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Approved Certification Bodies

All Certification Bodies that have received full ISO Guide 65 (EN 45011) accreditation to the scope of EUREPGAP "Integrated Aquaculture Assurance" and are fully approved to carry out EUREPGAP Certification to that scope are listed in TABLE 1 (with headquarter in Country) and TABLE 2 (with local office in Country - will only be displayed when region and country are selected).
Only these Accredited Certifiers are allowed to use the EUREPGAP Logo on their certificates and promotion material and will allow growers to do the same according to their certification agreement. Click on the certifier's name and get more details (Contacts in countries they operate).
Those certifiers that are in the application phase and have been given a several-month provisional approval, are listed in TABLE 3.

Interested farms and organisations should contact EurepGAP certification bodies with local or nearby offices operating in the Fruit and Vegetable or IFA section of EurepGAP and ask them to extend their competency to Aquaculture.

The relevant certifiers can apply for that extension in the EurepGAP CB-ExtraNet, where the procedure is now available.

Table 1 Accredited CBs with headquarter in Country

Organisation	Head Quarter	Contracts received	Accredited  EN 45011 / ISO 65 scope EUREPGAP	Comments
Bureau Veritas Certification S.A.U. (Spain)	Spain	January 2007	June 2008
Food Certification International	United Kingdom	March 2005	January 2008
Inspectorate de Argentina S.A.	Argentina	December 2005	March 2006
LSQA (LATU Sistemas S.A.)	Uruguay	June 2005	December 2006
Nemko AS	Norway	July 2005	September 2006
SGS Australia PTY LTD	Australia	October 2005	January 2007

*Accreditation issued by an AB that has signed the MLA within the ISO Guide 62 or Laboratory area and that is involved in the development of an IAF methodology and criteria for peer assessment on ISO Guide 65 (product Certification). The EUREPGAP TSC will accept accreditations issued by: ANSI, INMETRO (Brazil), JAS-ANZ (NZ/AUS), SANAS (RSA) and EMA (Mexico) until this MLA is in force and signed.

Table 3 Provisionally approved CBs (in process to receive accredition)

Organisation

Country of Head Quarter

Contracts received

Applied for Accreditation EN 45011/ISO 65 Scope EUREPGAP

Comments

Certification Bodies listed in TABLE 3 have signed a contract with the EUREPGAP Secretariat and are in the application process to receive accreditation from their responsible Accreditation Body. ALL CERTIFICATION BODIES LISTED IN TABLE 3 CAN ISSUE NON-ACCREDITED CERTIFICATES THAT ARE ACCEPTED BY EUREPGAP MEMBERS. Each applicant is given a period of six months to complete the required accreditation which includes the issuing of non-accredited certificates as practical excercise. Such non-accredited certificates are also accepted in the business-to-business communication. Only Accredited Certifiers will be able to use the EUREPGAP Logo on their certificates and promotion material. EUREPGAP has already de-listed Certification Bodies and will continue to do so to maintain the integrity of the system. Certifiers are encouraged to obtain the relevant accreditation as soon as possible and are not encouraged to issue too many non-accredited certificates, since in the case of a de-listing, i.e. failure of the accreditation procedure, the certificate owner, the grower or grower organisation, has to transfer his/her contract to another accredited certifier, who will need to undertake additional inspection and certification activities to hold up the validation of the grower's certification status.