2. Accept the document review. After receiving the above application materials, the Provincial Green Office shall register and number them, complete the review of the application materials within five working days, and issue a notice of document review opinions to the applicant, and send a copy to the Central Certification Office. If the certification application materials are incomplete, the applicant is required to submit supplementary materials within 10 working days after receiving the Notice of Literature Review Opinions. If the certification application materials are unqualified, the applicant shall be notified that his application will no longer be accepted in this growth cycle. If the application materials are qualified, Article 3 shall apply.
3, on-site inspection, on-site inspection is mainly aimed at product sampling.
4. Environmental monitoring. The investigation on the present situation of environmental quality in the producing area of green food is completed simultaneously by the inspector during the on-site inspection. After investigation, it is confirmed that the environmental quality of the producing area meets the exemption conditions stipulated in the Technical Specification for Investigation of Environmental Quality of Green Food Producing Areas, and it is exempted from environmental monitoring. According to the relevant provisions of the Technical Specification for Environmental Quality Investigation of Green Food Origin, if it is confirmed that environmental monitoring is needed after investigation, the provincial green office shall notify the designated environmental monitoring agency of green food in writing to carry out environmental monitoring within 2 working days after receiving the investigation report, and send a copy of the notice to the Central Certification Office. After receiving the notice, the designated environmental monitoring agency shall issue an environmental monitoring report within 40 working days, together with the completed environmental monitoring form for green food, directly submit it to the Central Certification Office, and send a copy to the provincial green office.
5. Certification audit. After receiving the inspector's on-site inspection and evaluation report and environmental quality investigation report, the Provincial Green Office will sign the review opinions within 3 working days, and submit the certification application materials, the inspector's on-site inspection and evaluation report, the environmental quality investigation report and the provincial green office's green food certification form to the Central Certification Office. After receiving the materials submitted by the Provincial Green Office, the environmental monitoring report directly sent by the applicant, the product testing report and the questionnaire on the basic situation of applying for green food certification, the Central Certification Office will register and number, issue a notice of acceptance within 2 working days after confirming the receipt of the last material, and notify the applicant in writing and send a copy to the Provincial Green Office. The central certification office organizes examiners and relevant experts to review the above materials and make audit conclusions within 20 working days. If there is any doubt about the audit conclusion and on-site inspection is needed, the central certification office will complete the on-site inspection plan within 2 working days, notify the applicant in writing and send a copy to the provincial green office. After confirmation by the applicant, inspectors will be sent to conduct on-site inspection again within 5 working days. If the audit conclusion is that the materials are incomplete or need to be supplemented, the Central Certification Office will send the Notice of Green Food Certification Audit to the applicant and send a copy to the provincial green office. The applicant shall submit supplementary materials to the central certification office within 20 working days, and send a copy to the provincial green office. 6.6 If the audit conclusion is qualified or unqualified, the Central Certification Office will submit certification materials and certification audit opinions to the Green Food Review Committee.
6. Certification review: After receiving the certification materials and the audit opinions of the certification office, the Green Food Review Committee will conduct a comprehensive review within 10 working days and make a final certification conclusion. The final conclusion of certification is divided into two situations: certification is qualified. The unqualified certification conclusion is qualified certification, and Article 8 shall be implemented. The conclusion is that the certification is unqualified, and the secretariat of the evaluation Committee is making a final conclusion. Within 2 working days, the certification conclusion notice will be sent to the applicant and copied to the Provincial Green Office. Its application will no longer be accepted in this production cycle.