How do you produce or develop an existing SIQO product?
You are planning to produce or develop a product under a quality or origin identification sign (SIQO) and you know the SIQO product you are planning to produce. This page shows you the process for joining the scheme.
Read product specifications
If you wish to produce an existing SIQO, you must first identify and study the specifications corresponding to your product. It indicates the product's characteristics (specificity, production area for PDO and PGI products whose characteristics are linked to a geographical location...), the rules for production, processing and possibly packaging and labeling. You must ensure that your production meets all the criteria indicated in the specifications.
Specifications are transparent for consumers and operators. They can be consulted on the product data sheets referenced on our search engine.
Joining the approach: a commitment for operators
Operators joining the scheme must follow several commitments:
Respect the specifications and their production conditions, but also the declarative obligations, the keeping of registers provided for carrying out controls, and specific labeling rules
Perform self-inspection, accept inspections and bear the costs
Accept inclusion on the list of authorized operators
Identify yourself to the defense and management organization
You must then contact the organisme de défense et de gestion (ODG) in charge of the product, with a view to obtaining authorization. In particular, the ODG will ask you:
- The identity of your structure
- Elements describing your production tool
- Your commitments concerning the implementation of the specifications and those relating to controls
The ODG will check your application and pass it on to the inspection body, which will carry out the documentary control and on your production site, with a view to habilitation.
The contact details of the ODGs are listed in the product data sheets referenced on our search engine.
In Organic Agriculture, there is no defense and management organization. An operator wishing to produce in AB must first register with the Agence Bio.
Pass the clearance test
The clearance inspection includes verification of the structural rules, enabling us to meet the requirements of the specifications, in particular the conformity of the production tool. It is carried out on your premises. It is carried out by the inspection body (OCO). Occasionally, under the responsibility of the latter, it may be carried out by the ODG. You can only be accredited if the results of the inspection are compliant. Authorization is granted by the inspection body or by the INAO.
Joining the family of official signs identifying quality and origin
Once authorized, you can produce or elaborate the product under SIQO. You are registered on the list of authorized operators and become an ex officio member of the ODG as a SIQO operator. As part of this process, you must pay a contribution, as well as a fee to the INAO.
As the approach is based on the collective, it is essential that all operators participate in the life of the ODG (general assemblies, commissions...) but also in the promotion, good image and notoriety of your SIQO product, as well as its protection.
Documentation
Produire sous signe officiel d'identification de la qualité et de l'origine
Vous projetez de produire ou d’élaborer un produit sous SIQO ? Ce document explique les principes étape par étape.