Certificate in the clock front

As of 19 December 2019, the procedure for showing certificates has been changed and simplified. We will now be able to show validated certificate information on the clock and the certification of the grower will be up to date and reliable. Please find all the information that's important to you below.

The procedure for awarding a certificate in the EAB has been changed and simplified. Until now, we validated and filled in only the certificates MPS A/B/C and GlobalG.A.P. The other certificates were filled in by the growers themselves.

Starting 19 December, the EAB at the clock supply will be automatically filled with the certificates upon arrival of the lot. We fill in this information based on the information we receive through Floricode from the relevant certifying organisation. This will enable us to show validated certificate information on the clock and the certification of the grower will be up to date and reliable.

This table shows you which certificates we validate automatically and under which characteristics.

Automatically filled in by Royal FloraHolland

For a number of certificates, growers themselves fill in this code in the EAB because Floricode doesn't yet receive the certificate information from all the organisations.

This table shows you for which certificates this is the case. For the grower, too, the characteristics you can use for this when filling in.

Give yourself through EAB (by grower)

Certificates FairTrade cannot be shown on the clock or in the supply due to demands from the certified organisations.

Now that we fill in the certificate details in the EAB automatically, the use of the characteristic value K07 is no longer necessary. We will no longer be using this code on the clock and are therefore deleting the values filled in. The same applies to other characteristics filled in by Royal FloraHolland. If the grower fills these in the EAB, we validate it and change it if necessary. If you don't fill in anything, then we will do it for you.

In consultation with various customers and growers in our sector, we have identified which certificates are the most important to the market. This has determined the order in which the certificates are shown. You will see the certificate with the highest priority first. If there is insufficient room on the clock to show all the certificates, then the certificate with the lowest priority will not be shown.

All valid certificates are always shown in the supply rows with each lot. When going through the supply, you can select based on this and mark the desired lots.

You can also filter on the certificate of your choice in KOA, and it is easy to select lots with the certificates you desire.

In the coming months, we will be working on showing certificates in the optimum order through a number of different releases.

From October 16, 2021, the FSI logo will also be visible on the clock front. If the grower is FSI-compliant, we automatically validate the FSI logo in the clock front. We add this on explicit demand from the market. More and more clock buyers are purchasing on the basis of certification criteria from the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI). The addition of the FSI logo makes it immediately visible whether a grower - depending on the country of production - has the required certificates to meet the minimum FSI criteria. In 2021 we will show this logo based on the FSI2020 requirements. From January 1, 2022, this will change and the FSI2025 requirements will apply to be visible as FSI-compliant with the FSI logo on the clock front.