Reviewer role

The reviewer role is the term used in the GLOBALG.A.P. IT systems Smart Process for the person who carries out the technical review of an audit report, as defined in section 7.5, “Review” of the ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation standard. The following conditions apply for the reviewer:

1. The reviewer cannot be involved in the evaluation (audit) process.
2. The reviewer needs to be registered in CB-AT under the role "Reviewer". In the CB-AT the Reviewer role needs to be defined per Farm Assurance Product. Check if all your reviewers are registered and have the status Approved, Approved – Training Pending or Temporarily approved for their assigned FAP roles. After the transfer of the qualifications from v5 to v6, the status for each role is ‘open’.  Check if the approval of the role is submitted to GLOBALG.A.P. for approval.
3. The reviewer shall have at least the same qualifications as the auditor. Therefore, the review of a QMS audit can only be conducted by a QMS auditor approved for the same farm assurance product and scope.
4. The reviewer is not required to be an active auditor, meaning the five annual CB audits required for the maintenance of CB auditor competency are not a requirement for the reviewer.
5. The reviewer (same person) can also take part in the CB decision-making
   committee. Note: this decision-making committee consists of a minimum of one person. The reviewer can therefore also act as the decision-making committee on their own, if nominated by the CB.

The basic tasks for the reviewer role are: review the audit file and record the recommendations for the decision maker (Certification Committee).
It should be kept in mind that there are specific conditions/requisites to the reviewers for the Accreditation bodies (ABs) according to ISO 17065. Therefore, before being assigned the reviewer role, the person should comply with these requirements.

Note 1: The CB shall meet the ISO/IEC 17065 requirements for their own accreditation.
Note 2: These definitions are only applicable to the Smart Process. The Legacy Process (the current process being used in the GLOBALG.A.P. IT systems) still uses the terms and definitions that apply to the GLOBALG.A.P. database.
Note 3: The Smart Process is the certification process in which the GLOBALG.A.P. database is no longer the leading GLOBALG.A.P. IT system. In the Smart Process, CB-AT is used for auditors' qualifications, AOH is used to conduct the audit and make the certification decision, and the certificate is issued in Validation Service, instead of in the GLOBALG.A.P. database.