SGS and Meridia
Independent verification for EUDR compliance
About SGS
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. They operate anetwork of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supportedby a team of over 100,000 dedicated professionals. With more than 145 years of serviceexcellence, they combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to helporganisations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Their brand promise – when you need to be sure – underscores their commitment to trust, integrity and reliability, enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. They proudly deliver expert services through the SGS name and a portfolio of trusted specialised brands, including Applied Technical Services, Brightsight, Bluesign and Nutrasource.
SGS is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SGSN (ISINCH1256740924, Reuters SGSN.S, Bloomberg SGSN SW).
Meridia is SGS's geospatial partner for EUDR verification
Meridia equips SGS's auditors, technical reviewers and verification personnel with geospatialcapabilities that support independent first-mile verification and related assessments. Thisgives SGS auditors a consistent, technology-supported basis for reviewing production-origindata within their existing verification workflows.
What Meridia provides
- SGS auditors and technical reviewers access Meridia Verify directly, uploading plotcoordinates to run a geospatial verification at the point of audit
- Meridia Verify provides accurate risk scoring on deforestation, protected areas,indigenous territories and other available environmental data, flagging where localcommunity consultation may be required
- An audited methodology, applied consistently across all EUDR commodities andmore than 50 origin countries, from a single smallholder plot to a larger aggregatedsupply base
- A consistent way for SGS auditors to work with the varying levels of completenessand quality found in first-mile data across different sourcing origins
Our joint capabilities put geospatial assessments and independent verification into one process.
Within SGS's EUDR Readiness Solution, that gives companies a single route fromplot-level data to an independently verified EUDR assessment.