How RUGMARK works

And this is how RUGMARK works
	When carpet exporters apply for a licence to the RUGMARK Foundation, they bind themselves legally not to employ children under fourteen years of age in the production of carpets and to pay adult weavers salaries that conform to legal minimum wage requirements. In traditional family business, regular school attendance must be proved for children employed as helpers, and only the loom-owner's own children are permitted to work.
	Carpet-exporting firms furnish full information to RUGMARK complete details of looms which are working for them. These looms are regurlarly inspected.
	Carpet-exporting firms pledge to allow the RUGMARK Foundation's full-time inspectors to examine their production process at any time. NGOs also carry out random checks to see that RUGMARK Foundation regulations are being observed. Infringements of the rules might result in withdrawal of the licence. Presently RUGMARK India has seventeen full-time inspectors whereas RUGMARK Nepal has four.
	Licenced exporters affix the RUGMARK label onto the carpets, so that every carpet can be traced all the way back to the loom. The inidividual serial number on each label enables the complete identification of the carpet.
	European and American importers pay a minimum of 1 % of the import value of the labelled carpet. These fees finance social and rehabilitation programmes for the displaced children. In this way the former child weavers are safeguarded against getting pressed into illegal employment once again. Regular reports are issued on the use of funds.

And this is how RUGMARK works