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		Summary of AA1000
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The AA1000 Assurance Standard is a generally applicable standard for assessing, attesting to, and strengthening the credibility and quality of organisations’ sustainability reporting, and their underlying processes, systems and competencies. It provides guidance on key elements of the assurance process. This tool provides a simple summary of the standard. It includes an explanation of the principles to be applied in an assurance process undertaken using the AA1000 Assurance Standard: materiality, completeness and responsiveness.

This tool is aimed at managers and practitioners with responsibilities for sustainability within organisations.

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