New to Processed Products?
Are you wondering if you are ready to start the process of organic certification for your product?
It helps us meet your timeframe expectations if you have all the necessary documents and evidence required.
To make it easy, please indicate if you have the following documents ready. It doesn't matter if you don't have all of these pieces yet, but you will need to start thinking about them if you're keen to proceed.
Once you have completed your application and paid your initial invoice, our friendly team can assist you with queries specific to your business and products.
The timeframe to get through this process is highly dependent on the availability of this evidence and completion of your Organic Management Plan, allowing our assessors to review your systems and progress your application to audit stage and full organic certification.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AFFECTING ORGANIC CERTIFICATION
To be certified as organic, your recipe must consist of at least 95% certified organic ingredients.
Certified organic ingredient means having an organic certificate by a recognized agency from the supplier.
If you are unable to source certified organic ingredients in order to meet the 95% rule, your product can be certified as "Made with Organic Ingredients" (Cannot use the BioGro Certified Organic Logo).
Please be aware that certain inputs / ingredients are currently unable to be certified as organic in certain export markets, and this can impact the overall percentage of organic ingredients used in the product.
BioGro is required to confirm you have attempted to source certified organic ingredients from at least 3 suppliers before accepting the use of non organic ingredients for export products.
BioGro also offers Non-GMO certification for all NZ grown ingredients. This is increasingly valuable in export markets and can sometimes offer an alternative where it is not possible to meet the 95% rule to achieve Certified Organic status.
Required Information
Please download templates for completion.
Pre-assessment Application Form
If you have any issues submitting this information via the form, please email with attachments to newlicensees@biogro.co.nz
Rates
Pre-assessment - $300 + GST: This covers 1 product and 2 hours assessment time for our certification team to quickly identify if your product is likely to be successful, and for you to test the process, to see if it is right for you.
($300 credit if your product is compliant and you proceed to full certification within 2 months)
Please note that Pre-assessment requires progressing to full certification to use the BioGro logo and claim certified organic status.
Application fee - $400 + G.S.T (*applies to both International and Domestic Certification programmes)
Initial setup fee includes :
Access the BioGro Portal to complete your Organic Management Plan online
Support from our friendly certification support team to answer queries, including an optional custom webinar to ask your business-specific questions.
Organic Certification For Processed Products- +$2550+ G.S.T (* payable once you have completed your Organic Management Plan to commence assessment & schedule audit.)
Fee includes:
Access to OOAP markets if the products are eligible
Audit of 1 location (e.g. you may have multiple vineyards within a short distance. Additional locations will incur additional costs)
1 scope (e.g. Horticulture. If you require additional scopes e.g. processed product / processor this will incur additional costs)
Input approvals for crop and soil, wine additions, pest control, fertiliser, livestock input approvals, as well as facility management input approval
Additional Auditor Travel Costs will apply according to your region. Please refer to these fees on our Rates Page
Product costs are assessed based on the number of suppliers, ingredients, recipes, markets and labels and are not included in the base price
Please note that new applications must be completed within 1 year of application date. Please refer to the BioGro Withdrawal and Refund Policies for further information
2nd year certification fees adjust to relevant rates + additional charges, detailed below
OOAP China, IFOAM & JAS certification are subject to additional costs
For full details regarding additional costs, please check our Rates Page
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