Producer status

Producer status is specified as not confirmed or registered, which can only be set by the Trustee/Farm Assurer (role TusteeMasterdata) and CB/PG Accepted or cancelled, which are linked with the certification bodies’ decision (role CB-Committee). The following chart highlights the status flow of the producer status options.

As you see in the figure above the Trustee/Farm Assurer is mainly working on registration and de-registration of producers. Only the certification body is allowed to change the product status to accepted, which is the trigger of the registration fee. As soon as the first product is accepted or reaccepted, the registration fee must be collected by the Trustee/Farm Assurer. Consider that certification bodies are normally having both roles: Trustee/Farm Assurer (database role TrusteeMasterdata) and certification body (database role CB-Committee).

Not confirmed

Producer status not confirmed is set by online notification of companies in the database. There is already a link with the Trustee/Farm Assurer via RF-Key, but the Trustee/Farm Assurer has not confirmed this link yet. Please, consider that this status must be set to registered in order to continue the certification process. The main purpose of this producer status is to give producers or producer groups the opportunity to register themselves. If further actions do not follow, this status automatically ends after 12 months and the producer is set to the status annulled (there is no link with the Trustee/Farm Assurer anymore). To link in an annulled producer or producer group into the system to a Trustee/Farm Assurer, this company must be notified again.

Registered

The producer status “Registered” is the confirmed notification of a producer in the database. This status is set by a Trustee/Farm Assurer, who will be invoiced the registration fee by FoodPLUS after the product acceptance. If the producer or producer group do not continue with certification (for any reason), the GGN stays registered. A Trustee/Farm Assurer must de-register the GGN manually, consequently the GGN is annulled. However, any other Trustee/Farm Assurer can register the producer or producer group in the database.

Annulled

If the GGN of a producer or producer group is annulled, there is no link with the Trustee/Farm Assurer anymore. This company is now free to register by a new Trustee/Farm Assurer as described above in 5.1.1. and 5.1.2.

CB/PG Accepted

The producer status CB/PG Accepted is automatically set upon first product acceptance by a certification body and triggers a product cycle. If the product of this producer is not reaccepted and the product cycle has run out, the producer status changes to registered.

The product cycle starts on the date of acceptance and is valid for 12 months, but can be extended up to a maximum of 24 months, if the certification is done on the last day of this product cycle. The product cycle will be 24 months minus 1 day long. Reacceptance is possible earliest 6 months after certificate cycle started.