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In 2002 (Cape Town, South Africa), the first regional GLOBALGAP conference
outside of Europe combined with the first train-the-trainer seminar in Africa took
place.
In 2003 (Madrid, Spain), GLOBALGAP presented version 2 of the fruit and
vegetable protocol as the result of the revision process, proclaimed the start of
the Flowers and Ornamentals protocol, and opened a new, transparent standard
equivalence benchmarking procedure.
In 2004 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the GLOBALGAP standards for coffee
and aquaculture were launched and the first certificates were issued to farms
based on the integrated farm assurance standard. During the same year, the first
GLOBALGAP Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) was sponsored by
the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries of Malaysia and triggered
the first GLOBALGAP certification of an oil palm plantation.
In 2005 (Paris, France), the first GLOBALGAP compound animal feed reference
standard was published and a new version of the integrated farm assurance was
launched.
In 2006 (Prague, Czech Republic), the global GLOBALGAP event for standard
revision and implementation took place.
In 2007, GLOBALGAP launched the third version of its good agricultural
practice standard. More than 500 experts ranging from producers, traders,
retailers, governmental and non-governmental organisations from 56 coun-
tries have provided proposals, comments and suggestions during an inten-
sive 2-year stakeholder discussion period resulting in the latest standards
(http://www.globalgap.org/cms/front content.php?idcat=48).
Currently, 38 retailers and food service companies are members of GLOBAL-
GAP. Retailers worldwide use GLOBALGAP in their supply chains to obtain as-
surance of, for example, food safety and traceability of products to the farm level.
A professional, closely associated network of more than 119 certification bodies
that have been accredited to an international standard (ISO Guide 65) has been
developed. The building of this certification capacity has helped the spread of certi-
fied producers in more than 80 countries worldwide, including small-scale farmers
in developing countries. GLOBALGAP has also developed some strong relations
with stakeholders outside the immediate sphere of the industry including NGOs,
government organisations and intergovernmental organisations.
6.2.1 Governance
Governance of the GLOBALGAP organisation is controlled through the GLOB-
ALGAP Board, which in turn is elected by the retailer and supplier members and
is chaired by an independent chairman (Figure 6.2). The executive management of
the GLOBALGAP secretariat, its managing director, represents GLOBALGAP on
the Board. The Board agrees on the vision and short- and long-term strategy and
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