Information on voluntary Certification - Foodcert India

44Main opportunities and constraintsCurrently, certification against Q GAP is exempted from any fees. Thescheme is both audited and certified by the Department of Agriculture. Thesystem and certification mark is not internationally benchmarked. In orderto create a standard that may be benchmarked internationally, the ThaiChamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Thai Government hasstarted work on developing ThaiGAP. At the time of publication of thismanual, collaboration between Thai stakeholders and GLOBALGAP had onlyjust started on ThaiGAP. It was planned that ThaiGAP would obtainbenchmarking with GLOBALGAP by the end of 2008.More information on Thailand - Q GAP and ThaiGAP- Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Thailand:www.acfs.go.thwww.doa.go.th/en/- Inspection Manual for Certification:www.aphnet.org/workshop/SPS%20matters/Thailand/thai%20gap.pdf- The Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkokwww.thaiechamber.comTel: + 66 2622 18604.1.2.5 Japan - JGAP certificationThe Japan Good Agricultural Initiative (JGAI) was formed by a group ofJapanese producers in April 2005, to establish a system that ensures thesafety of agricultural produce by establishing one common standard ofgood agricultural practices in Japan - JGAP. The Japanese Ministry ofAgriculture announced in June 2006 that JGAP would become the nationalstandard, meaning that several private retailers and the current ministry