Organic production certification - information and offer

You submit an application (online or on paper), we prepare an offer and conclude a contract for control and certification. Then, within 10 days, you notify the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAF). The conversion period also starts from that date.

The conversion period is the time between the start of control and the moment when the products can be sold as organic. During it you comply with all the rules of organic production, but the products do not yet bear an organic indication.

For annual crops - 2 years before sowing. For meadows and perennial forage crops - 2 years before their use as feed. For perennial crops - 3 years before the first organic harvest. For animals and bees there are separate periods, described in the respective sections.

By 10 January each year you submit an annual production programme. You keep a farm diary and registers of purchases, sales, treatments, yields and stock. The documents must be presented during the inspection.

The inspector walks through the site, checks the registers against what they see and traces the quantities from input to sale. Where necessary, they take samples for analysis. They check the available machinery and premises. They prepare a report on the basis of which a certification decision is taken. In addition to the annual inspection there may be additional ones, including unannounced inspections.

On a basic annual fee and on the scale of control: decares, number of animals, number of hives or hours of control for processing and trade. All prices are published in our price list.