Public consultation for IFA v6 and GRASP v2 closed in November 2021.
In December 2021, the GLOBALG.A.P. Advisory Board approved the new IFA standard documents for the aquaculture scope and for the product categories fruit and vegetables, flowers and ornamentals, and hops in the plants scope. The documents for the GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP add-on v2) were also approved.
After two years of consultations and collaborations, the new IFA standard v6 and GRASP add-on v2 officially launched on 26 April 2022. To learn more about the new standard and what it means for you, see the IFA v6 page.
We would like to express our thanks to everyone who participated in the public consultation process.
Public consultation in numbers
- Four public consultation rounds took place between May 2020 and November 2021.
- We received over 4,000 comments on IFA and 300 on GRASP.
- We hosted 120 World Consultation Tour webinars with 695 participants.
- Webinars took place in 15 languages across 20 time zones.
- Field trials for IFA v6 were completed in seven different countries.
Transparent answers to your comments
We want to be as transparent as possible about the topics you raised in all four public consultation rounds. That’s why we have now published a public comments summary document for the scopes/product categories of aquaculture, fruit and vegetables, and flowers and ornamentals.
Each document summarizes the key topics and a response from GLOBALG.A.P. Find them in the “ Documents for download” section on the right-hand side.