GTP Good Trading Practice
The main objectives of GTP are transparency, commonality and awareness of responsibilities with regard to food safety and consumer health among operators in agricultural trade in the food and feed chain. The European GTP guide is a modular part of a quality management system covering the whole food and feed chain, where relevant codes of good practices for other activities are the responsibility of operators active in the respective fields.
GTP is one single guide for operators in the European Union with the aim to protect free movement of goods by demolishing potential non-tariff barriers to trade. Its main principles are its voluntary nature and a quality management in accordance with the HACCP principle. In order to ensure independence, verification of compliance and certification are carried out by an independent third party inspection firm accredited under the standards EN 45011 (ISO 65) and/or EN 45012 (ISO 62) with relevant expertise in the food and feed sector. Control Union Certifications is one of these parties.
GTP is maintained by COCERAL, the European association representing trading operators in cereals, oilseeds, pulses, feedingstuffs, agrosupply and derived products.
GTP certification GTP is based on the concept of Community guides to good hygiene practices covering all trading operators in the agrifood and feed sector.
GTP applies to first stage operators trading on the domestic or intra-Community market or importing/exporting to third countries of cereals, oilseeds, pulses, feed materials of vegetable origin and derived products intended for human or animal consumption.
The aim of GTP is to ensure that products are always traded in accordance with good professional practice as defined by COCERAL and the European representative associations. All definitions and procedures comply with EU Regulations EC/178/2002 on Food Safety and EC/852/2004 and EC/183/2005 on agricultural products of plant origin. The scope is limited to compliance with the regulations on food and feed safety.
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