Mutual recognition

In view of facilitating international trade between the GMP companies and their suppliers, OVOCOM vzw/asbl has adopted an interchangeability system between the GMP companies and other existing systems.
All specific provisions are set out thoroughly in technical document ‘BT-02. Purchase : General provisions’.

Further below you will find a short summary. A distinction is made between accepted suppliers and systems accepting the GMP Regulation.

1. Suppliers accepted within the GMP
   
   A GMP company can only buy products or services from qualified suppliers.
   This can be a GMP company or a company with a certain certificate. The latter from systems which have been judged equivalent to GMP by OVOCOM and from which, possibly with supplementary conditions, a GMP company can buy. All purchases must be executed in conformity with BT-02 (if necessary with BT-03 and BT-04).
   In this table you will find an enumeration (the possible supplementary conditions being set out in BT-02) :
   
   

   Organisation	Standard	Additional information
   GMP+ International	GMP+ standard	see BT-02
   Vegaplan	IKKB/GIQF-standard	see BT-02
   IFSA	IFIS	see BT-02
   AIC	FEMAS	see BT-02
   AIC	UFAS	see BT-02
   Q&S	Q&S-system	see BT-02
   Coceral	GTP	see BT-02
   Incograin	CSA	see BT-02
   FAMI-QS	FAMI-QS	see BT-02
   Qualimat	Qualimat-transports	see BT-02
   Qualiwag	Qualiwag	see BT-02

   
   
2. The GMP Regulation is also accepted by other standards
   
   With some other systems, OVOCOM has reached a mutual recognition on on all or on specific topics. These systems accept the OVOCOM GMP Regulation as an equal partner for the delivery of products or services in their standard.
   You can find these systems in the following table :
   
   

   Organisation	Standard	Additional information
   GMP+ International	GMP+ standard	http://www.gmpplus.org
   AIC	FEMAS	http://www.agindustries.org.uk
   AIC	UFAS	http://www.agindustries.org.uk
   Q&S	Q&S-system	http://www.q-s.info
   FAMI-QS	FAMI-QS	http://www.fami-qs.org/documents.htm
   Qualimat	Qualimat-transport	http://www.qualimat.org/transport.php

Moreover, several quality labels for finished products originating from livestock keeping (milk, meat, eggs) require that the animal feed be GMP certified.