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| Meinshausen, Florentine; Richter, Toralf; Blockeel, Johan; Huber, Beate. |
| About 80% of the world’s organic producers are smallholders in low and middle income countries, for whom individual certification would be unaffordable and administratively too complex to manage. These producers are recognised as organic due to group certification, a system in which groups of farmers implement an Internal Control System (ICS) and are certified by a third party certification body, which assesses the performance of the ICS and performs a representative number of spot-check inspections of group members. The approach of using ICS based group certification was pioneered by IFOAM – Organics International (IFOAM) and Fair Trade over the past twenty years has been adopted by the entire organic sector, including the EU and the US National Organic... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Regulation. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/35159/7/fibl-2019-ics.pdf |
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| Padel, Susanne; Vine, Jane; Huber, Beate; Stolze, Matthias; Jespersen, Lizzie Melby; Rüegg, Elisabeth; Meinshausen, Florentine; Puliga, Alessandro; Compagnioni, Antonio; Belliere, Samanta Rosie. |
| The report presents a review of the most important European and international legislation that set the framework for organic certification, of reports prepared by international agencies working with organic standard setting and certification, and of relevant scientific literature. It discusses problems, future challenges of the organic control systems in Europe leading to suggestions for improvement. Food quality assurance is of key importance for the future development of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU. A large number of mandatory and voluntary assurance and certification schemes exist for agriculture and in the food industry leading to the risk of increased costs for producers and confusion of consumers. Such schemes include the setting of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Regulation. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18359/1/padel%2Detal%2D2010%2Dcertcost.pdf |
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