Guarantee systems

Ensuring smallholder access to organic guarantee systems... 

Bowen, D. 2002. International harmonisation of organic standards and guarantee systems. In OECD Workshop on Organic Agriculture. OECD, Washington, DC. 

IFOAM World Board 2005. International Organic Quality System. Proposal for Revising the IFOAM Organic Guarantee System. International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Bonn. 

Commins, K. and Kung Wai, O. 2003. Regulations of imports into major markets. In Westermayer, C. and Geier, B (eds.) The Organic Guarantee System - The Need and Strategy for Harmonisation and Equivalence. IFOAM/ FAO/ UNCTAD, Bonn. pp. 112-117. 

INTERNATIONAL HARMONISATION OF ORGANIC STANDARDS AND GUARANTEE SYSTEMS... 

Craeifix, David, Report of the IFOAM Conferenee on Organic Guarantee Systems, 2002, IFOAM, Tholey-Theley, Germany. 

Representatives of IFOAM and the conference co-sponsors, the FAO and UNCTAD, are organising to carry forward the results of this conference into further avenues for harmonising organic guarantee systems. 

IFOAM (2002), IFOAM Conference on Organic Guarantee Systems Reader, Tholey-Theley, Germany www.ifoam.org. 

Following the completion of the first draft design of the planned installation, the necessary requirements derived from experience must be established. Applicable laws and technical rules must be observed. In the event that requirements based on experience cannot adequately guarantee system safety, special attention must be devoted to failure effect on the environment. Qualitative analysts will be continued step by step until unequivocal assessment is possible. In the event that qualitative analysis does not furnish a clear statement concerning system safety, and if the expected danger for the environment due to the behavior of the system under consideration requires it, quantitative analysis should follow qualitative analysis. As a rule, quantitative analysis concerns only particularly critical subsystems indicated in the scope of qualitative analysis. 

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