What is BIIBAS?

BII Benchmarking and Accreditation Services Ltd (BIIBAS) is a not-for-profit company and a wholly owned subsidiary of BII, the professional body for the licensed retail sector.

The licensed retail sector has long felt that the future of the industry would be better served if both parties who enter into a lease or tenancy agreement were to have a clear understanding of the business relationship to which they are signing.

BIIBAS runs the Scheme under which pub operating companies can apply to have their codes of practice accredited as a clear and transparent declaration of the business relationship being offered between the landlord and lessee/tenant and also benchmarked against the criteria established by the current BBPA Code of Practice

BIIBAS is made up as follows:

• The Steering Committee which determines the Criteria against which codes of practice are benchmarked
• The Benchmarking Committee which reviews codes of practice alongside the Criteria and, where appropriate, awards Benchmarked Status
• A Scheme Secretariat which is the Scheme's permanent administrative body

Any pub operating company wishing to have its code of practice benchmarked in accordance with the Rules may make an application to BIIBAS.  Where the code of practice is subsequently reviewed and found to meet the minimum standard required by the Criteria, the pub operating company may be awarded Benchmarked Status for its code of practice.

Continued Benchmarked Status will depend on continued compliance with these Rules.