Find out more about Bio Garantie as a company and as an employer
Bio Garantie was established in year 2021 and it operates as an independent, accredited control and certification body. The entire activity was taken over from Austria Bio Garantie Sucursala Bucuresti because we want to draw more attention to the fact that we guarantee organic products together - you as the producer and we as the inspection body. This is an important signal to consumers in a growing organic market. The organic market is international and trust in certification brands is enormously important. We are part of the Austria Bio Garantie Group (Austria, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Hungary) - with this step the connection of our group of companies will be better visible for the market. Our company complies with the regulations of Romania and the EU necessary for its operation, therefore it acts as a certification body acknowledged by our national Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Austrian Accreditation Authority.
Our identification code is: RO-ECO-029.
Bio Garantie provides farmers, processing units and traders, operating in the food industry, with information mandatory for obtaining organic certification, thereby contributing to the introduction of sustainable production methods, as well as to strengthening the position of the certified companies on the market. Besides the agricultural holdings dealing with growing plants or raising animals, our company also offers its services for agricultural processing companies in Romania. Since 2021 Bio Garantie is member of the Easy-Cert Group, which was established by the leading certification body of Austria, Austria Bio Garantie GmbH (ABG) and Switzerland, bio.inspecta AG. The subsidiaries in Romania, Croatia and Italy also belong to the group. Other organic certification bodies, like CERES GmbH and bio.inspecta AG also joined the Easy-Cert Group, together with all their subsidiaries. As a result, EASY-CERT Group is one of the biggest inspection and certification bodies in Europe. The group of companies operate in an integrated quality management system, utilizing a harmonized inspection and certification process, which is more effective, faster and enables to provide a higher quality service.
Mission
Bio Garantie helps agricultural holdings and businesses develop and strengthen their market position in a sustainable way.
With its comprehensive range of services BG stands for quality, reliability and customer utility.
Future-oriented
As member of the Easy-Cert Group, BG belongs to one of the biggest inspection and certification body in Europe. BG inspects and certifies products produced in accordance with principles of environmental and social sustainability and animal welfare.
Credible
Competent, experienced BG staff are deployed to carry out inspection and certification of agricultural holdings and processing and trading companies - and they do so in a manner that is clear, independent and reliable. In this way, the credibility of the products and processes inspected or certified by BG is guaranteed.
Client-oriented
BG gears its activities towards the needs of its clients and maintains openness in its communications with them. BG strives continuously to enhance its clients' satisfaction by providing, from one source, products that meet clients' requirements and services that are efficient.
Committed
In its day-to-day work, BG is active in promoting organic farming and committed to ethical and social issues. BG strives to maintain a positive working environment. By helping staff to enhance their social and professional skills, BG motivates them to work in a manner that is results-oriented, autonomous and team-focused.
Accreditation means the formal recognition of the technical and organizational competence of an authority to execute a specific service as described in the scope of accreditation.
Bio Garantie is an accredited inspection and certification body in accordance with ISO 17065. All activities are subject to supervision by the Austrian Accreditation Body and the National Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Accreditation is a confidence building measure which allows authorities, economy and society to judge if inspection or certification bodies fulfill specific tasks with the demanded high reliability.
-- Accreditation document
-- Scope of Accreditation
-- Approval certificate – MADR
The satisfaction of our customers is very important to us, so it is also important that complaints and appeals against decisions are dealt with in a transparent appeal. If you have an appeal to an inspection or certification decision that we have carried out, please contact us.
Our customers can lodge complaints and appeals if they do not agree with the result of the inspection or with the inspections or certifications we have carried out. Please contact us in writing - if possible by e-mail - and we will process this as quickly as possible. In any case, we will inform you in writing of our decision and also tell you to which authority you can lodge your complaint or appeal if you are not satisfied with our decision.
We would like to point out that you can submit an appeal within 14 days of the inspection or decision.
The management of Bio Garantie is committed to impartiality and independence, and ensures that its colleagues perform their work genuinely, due to high standards, complying with the current legislations, impartially, in a trustworthy, accurate way.
Therefore our Committee on Ipartiality is committed to ensure that Bio Garantie conducts its business in an impartial manner.
In case you feel that your case was not handled in an impartial way, and would like to request an investigation, please contact a member of our Impartiality Committee through the following link.