Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia
2:00 pm
Mr. Mark Zieg:
In theory, that is something we can do, and the quality schemes have been able to bring that on. There are certain things that are taken on for individual groups or suppliers that are added onto the quality assurance inspection, so technically it is possible. However, there are three different organic groups in Ireland and they all have their own auditors. That is the structure at present, so it would take agreement from those bodies for that to happen. I am not sure what the situation would be in that regard.
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