[§420D-12]  Third-party standard.  A third-party standard for purposes of defining, reporting, and assessing overall corporate social and environmental performance of a sustainable business corporation subject to this chapter shall be:

     (1)  Comprehensive in its assessment of the effect of the business and its operations upon the interests listed in section 420D-6(a);

     (2)  Developed by an organization that is independent of the sustainable business corporation; and

     (3)  Transparent because the following information is publicly available:

          (A)  The criteria considered when measuring the overall social and environmental performance of a business, as well as the relative weightings of those criteria;

          (B)  The identity of the directors, officers, any material owners, and the governing body of the organization that developed and controls revisions to the standard;

          (C)  The process by which revisions to the standard are made;

          (D)  The process by which changes to the membership of the governing body of the organization that developed and controls revisions to the standard are made; and

          (E)  An accounting of the sources of financial support for the organization that developed and controls revisions to the standard, with sufficient detail to disclose any relationships that could reasonably be considered to present a potential conflict of interest. [L 2011, c 209, pt of §1]