GLOBALG.A.P. CHAIN OF CUSTODY

WHAT IS THAT

GLOBALG.A.P. owns several standards directly attributable to primary agricultural production .

Until the introduction of Version 4 , access to GLOBALG.A.P. certification was only allowed to those organizations (farms, consortia, OPs, etc.) that had direct control over the agricultural production of the products to be certified.

Certification is required by large-scale retail trade , especially foreign ones, and the complexity of the supply chain generates a sort of gap between those who produce certified products and those who actually request certification.



Thanks to the GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody (CoC) standard, all intermediate subjects in the supply chain can :

• be registered in the GLOBALG.A.P. database by receiving their own identification code (GGN);
• obtain a GLOBALG.A.P. certification to guarantee GLOBALG.A.P. origin on the product supplied to customers.

GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody certification can be requested by all companies that buy certified products and need to sell them as such to their customers.

The certification can be requested by all organizations that deal with:

• logistics,
• processing
• storage
• labeling

of GLOBALG.A.P. certified products

KEY POINTS

The requirements cover aspects such as:

• traceability,
• GLOBALG.A.P. product identification and separation,
• labelling,
• records and mass balance .

There are also certain minimum quality system requirements (internal audits, complaints, management of non-conformities, etc.).

REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATION AND/OR RENEWAL

the following questionnaire   must be completed and sent by e-mail to csqa@csqa.it :

• the request for initial certification
• the request for annual renewal of the certificate

GLOBALG.A.P. FEE

GLOBALG.A.P. has published the new fee " GLOBALG.A.P. Fee Table ":

• "GLOBALG.A.P. Fee Table" for all Countries
• "GLOBALG.A.P. Fee Table" for North America (USA and Canada)

The fee defines the taxes that GLOBALG.A.P. , through CSQA, applies to companies requesting certification.

SUBLICENSE AGREEMENT

Sublicense agreement for all Countries
Sublicense agreement for North America (USA and Canada)