GLOBALG.A.P. conducts regular workshops for GLOBALG.A.P. approved certification bodies (CBs), which are designed for auditors, inspectors, in-house trainers, and scheme managers who must fulfill certain qualification requirements.

Every GLOBALG.A.P. approved CB must appoint:

1. A scheme manager, who must attend an annual Scheme Managers Update Workshop.
2. An in-house trainer, who is responsible for training the CB’s auditors and inspectors. In-house trainers are scope-specific and must attend a face-to-face In-House Trainer Training, as well as pass an exam on the content of the entire standard. They are responsible for IFA – Integrated Farm Assurance, CoC – Chain of Custody, GRASP – Social Practice, etc., for every standard version.

If a CB’s scheme manager and/or in-house trainer do not comply with any of the GLOBALG.A.P. qualification requirements – including the training described above – the CB gets blocked in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database and cannot issue any certificates.

All GLOBALG.A.P. approved auditors and inspectors who are responsible for auditing the quality management systems (QMS) of producer groups and multisite producers must attend a face-to-face QMS Training and pass an exam on how to audit the GLOBALG.A.P. QMS. In addition, all GLOBALG.A.P. approved auditors and inspectors must pass an online exam on the content of the normative documents of the standards, scopes, and sub-scopes they are approved to audit, according to the standard version. Auditors or inspectors who do not pass the online exams for the scopes and sub-scopes they are registered for – or the QMS training in the case of auditors – are blocked in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database and cannot perform any audits/inspections.