The Trustee concept is a core feature of the GLOBALG.A.P. invoicing. Producers or Producer groups must have a trustee. The trustee works for GLOBALG.A.P. as a “commission agent”. They are responsible for the collection of the registration fee of all products linked to the GGN, whereas only Certification Bodies are invoiced the Certification licence fee.
The Trustee company manager gets assigned the role of Trustee-Executive by GLOBALG.A.P. CB-Administration. Users with the role Trustee Executive may assign the role Trustee-Masterdata to themselves and to any employees of the Certification Body.
The Trustee-Masterdata role is needed for
a) the initial registration of producer/producer group. The registration is done either online or by upload and once completed the producer/producer group will be linked to the Trustee company and will get the status “registered”. This status is the precondition for product acceptance and certification by the Certification Body.
b) adding products to a producer/producer group. Please note that only the user Trustee-Masterdata of the Trustee CB of the respective producer/producer group can enter the products. If the products of the producer are certified by different CBs, it is the Trustee CB that adds the products, please read more in the article Manage Business Relations.
Once the products were added, the respective responsible Certification Body can proceed with accepting the products and complete the certification process.
Once a product has been accepted, this triggers the registration fee which is collected by the Trustee.
