentation.

💬 This process guarantees the stability, transparency and accuracy of the IRICE repositories.

✔ Analyzes feedback from audits and certifications,
✔ Monitors changes in professional practices and standards,
✔ Integrates the results of R&D projects carried out by IRICE or its partners,
✔ Participates in theemergence of new indicators or thematic modules (health, resilience, HVE...). 

🎯 It thus plays a scientific watch and methodological regulation role within IRICE.

 

• Clear internal regulations,
• Principles of neutrality and transparency,
• No remuneration for advice given (except for specifically funded research).

📌 These rules ensure the absence of conflicts of interest and reinforce the regulatory and financial value of IRICE certifications.