Organic Standards and Certification

Organic certification was first instituted in the 1970's by the same regional organic farming groups that first developed organic standards. In the early years, the farmers inspected one another on a voluntary basis, according to quite a general set of standards. Today third-party certification is a much more complex and formal process. Although certification started as a voluntary activity, the market began to demand it for sales transactions, and now it is required by the regulations of many governments for any kind of an "organic" claim on a product label.

ORGANIC CERTIFICATION
Purposes of organic certification: as evidence of an organic products as marketing instrument in premium markets is needed if organic products are traded world wide as a standard that constantly reviewed getting higher selling prices open a new market useless for personal consumption avoid consumers from abuse in the growing and lucrative market

Certification is expensive and bureaucratic !!

KINDS OF CERTIFICATION
1. International standard IFOAM Basic Standard: How organic products are grown, produced, processed and handled. The Codex Alimentarius: A joint FAO/WHO food standard program as a guideline for production, processing, labeling and marketing of organic products. Codex are in line with IFOAM basic standard & EU 2. National Standard Guideline for production, processing and import of organic products including inspection procedure, labeling, marketing for the whole Europe EU Regulation 2092/91 for crop in 1993 EU Regulation 1804/99 for livestock in 2000

 EU regulation is fully implemented in 28 European countries, 7 in Asian and Pasific regions, 3 in America and Caribbean, 1 in Africa and middle east.
Indonesia is in the process of drafting regulations

International certification is higher than

National certification

Internal Control Systems (ICSs) for Group Certification

Definition and principles An Internal Control System (ICS) is the part of a documented quality assurance system that allows an external certification body to delegate the periodical inspection of individual group members to an identified body or unit within the certified operator. This means that the third party certification bodies only have to inspect the wellfunctioning of the system, as well as to perform a few spot-check re-inspections of individual smallholders.

Historical background and current status

Smallholder groups have been certified on the basis of ICSs for many years. Since the mid 80s, even before

public regulations on organic agriculture where developed, private certification bodies developed group certification systems in order to facilitate the certification of smallholder farmers in developing countries. Over the last decade however, private requirements regarding group certification / ICSs have differed considerably between different certifiers.

Ways imported goods to the EU

Access via the list of third countries: Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Czech, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand and Switzerland. Access via import permit

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CERTIFICATION CONDITION
Conversion from conventional to organic minimum two years. If they wish to produce both conventional and organic produce, the operation should be separated. All farms are subjects to inspections by inspection bodies or other authorities. Organic label can not be used for non organic products and products that contain GMOs. After conversion annual inspections

INSPECTIONS
Inspection of documentation over purchases and sales, livestock and medication log books etc Possible taking of samples Inspection of in and outdoor livestock conditions Inspection of warehouses, fields, orchards, greenhouses and pastures Additional inspections and on the spot If the operators not complying with all requirements, their organic certification can be withdrawn.

Certification for Organic Farming

Procedures:
1.Initially, a farm is inspected and a report is lodged with the certification review committee (CRC).If CRC recommends the farm enter the certification system , it will be placed "Under Supervision" for the first 12 months. During this time, produce or products cannot be sold as 'Certified Organic" or as 'IN CONVERSION TO Organic". 2.After 12 months , the farm may be upgraded to "In Conversion" if the second inspection is satisfactory. The farm must then complete two years "In Conversion" before it is considered for certifying as "Organic"(otherwise known as "A GRADE Organic")

3.The "In conversion period may be reduced - but only where it can be demonstrated a farm during the years immediately preceding conversion used techniques closely allied to those of organic agriculture and which meet all testing and inspection requirements. Whatever the length of the conversion period, product may not be sold as "In conversion to Organic" until a farm has been under an inspection system for 12 months. 4.In the case of other farm activities not being certified , those activities must be clearly separated and the products must be of a different nature from the certified produces or products. There can not be organic and non -organic growing (parallel production) of the same species on the same property-or on any other property under the same grower's management or control. 5.When a defined area is certified , the remainder of the farm must be converted to organic within 10 years.

CERTIFICATION IN INDONESIA
Departemen Pertanian : Indonesian organic standard SNI 01-6729-2002. Organic process: all process from land preparation post harvest should follow organic method, not shown from product already produced. SNI was design based on the Guidelines for the production, processing, labeling and marketing of organically produced foods and has been modified in accordance with Indonesian condition

Discussion materials
The benefit to be organic farmer The development of organic farming in Indonesia is slow