GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practise - GRASP

Introduction

The GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP) is a voluntary assessment that can be conducted at the same time as a GLOBALG.A.P. audit.

Its main objective is to raise awareness on social practice in primary production. The outcome of the assessment doesn’t affect the GLOBALG.A.P. certification, but serves as additional information to supply chain partners.

Preconditions

• GRASP is only available for countries, where a GRASP National Interpretation Guideline was developed. This means that GRASP can be added as a product only for producers that are registered in countries with a GRASP National Interpretation Guideline. The list of available countries, the guidelines, other GRASP documents including GRASP Control Points and Compliance Criteria, Checklists and Implementation Guidelines can be found on the GLOBALG.A.P. homepage, GRASP Standard.

• GRASP assessments can only be performed by approved GLOBALG.A.P. auditors/inspectors. The GRASP online training is available in the CB-extranet.

Please, note: Has any auditor/inspector completed the GRASP online test successfully, the CB-administration team has to be notified so the the Certification Body can be unlocked for GRASP in the database and they can plan, download and upload checklists. The GLOBALG.A.P. Secretariat will constantly monitor the formal qualification status of the auditors that have GRASP as scope.

GRASP access rights

Results of the GRASP assessment and the address data of the assessed producer will be visible by default to market participants, who have signed the terms of reference for the use of GRASP assessment results (See GRASP General Regulations V 1.1, Annex II.-III.). GRASP results will only be displayed, if the producer/producer group has a valid GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance certificate.

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First steps in the database

As the four-eye-principle is not a requirement for the GRASP assessment, the CB-Auditor/CB-Inspector can also plan the assessment - however only if they have also the CB-Committee role for GRASP. The CB-Executive can assign GRASP as a new scope to the CB-Auditor/CB-Inspector with the required qualification as described in Masterdata.