Any independent certifier in any industry that stands to gain commercially is inherently flawed.
This is why in any other mainstream industry, certifiers, industry bodies, standards authorities or call them what you may etc are non for profit. These bodies usually charge an admin fee so they can pay a couple of people, run some events and do a bit of marketing and for things like legal counsel.
It removes any bias.
CAP is a business and that will not change and we are naive if we think it will. What CAP chooses to call certification and how it charge for this is their business. We all come here out of free will and implicitly accept the model by being here. If we don’t like it we are free to go.
There’s room for improvement but CAP’s commercial interest is not going away so its hard to see how the model can change much.
Don’t mean to undermine the efforts of everyone in the thread but that’s the reality.