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How to transfer BCCUs Content 1. What is the Better Cotton Platform (BCP)? 2. What are Better Cotton Claim Units (BCCUs)? 3. What is a Better Cotton Output Declaration Forms (ODFs)? 4. How to transfer BCCUs? 4.1. I’m a yarn spinner, what do I need to do? 4.2. I’m a fabric mill, what do I need to do? 4.3. I’m a garment manufacturer, what do I need to do? 4.4. I’m a vertically integrated mill (spins yarn and weaves fabrics) what do I need to do? Brands and retailers that support BCI encourage Better Cotton uptake throughout their supply chains. As part of this effort, brands and retailers require visibility of Better Cotton allocations completed in transactions between their suppliers through the Better Cotton Platform. Therefore, in order to track volumes of Better Cotton, suppliers are required to report the volume of Better Cotton they have sourced for their customer through the transfer of BCCUs. 1. What is Better Cotton Platform (BCP)? The BCP is an online system owned by the BCI, and used by ginners, traders, spinners, other textile value chain actors, and by retailers and brands to document their Better Cotton sourcing activities and sourced volumes. The BCP enables suppliers and manufacturers to report to their customers how much Better Cotton lint was sourced through the sale of a physical product and allows BCI to verify the volumes of Better Cotton each brand sources. As a result of this verification, brands can make credible claims about their Better Cotton uptake in their supply chains. 2. What are Better Cotton Claim Units (BCCUs)? A BCCU is a BCI-specific unit that measures the volumes of Better Cotton sourced by supply chain actors and retailers and brands. One BCCU represents one kilogram of physical Better Cotton lint sourced from a ‘BCI gin’. Ginners are required to physically segregate Better Cotton from conventional