Integrity Report 2022

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GLOBALG.A.P. APPROVED CERTIFICATION BODIES

Quality and integrity of the highest level

Certification body approval

Certification bodies (CBs) that want to become GLOBALG.A.P. approved must be ISO/IEC 17065–accredited for the relevant standard (such as the Integrated Farm Assurance standard (IFA)), the scope (e.g., plants, aquaculture), and the product category (e.g., fruit and vegetables).

This must be achieved through an accreditation body which is a member of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and signatory of the Multilateral Recognition Arrangement on Product Certification. All of these accreditation bodies have been subject to a peer evaluation in the product certification field and have received a positive recommendation in the resulting report.

The GLOBALG.A.P. Secretariat signs license and certification agreements with only those CBs that successfully pass the GLOBALG.A.P. internal approval process. The agreements and the accreditation ensure a high level of standardized quality and integrity of CBs’ procedures.

GLOBALG.A.P. approved CBs worldwide by the end of 2022

Some CBs have been approved for more than one standard and scope.

compared to 2021
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Product name Product type 2021 number of approved CBs 2022 number of approved CBs Growth
IFA for crops Standard 152 145 -4%
IFA GFS for crops Standard - 88 -
IFA for aquaculture Standard 19 24 +26%
IFA GFS for aqualculture Standard - 14 -
IFA for livestock Standard 20 17 -15%
GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard 90 95 +5%
Compound Feed Manufacturing (CFM) Standard 20 20 -
GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP) Add-on 143 147 +2.8%
AH-DLL GROW Add-on 60 66 +10%
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (PSR) Add-on 39 43 +10%
Harmonized Produce Safety Standard (HPSS) Standard 8 8 -
Impact-Driven Approach to Sustainability (IDA) Add-on 6 7 +16%
Livestock Transport Standard 3 2 -33%
localg.a.p. Customized programs 6 6 -
Nurture Module Add-on 51 50 -2%
NON-GM/“Ohne Gentechnik” Module 1 (compound feed mills) Add-on 7 8 +14%
NON-GM/“Ohne Gentechnik” Module 2 (livestock/aquaculture) Add-on 5 5 -
NON-GM/“Ohne Gentechnik” Module 3 (processing companies) Add-on 5 5 -
Primary Farm Assurance (PFA) Standard 9 9 -
Produce Handling Assurance (PHA) Standard 6 6 -
Produce Safety Assurance (PSA) Standard 4 3 -25%
Sustainable Program for Irrigation and Groundwater Use (SPRING) Add-on 44 66 +50%
TR4 Biosecurity Add-on for Bananas Add-on 19 20 +5%

Key performance indicators for CBs

In 2017, a series of key performance indicators (KPIs) was developed to measure the performance of CBs and present the information to the public. The KPIs were developed together with the CBs and include scores on integrity assessments, complaint management, database management, and administrative issues.

The KPIs are published on the GLOBALG.A.P. website and are updated every six months. These criteria are reflected in a five-star rating system, with one star for poorest performance and five stars for best performance.

Headquarter locations of GLOBALG.A.P. approved CBs

There were 190 approved CBs worldwide by the end of 2022. Their headquarter locations are shown on the map. Please note that CBs may also operate internationally outside the country in which their headquarters are located.

Hover over a highlighted country to see the number of CB headquarters located there.

TRAINING FOR CbS

Maintaining excellence

GLOBALG.A.P. conducts regular workshops for GLOBALG.A.P. approved CBs. These 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 manager update training.
  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 an in-house trainer training, as well as pass a test on the content of the standard for every standard version.

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

All GLOBALG.A.P. approved auditors and inspectors responsible for auditing the quality management systems (QMSs) of producer groups and multisite producers must attend a QMS auditor training and pass a test on how to audit the QMS.

In addition, all GLOBALG.A.P. approved auditors and inspectors must pass an online test on the content of the normative documents of the standards, scopes, and product categories that they are approved to audit according to the latest standard version. Auditors or inspectors who do not pass the online tests for the scopes and product categories they are registered for – or the QMS training in the case of auditors – are blocked in the GLOBALG.A.P. database and cannot perform audits/inspections.

Online tests

GLOBALG.A.P. online tests are available in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Online test Number of auditors and inspectors
AH Beter voor Natuur & Boer v1.1 30
AH-DLL GROW v3.0 440
BioDiversity v1 90
FSMA PSR v1.3 450
CoC v6.1 868
Raised Without Antibiotics v1 5
CFM v3 38
IFA v5.2 2,477
IFA v5.4-1-GFS 1,325
NON-GM/”Ohne Gentechnik” v1.1 48
GLOBALG.A.P. PLUS v1.1 233
GRASP v1.3-1-i 1,986
HPSS v1.1 44
Nurture Module v1.4 389
PHA v1.2 15
SRP v1 29
SPRING v1.1 583
TR4 Biosecurity v1 160

GLOBALG.A.P. trainings completed in 2022

trainings
0
participants
0

Training locations and languages

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All trainings were held online. 

