Search GGN with a valid IFA certificate and click "New document".
Select the FAP (add-on) that you want to issue a letter of conformance. All the FAP that are add-ons are indicated with the word add-on.
When you click it, the available leading certificates with their correspondent options (e.g IFA op 1 Smart of IFA-GFS op 2 ...) are shown. And you need to select the certificate that will be linked to the add-on
After clicking the certificate the tick box changes from grey to green and you can select "Create".
After the draft letter of assessment is created, it´s status is automatically shown as "Created".
The overall assessment result must be set (dropdown menu available)
Please, select Type of Audit and Audit method:
Entering the audit method and type of audit works the same as for IFA (please, refer to the article Certificate Data).
After that you must select the attributes of this specific Add-on (e.g. number of workers for GRASP)
Selecting the sites of an individual producer/member or the members of a group works the same as for IFA (please, refer to the article Certificate Data).
Please, add sites for option 1 and PG members and their sites for option 2 by clicking on the green plus button.
If product handling is included in the scope, PHUs must be also added.
Hint: At least a Main site is needed to create a certificate.
Click on the listed sites/PHUs to add them to the certificate.
After you click on the green plus button in the certificate template, a list of PG members will appear. Please, select the members you would like to add to the certificate. You can (de-)select all members by clicking on the button on top of the list.
Hint: Please, check the Producer Management in the article Registration to know how to link members to a PG.
If you added some members by mistake, you can remove them:
Please, select sites for the PG and each member.
Recording the cycle, the audit date and the authorized person also works the same as for IFA (please, refer to the article Certificate Data).
Please, select the products and their attributes.
After you have added all the Sites for option 1 / PG members and their sites for option 2, products and their attributes, please, enter the Audit Date
and the validity dates.
Please, select the authorized person and the Date of conformance decision:
If you click on "Save" button, the final draft of the letter of conformance will appear in the assessment data of the GGN.
Before issuing the letter of conformance, the status "Assessed" must be set to this draft letter of conformance.
Hint: Remember that cycle, products and sites of IFA and add-ons must match.
Finally you must change the status of the draft letter of conformance to "Assessed" and save.
Note: If you change the validity of IFA certificate, the validity of add-on is NOT changed automatically.
Depending on the add-on, the overall assessment result can have different selections.
E.g., for GRASP, it can be "conformance/non-conformance/Not Applicable".
