Foodplus GmbH - GLOBALGAP REVISION – V4.0- Effective 2011

Store this angel in big sizeCologne, 30th May 2008 - The GLOBALGAP Board has afresh accustomed a angle that the accepted shall be revised every 4 years, instead of every 3 years – a accommodation accustomed by all stakeholders to acquiesce acceptable time for acclimation and accomplishing amid new versions.

Even admitting the GLOBALGAP Integrated Farm Assurance V3.0 has alone become binding on 1st January 2008, the assorted area committees accept already started with the astronomic assignment of alteration the standard. It was agreed in all Sector Committees that there should not be axiological changes in access but to abide to advance the accepted from applied acquaintance acquired in accomplishing and reflect improvements in best practice.

Some of the capacity that are beneath altercation in assorted subgroups and Sector Committees, include:

•Standard Efficiency (streamlining the standard, abstain duplication and ambiguity)
•Standard Integrity (General Regulations)
•Resource Management (soil, water, activity and nitrogen levels)
•Improvement of the Integrated Pest Management guideline and acquiescence with microbiological issues are apparent as acute credibility for the Crops sector.
•Requirements for Animal welfare, Feed and Transport are important capacity discussed at the Livestock and Aquaculture Sector Committees.

The afterlight will chase the afresh revised accepted ambience action to crop into anniversary best convenance in accepted ambience decidedly acceptance for assorted opportunities for stakeholder captivation and consultation. The agenda for afterlight and advance can be apparent in the diagram.

Claudia Meifert

public relations & website administration
GLOBALGAP c/o FoodPLUS GmbH,
Spichernstr. 55, 50672 Koeln, Germany
Koeln HRB 35211, Managing Director Dr. Kristian Moeller
Tel: +49 (0) 2 21-5 79 93-82; Fax: -89
www.globalgap.org - mailto:meifert(at)globalgap.org

The claiming of globalising markets is boilerplate greater than in the primary aliment sector. GLOBALGAP (formerly accepted as EUREPGAP) has accustomed itself as a key advertence for Good Agricultural Practices (G.A.P.) in the all-around market-place, by advice chump requirements into agronomical assembly in a rapidly growing account of countries – currently added than 80 on every continent.

GLOBALGAP is a clandestine area anatomy that sets autonomous standards for the acceptance of agronomical articles about the globe. The aim is to authorize ONE accepted for Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) with altered artefact applications able of applicable to the accomplished of all-around agriculture.

GLOBALGAP is a pre-farm-gate standard, which agency that the affidavit covers the action of the certified artefact from acreage inputs like augment or seedlings and all the agriculture activities until the artefact leaves the farm. GLOBALGAP is a business-to-business characterization and is accordingly not anon arresting to consumers.

GLOBALGAP acceptance is agitated out by added than 100 absolute and accepted acceptance bodies in added than 80 countries. It is accessible to all producers worldwide.