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Transfer of a Certification Body

In the situation where a client informs the Certification Body (CB) in the application form about being certified in the past by another CB and therefore already having a GGN, the new CB cannot notify and register this client again, as this would result in a new GGN being created, meaning double registration.

It is crucial for the integrity of the system that every producer can be found with only one GGN in the database. Therefore, clients with existing GGNs have to be transferred from one CB to another instead of creating a new GGN in case they wish to change CB.

It is not possible to transfer a GGN with a valid cycle. This can only be done once the accepted product cycle or certification has run out. Where a certificate extension exists please see How to handle Trustee changes after extension, in case where active cycle exists, please, see Switching Certification Body during an active cycle.

Producers/Producer groups that do not have any accepted or certified products are able to switch their Trustee-Certification Body immediately without further consultation of GLOBALG.A.P.

A Certification Body that has been informed by a new producer about their previous certification should first check the GGN in the database Search. If there are no accepted or certified products linked with the GGN, the relevant error message appears.

Subsequently, the GGN that the producer provided has to be looked up in Affiliation / Registration.

Producers who do not have valid cycles will not turn up in Search but only reflect the information mentioned in the above error message. These producers can be registered with the new Farm Assurer/Trustee-Masterdata or Trustee-Certification Body as shown in the screenshot below.

The transfer of a Producer Group GGN can be done by registering the respective GGN  in Affiliation under the Registration Producer Group.

If a Producer/Producer Group is registered in this way, the Certification Body that certifies the products can enter a new registration number in Masterdata.