Qibla Council

With its constitutive session on April 20th, 2011 in Wildeshausen (Lower Saxony) ten Muslim Authorities from three European countries, which approve and accompany the Qibla Food Control standard for Halal certifications, founded the Qibla Council as common regulatory and supervisory committee.

The Qibla Council is an alliance of Muslim authorities, who already test products all over Europe for their halal compliance, manage and develop the underlying halal standard religiously on their own responsibility.

The board represents the standard to the outside and in dialogue with other certifiers and certification institutes. It monitors the development of the market and continuously develops the standard on the basis and in the interest of a transparent, independent and professional halal certification.

Because of the Qibla Council as an administrative and controlling body, the QFC halal standard is supported not only by a single mosque or faith community – as with traditional certifiers – but by representatives of various Muslim schools of law.

This is a novelty in the “World of Halal certifications” and groundbreaking for the further development towards the much needed uniform halal certification standard.