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and their clients, based on independency, impartiality, confidentiality and integrity
principles. Also, all the CB staff involved in GLOBALGAP certification are listed
and evaluated against the GLOBALGAP auditor or inspector qualification criteria.
GLOBALGAP seeks to gain qualified input from national experts in their own
language with respect to interpretation of the standards as well as specific legal
requirements within the different food categories covered by GLOBALGAP. The
establishment of GLOBALGAP National Technical Work Groups is one important
step towards achieving this goal. These groups work in close cooperation with the
GLOBALGAP secretariat and the GLOBALGAP SCs and support and facilitate the
GLOBALGAP implementation and continuous standard improvement processes.
Compliance with GLOBALGAP standards consists of three types of con-
trol points (set out in the control points and compliance criteria documents
(http://www.globalgap.org/cms/front content.php?idcat=48) that the producer is
required to comply with in order to obtain GLOBALGAP certification:
major musts (mandatory 100% compliance);
minor musts (mandatory 95% compliance); and
recommendations (voluntary).
6.2.5 Accreditation of certification bodies
Certification bodies must apply to an accreditation body for accreditation to
EN45011 or ISO/IEC Guide 65 in the relevant GLOBALGAP area (crops, livestock
or aquaculture) or the relevant benchmarked scheme after signing the GLOBAL-
GAP Licence and Certification Agreement. The accreditation body to which the CB
applies must be a signatory to the multilateral agreement on product certification
and must:
either be part of the European Co-operation for Accreditation; or
be a member of the International Accreditation Forum which has been subject
to a peer evaluation in the product certification field with a positive recommen-
dation in its report; and
have signed the memorandum of understanding with FoodPLUS GmbH within
either European Co-operation for Accreditation or International Accreditation
Forum.
The national ABs assessing and granting accreditation to CBs for GLOBALGAP
certification follow ISO/IEC 17011 which is an international standard defining 'gen-
eral requirements for ABs accrediting conformity assessment bodies'. Only after
the CB has been accredited to EN45011 or ISO/IEC Guide 65 for the applica-
ble GLOBALGAP area, the CB is entitled to print the GLOBALGAP logo (see
Chapter 1) on the certificate as proof of successful approval of their certification
practices.
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