Certipaq

CERTIPAQ is a Certification body and of Contrôle Independent specialized in certification of agricultural produce and agroalimentary.

Tool for certification set up by the professionals (gathering ODG producing, stockbreeders, craftsmen, transformers, etc…), CERTIPAQ is charged to ensure the control and the certification of the farms, companies artisanal or industrial committed in the steps under official of quality, origin or dynamic and individual signs.

Organization

The activity of certification of an organization such as CERTIPAQ is governed by an approval, delivered by the INAO and an accreditation, delivered by the COFRAC , since September 1997, under the respect of Standard NF INTO 45011 (Accreditation N° 07-0010).

CERTIPAQ to date has the most complete range of approvals in France. CERTIPAQ is, for its field of competence and the accreditation which was granted to him, the guarantor of its independence, its competence, the transparency of its activities and its impartiality. With this intention, CERTIPAQ ensures a balanced representation of the interests of all those which engage in a policy of quality and origin.

Organization of notoriety in the field of the agricultural and agroalimentary recognition, CERTIPAQ is before a a whole company with human dimension which knew to adapt its operation and to optimize its organization in order to have the best reactivity and the most adapted answers, whatever the branch of industry, the size of the company and its geographical site.

Activities

  • Red Label (LR);

  • Name of Protected Controlled origin/(AOC /AOP);
  • Protected Geographical ascription (IGP);
  • Traditional Speciality Guarantee (STG);
  • Certification of Conformity Produced (CPC);
  • International Standard Food (YEWS);
  • GLOBALGAP (in the past EurepGAP);
  • Reasoned Agriculture (AR);
  • Independent Control (Third Control, External Control);
  • Professional training

History

1997:

  • Parliament Constitutive of CERTIPAQ (February 21st)
  • Obtaining Approval 06 for the Red Label and Approval DC 14 for the Certification of Conformity Produced.
  • Obtaining the Accreditation n°7-0010 relating to standard 45011. (Accreditation delivered by the COFRAC )

1999:

  • Adhesion of CERTIPAQ to the CEPRAL, holder of the logo “Asset Quality Certified”.
  • Extension of Accreditation for the certification of the mode of production Organic farming (December 1st)

2000:

2001:

  • Renewal of Approval for the three Official Signs of Quality

2004:

  • Obtaining the extension of accreditation for the qualification to the title of the Reasoned Agriculture (May 10th).
  • Approval obtained on March 30th.
  • Obtaining the Accreditation for certification EurepGap (July 11th)
  • Stop of the certification of the mode of production Organic farming (September 1st)

2005:

  • Obtaining the Accreditation for certification YEWS (July 1st)

2006:

  • Adoption of the new Law of Agricultural orientation (n° 2006-11 of January 5th, 2006), comprising, in particular, the Ordinance “Quality” (article 73) constituting a strategic direction aiming at proceeding to a reorganization of great width of the French device of valorization of the agricultural produce and agroalimentary.

2007:

  • Installation of the new INAO, National institute of the Origin and Quality (January 1st)
  • 10 years of CERTIPAQ

References

See Too

External bonds

  • the Web site of www.certipaq.com

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