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1.3 Continuing Certification Application

Section 1: Application and General Information

Notifications

Guidance and Additional Regulations

Resources and Links

Latest Updates

Added detailed questions about business structure and connected parties

Worksheet Questions

  1. Legal Name of Operation

  2. Name of Parent Company, if applicable.

  3. Trade names or ‘doing business as’ names, if applicable.

  4. Name of Authorized Representative/Title

  5. Mailing Address: Enter the legal mailing address of the operation. This may be a PO Box or street address. Include suite or apt # if applicable. Provide City, State, Postal Code, and Country

  6. Phone #

  7. Email

  8. Does the authorized representative manage organic production and/or handling?

  9. Is/has the authorized representative ever been a responsibly connected party for any certified organic operation? Responsibly Connected: Any person who is a partner, officer, director, holder, manager, or owner of 10 percent or more of the voting stock of an applicant ora recipient of certification oraccreditation.

  10. If the authorized representative of this operation owns or partially owns any other business entities involved in agriculture and food (organic or non-organic), list them here.

  11. Alternate Contact/Title

  12. Phone # of Alternate Contact

  13. Email for Alternate Contact

  14. Overview of the operation: Crop producers: Include organic and non-organic acreage; Handlers: include types of handling i.e. co-packing, processing, distribution only; Livestock: include types of livestock and approximate numbers of each/group

  15. Legal status of the operation:

  • Sole proprietorship

  • Corporation

  • Cooperative

  • Trust or non-profit

  • Legal partnership (federal form 1065)

  • Other

  • Year business started

  • Number of employees

  • Website address

  1. Do you have access to a copy of the current USDA NOP standard?

  2. If a State Organic Program applies to your operation, provide the current registration or receipt of application. All operations located in California must register with CDFA (crops & livestock) or CDPH (handlers including traders): An organic certificate cannot be issued to California operations without a current state organic program registration

  3. Import from and/or export to:


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