Company type and options
The different combination of company type and options allow to certify products in numerous constellations.
The company type categorizes the legal entity: there can be only a
- producer: a legal entity cultivating the product as a single supplier
or a
- producer group: a cooperative (a PMO) contracting single producers, who cultivate the product and supply the group
The options describe who owns and sells which product.
- Option 1 GLOBALG.A.P. scheme standard and AMC (Approved Modified Checklists)
- Option 3 Fully benchmarked schemes
If the single producer owns and sells the product directly to the market, then its own products are certified as option 1 or 3. The same applies for producer groups: If the group cultivates and sells its own product - a different one than the product of the cooperative - , this product is certified as option 1 or 3.
- Option 2 GLOBALG.A.P. scheme standard and AMC (Approved Modified Checklists)
- Option 4 Fully benchmarked schemes
If the single producer cultivates the product, but then sells it to the group who then markets the product, the products of this single producer are registered and accepted as option 2 or 4, also the same product of the group is then certified as option 2 or 4.
