The LEVEL certification programme has been created in order to provide an accredited and holistic means of evaluating and communicating the environmental and social impacts of furniture products in the built environment. From the very beginning, the goal was to create a system of sustainability certification in form of an ISO 14024 type I label that covers all the relevant aspects of sustainability: the products themselves, all the facilities where the products and their components are manufactured and the organisational behaviour

Standard Owner is the European Federation of Office Furniture (FEMB). FEMB is the federation of national asssociations and companies in the office furniture sector in Europe

The FEMB standard and the associated conformity assessment program are accredited according to ISO 17065 by the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) and European Accreditation (EA). Certificates are issued exclusively by certification bodies that must also be accredited according to ISO 17065. This ensures neutral testing of all products at the highest level without the possibility of influence by the standard owner FEMB. Certificate holders and products can be found on the website.