Training participants according to language and type

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In-house trainer training

This program qualifies auditors and inspectors working for GLOBALG.A.P. approved CBs to become in-house trainers. In 2022, 58 in-house trainer trainings took place. All were conducted online.

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CB in-house trainer trainings by scope/topic

Date Scope Language Participants
NA* IDA English 17
January IFA v5 aquaculture English 5
  CfP with GRASP English 13
  SPRING English 9
  IFA  v5.4-GFS  (update crops and aquaculture) Spanish 14
  IFA v5.4-GFS (update crops and aquaculture) English 17
  GRASP v1.3-1-i Spanish 11
February CFM v3 English 10
  AH-DLL GROW Add-on v3 English 5
March AH Beter Voor English 14
  CoC v6 Spanish 12
  BioDiversity English 9
  IFA v5.4-GFS  (update crops and aquaculture) Spanish 11
  IFA v5.4-GFS  (update crops and aquaculture) English 14
April CFM v3 English 12
  IFA v5 crops Spanish 7
  SPRING English 5
  BioDiversity English 9
  IFA v5.4-GFS  (update crops and aquaculture) Spanish 8
May CfP with GRASP English 4
  SPRING Spanish 9
  CoC v6 English 10
  BioDiversity English 5
  IFA v6 plants English 13
June BioDiversity English 10
  IFA v6 plants English 12
July IFA v6 plants English 9
  IFA v6 plants English 8
August IFA v6 plants English 15
  IFA v6 aquaculture English 9
  IFA v6 plants English 8
  IFA v6 plants English 12
  GROW v3.0 English 6
September SPRING English 11
  GRASP v2 English 14
  IFA v6 plants Spanish 15
  GRASP v2 English 12
October CoC v6 English 6
  FSMA PSR v1.3 English 10
  FSMA PSR v1.3 Spanish 15
  FSMA PSR v1.3 Spanish 14
  IFA v6 plants Spanish 10
  GRASP v2 English 12
November IFA v6 plants English 14
  FSMA PSR v1.3 Spanish 5
  GRASP v2 English 4
  IFA v6 aquaculture English 10
December GRASP v2 English 8
  IFA v6 plants Spanish 11
  GRASP v1.3-1-i English 9
  Nurture v11.4 update English 6
  Nurture v11.4 update English 10
  Nurture v11.4 update English 11
  Nurture English 15
  Nurture v11.4 update English 14
  Nurture v11.4 update English 4
  Nurture v11.4 update English 3
  GRASP v2 English 10

*The IDA training was not held live. It was added to the course catalogue in January 2022 and made available for CBs to book and watch independently at any time. A total of 17 participants booked the course in 2022, and it remains available online.

Scheme manager update training

This training focuses on CB operational issues and updates for scheme managers and also provides an opportunity to clarify technical questions. It is neither scope nor standardspecific. In 2021, 14 scheme manager update trainings took place. All were conducted online.

Date Scope Language Participants
May Scheme Manager Update Training English 13
  Scheme Manager Update Training English 12
June Scheme Manager Update Training English 13
  Scheme Manager Update Training English 13
July Scheme Manager Update Training Spanish 12
August Scheme Manager Update Training English 10
September Scheme Manager Update Training English 8
  Scheme Manager Update Training Italian 8
October Scheme Manager Update Training Spanish 16
  Scheme Manager Update Training Spanish 9
November Scheme Manager Update Training English 16
  Scheme Manager Update Training English 21
December Scheme Manager Update Training English 19

CB QMS Auditor training for group certification

This program trains auditors of GLOBALG.A.P. approved certification bodies to audit the Quality Management System of producer groups.

Date Scope Language Participants
February QMS Auditor Training v5 Italian 10
March QMS Auditor Training v5 English 20
  QMS Auditor Training  v5 Spanish 9
May QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 11
  Full QMS Auditor Training v6 English 12
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 11
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 15
June QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 8
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 4
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 11
July QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 7
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 4
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 5
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 7
August QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 4
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 English 6
  QMS Auditor Training v6 English 6
September QMS Auditor Training v6 English 15
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 Spanish 10
  QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 7
  QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 12
  QMS Auditor Training v6 Spanish 2
October QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 12
  QMS Update Training v6 English 5
  Full QMS Auditor Training v6 Spanish 7
November QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 11
  Full QMS Auditor Training v6 English 14
  QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 15
  QMS Update Training v6 English 8
  Full QMS Auditor Training v6 Spanish 12
  QMS Update Training v6 Spanish 4
  QMS Update Training v6 English 5
December QMS Update Training v6 English 8
  QMS Auditor Update Training v6 Spanish 5

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