{
  "_meta": {
    "promotion_blockers": [
      "Glossary requires sign-off from a current COCOBOD-licensed compliance officer",
      "Authority levels are a starter model; replace with the actual delegation matrix"
    ],
    "review_required": [
      "COCOBOD-affiliated SME",
      "exporter compliance team"
    ],
    "status": "draft"
  },
  "authority": {
    "levels": {
      "compliance-officer": {
        "approvals_required": [
          "depot-keeper"
        ],
        "scope": [
          "audit-grade",
          "release-evacuation",
          "approve-payment"
        ]
      },
      "depot-keeper": {
        "approvals_required": [
          "field-agent"
        ],
        "scope": [
          "confirm-receipt",
          "report-discrepancy"
        ]
      },
      "field-agent": {
        "approvals_required": [],
        "scope": [
          "record-purchase",
          "record-grade",
          "request-evacuation"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "compliance": {
    "evidence_required": [
      "farmer-cooperative-membership",
      "polygon-mapped-farm-coordinates",
      "deforestation-cutoff-2020-12-31",
      "child-labour-attestation"
    ],
    "regimes": [
      "COCOBOD-2024",
      "EU-CSDDD-2027",
      "EU-EUDR-2025"
    ]
  },
  "organization": {
    "formality": "formal",
    "industry": "Cocoa Production & Export",
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "name": "Ghana Cocoa Sector (draft)",
    "regulators": [
      "COCOBOD",
      "Ministry of Finance Ghana",
      "Bank of Ghana"
    ],
    "size": "ecosystem",
    "voice": "Authoritative, regulator-aligned, technically precise"
  },
  "terminology": {
    "banned": [
      "blockchain",
      "Web3",
      "crypto",
      "decentralized",
      "tokenize",
      "NFT"
    ],
    "glossary": {
      "Akuafo cheque": "Payment instrument issued to farmers at the buying centre",
      "CMC": "Cocoa Marketing Company — COCOBOD subsidiary that conducts external sales",
      "COCOBOD": "Ghana Cocoa Board — statutory marketing board with sole external sales authority",
      "LBC": "Licensed Buying Company — only LBCs may purchase cocoa from farmers under COCOBOD licence",
      "PBC": "Produce Buying Company — historic state LBC, now competing with private LBCs",
      "QCD": "Quality Control Division (of COCOBOD) — performs cocoa grading and quality certification",
      "evacuation": "Movement of graded cocoa from depot to port for export",
      "farm-gate price": "Producer price set annually by Producer Price Review Committee",
      "stripping price": "Final settlement price after grading; differs from farm-gate price"
    },
    "preferred": {
      "Cocoa Marketing Company": [
        "CMC"
      ],
      "Quality Control Division": [
        "QCD"
      ],
      "farm gate price": [
        "producer price",
        "first-payment price"
      ],
      "graded": [
        "sorted",
        "classified"
      ],
      "licensed buying company": [
        "LBC",
        "buyer",
        "trader"
      ],
      "purchasing clerk": [
        "clerk",
        "buying agent"
      ],
      "warehouse receipt": [
        "WR",
        "delivery slip"
      ]
    }
  },
  "version": "0.9.0"
}