DC no.2

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refers to a written request by a farmer-member, candidate or certified farmer-member for reconsideration of an adverse decision made by the PGS group related to their desired certification status.

Appeal

include, but not limited to, refusal to accept an application, refusal to proceed with the peer review, changes in certification scope, decisions to deny, suspend or revoke certification, and any other action that impedes the attainment of certification.

Adverse decisions

refer to activities for learning and development that will enhance the skills and knowledge of a person. These include activities, such as but not limited to training, formal and informal meetings, peer reviews or group discussions, and evaluations of the PGS initiative and its processes.

Capability building activities

refers to a procedure by which a government agency or an accredited organic certifying body (OCB)/core PGS group provides written or equivalent assurance that farms, or production and processing systems, conform to organic standards.

Certification

refers to a process whereby a committee evaluates the submitted peer review reports and issues certification decisions.

Committee review

refers to a written expression of dissatisfaction by any person or organization to the competent authority and/or accredited core PGS group relating to its activities and operations.

Complaint

refers to the time between the start of organic management and certification of the crop or animal production system or site as organic.

Conversion period (or transition period)

refers to the basic grouping unit in the PGS with at least 5 farmers whose farms shall have a combination of crops and livestock (per item (y) of Rule 3.1 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the amended Organic Agriculture Act of 2010) production certified organic by BAFS within the municipality, city or province. It may add to its membership farmers from other sectors in agriculture, NGOs, people's organizations, buyers of organic agriculture products, suppliers of organic inputs, among others, who all live or operate within the province and regularly interact with the concerned PGS group.

Core PGS group

refers to market reach of PGS guaranteed products, which denotes national or regional borders or locality (e.g., provincial, municipal or barangay level), wherein farmers may directly link with consumers or indirectly through an intermediary. PGS groups are locally relevant and shall promote food self-sufficiency within the community.

Domestic market

refers to the presence of objectivity. Objectivity is understood to mean that conflicts of interest do not exist or are resolved so as not to adversely influence the activities of the body. Other terms that are useful in conveying the element of impartiality are independence, freedom from conflicts of interest, freedom from bias, freedom from prejudice, neutrality, fairness, open-mindedness, even-handedness, detachment, and balance.

Impartiality

refers to a document approved by consensus by the PGS group, which can be repeatedly used to provide rules, guidelines, or characteristics of a product, process, or production method fit for their purpose.

Internal Standard

refers to a labeling term that denotes produce and products of plants that are obtained through production and/or processing in accordance with organic agriculture in the conversion period intended to market as food.

In-conversion period

refers to a legal entity accredited by a government agency to perform inspection and certification activities. It is responsible for verifying that a product sold or labeled as 'organic" is produced, processed, prepared, or handled according to relevant guidelines.

Organic Certifying Body (OCB)

refers to a locally-focused quality assurance system which is developed and practiced by people actually engaged in organic agriculture. It is huilt on a foundation of trust, social network, and knowledge exchange. It is used to certify producers and farmers as actual and active practitioners of organic agriculture.

Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

refers to a documentary proof that a core PGS group or a farmer member of the accredited PGS group is compliant with the requirements, standards, and norms of organic farming/agriculture. It shall be issued by a government agency or by an authorized OCB, after the conduct of an investigation and certification activity on the application for certification by the core PGS group. It shall have a validity of three (3) years.

Participatory Organic Certificate (POC)

refers to a process where farmer members assess the compliance of production practices of their peers to the internal standards and procedures set by the PGS group; also refers to farm inspection.

Peer review

refers to a legal association or cooperative of registered farmer- members and other stakeholders in a Participatory Guarantee System.

PGS group

refers to a process by which a farmer-member assesses his/her own farming practices using the internal standards and procedures set by the PGS group.

Self-review

refers to those utilizing not more than five (5) hectares of land for the single purpose or, of a combination of the following purposes for, agricultural crop production, including rice and corn, aquaculture, and poultry/livestock raising:

Small farmer/fisherfolk

Small farmer/fisherfolk refers to those utilizing not more than five (5) hectares of land for the single purpose or, of a combination of the following purposes for, agricultural crop production, including rice and corn, aquaculture, and poultry/livestock raising: Provided, That poultry/livestock raising shall not have more than the following:

Poultry-1,000 (layers) or 5,000 (broilers) Swine/native pigs-10 (sow) or 20 (fatteners) Cattle-10 (fatteners) or 5 (breeders) Dairy-10 milking cows Goat, sheep, and other small ruminants-50 heads

refers to the collective term for all involved in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a Participatory Guarantee System.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders refers to the collective term for all involved in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a Participatory Guarantee System. It includes the following:

Primary Stakeholders, Supplier Groups, Support Sectors

refer to farmers, processors, traders, and consumers with the highest level of involvement in the PGS activities.

Primary stakeholders

refer to the groups that supply inputs, machineries, equipment, and packaging materials.

Supplier groups

refer to the academic and research institutions, government agencies (LGAs/LGUs/NGAs), financial institutions, NGOs, and people's organizations (POs) sectors that offer technical and/or financial support.

Support sectors

Key Elements of Participatory Guarantee System (PGS). The PGS group shall embody and embrace the following key elements:

Shared Vision, Participation, Transparency, Trust, Horizontality, Learning Process

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