Certification

A Certification is an official and authoritative statement about a subject, for example a product, service, person, or organization. A certification is typically issued by an indendent certification body, for example a professional organization or government. It formally attests certain characteristics about the subject, for example Organizations can be ISO certified, Food products can be certified Organic or Vegan, a Person can be a certified professional, a Place can be certified for food processing. There are certifications for many domains: regulatory, organizational, recycling, food, efficiency, educational, ecological, etc. A certification is a form of credential, as are accreditations and licenses. Mapped from the [gs1:CertificationDetails](https://www.gs1.org/voc/CertificationDetails) class in the GS1 Web Vocabulary.

Required properties

• issuedBy10K - 100KGRequired

  Organization The authority or certification body responsible for issuing the certification. Use the property name to specify the organization. At this time, we support the following names: EC or European_Commission for energy labels in the EU ADEME for French CO2 emissions classes for vehicles BMWK for German CO2 emissions classes for vehicles

• name10M+GRequired

  Text The name of the certification. At this time, we support the following values: EPREL, which represents energy efficiency certifications in the EU European Registry for Energy Labeling (EPREL) database. Vehicle_CO2_Class for the overall CO2 class of a vehicle Vehicle_CO2_Class_Discharged_Battery for the CO2 class of a vehicle with a discharged battery

Recommended properties

• certificationIdentification1K - 10KGRecommended
• certificationRating< 1KGRecommended