Apply to Become an Approved Certifier - Regenerative Organic Certified

1.0 General Information

1.1 Legal Name of Certification Body*

1.2 Legal Status*

1.3 Address*

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

1.4 Website

1.5 Phone*

1.6 Primary Contact*

First Last

1.7 Primary Contact Phone*

1.8 Primary Contact Email*

1.9 Other locations

If applicable, please provide a list of all offices and branches associated with the organization where ROC program activities will take place.

2.0 Activities of the Organization

2.1 You are required to be a currently accredited Certifying Body for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Organic Program. Is your Organization also ISO/IEC 17065 accredited? (not a requirement)*

Yes
No

2.2 Please list your NOP (or international equivalent) accreditation information.*

Please include the countries of operation, categories, and number of operators.

2.3 If you hold other program accreditations such as IFOAM, Global Organic Textile Standard, or Textile Exchange, please include that information here. please provide all social fairness certification programs offered by your organization.

Please include the scope of accreditation, countries of operation, categories, and number of operators.

2.4 Have you ever had a program accreditation, scope category, or country of operation removed, denied, suspended, or revoked by an accreditation body?*

Yes
No

If yes, please describe.

2.5 Please list all countries of operation in which ROC program approval is being requested.*

2.6 Is your organization certifying organic product that is recognized under a U.S. equivalency arrangement by a formal trade agreement?*

Yes
No

If yes, please list all arrangements.

2.7 Is the organization involved in any form of consultancy activities for product certification?*

Yes
No

2.8 Pillars applying for in addition to farmer and worker fairness:*

Animal Welfare
Soil Health & Land Management

3.0 Qualified Personnel

3.1 Does the organization subcontract technical review activities?*

Yes
No

3.2 Does the organization subcontract inspection activities?*

Yes
No

3.3 Please list the designated personnel slated for administering ROC program activities:

Program manager:*

Technical reviewer(s):*

Inspectors/auditor(s):*

Sales/marketing/communications:*

Quality control:*

4.0 Certification decisions

4.1 Briefly describe the mechanism for certification decision making (i.e. are decisions made by individuals or a committee?):*

5.0 Dispute handling

5.1 Are complaint and appeals records traceable by scheme?*

Yes
No

6.0. Acknowledgements

By completing this application, the applicant acknowledges and agrees to the following statements:

6.1 The organization agrees to pay the fees as published in the ROC Certifying Body Cost & Fee Structure. A copy of the CB Cost & Fee Structure may be requested by emailing QualityAssurance@RegenOrganic.org. A copy will automatically be sent to the applicant via email upon ROA receipt of application.

6.2 The ROC program evaluation by the ROA will not progress until a preliminary review of the application is completed and the application is approved. Once ROA completes a preliminary review, an on-boarding package is sent to the organization, which includes instructions for completion of the document checklist and review.

6.3 The organization agrees to ensure that their confidentially policy allows access by the ROA to all necessary information and documents deemed necessary to determine eligibility as an approved certification body to administer the ROC program.

6.4 The ROA agrees to provide the organization access to their ROC evaluation and surveillance reports.

6.5 The organization agrees to inform ROC client operators and subcontracted parties involved in ROC certification activities that ROA has access to all information necessary.

6.6 The organization understands that ROC will keep its findings and reports confidential in accordance with the ROC confidentially policy. A copy of the policy is available upon request.

6.7 The organization agrees to supply all requested information by the ROC in a timely manner and documentation shall be submitted in the English language.

6.8 The organization shall have at least one applicant under the ROC program and meet the minimum level of personnel competency as defined in the ROC Certification Body Requirements.

6.9 The organizational representative authorized to sign this application certifies that, to the best of their knowledge, any English translated materials submitted, accurately reflects the contents of the original documents.

The undersigned representative does hereby apply to the Regenerative Organic Alliance to be approved to the Regenerative Organic Certified program requirements for the three pillars of Soil and Land Management, Animal Welfare, and Social Fairness.

Authorization*

I confirm that the information on this form is correct.

Signature*

Name*

First Last

Job title*

Date*

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