Applications

If you are interested in converting your holding to organic production or in processing, retailing or distributing a product to be labelled as ‘organic’, then follow these easy steps and your application will be underway.

Before doing this potential producers may wish to contact organic producers in their own area to talk through your plans with them and possibly get some on the ground advice (please don't arrive at any holding unannounced - thank you!). To visit an organic farm, 21 official Organic Demonstration Farms have been approved by the Department of Agriculture & Food and the farm walks/open days are organised by Teagasc - the dates of the official Open Days for 2008 are indicated on the attached listing - the walks commence in June and run right through to September 2008. The organic enterprises on each farm are also indicated, e.g. organic beef, dairy and lamb production; field-scale organic vegetables; organic pig, poultry and egg production; organic grain production; small-scale organic horticultural production and so forth. We have provided detailed directions to each of the demonstration farms and also indicate the name of the Organic Trust official representative at each of these events - all of the Organic Trust representatives are Approved Inspectors who can provide you with detailed technical information on any aspect of organic production plus our free information pack. There is also a wealth of knowledge and information available from current practitioners at these events and we strongly recommend that as many of these Open Days/Farm Walks are attended as possible - they are open to both potential and current organic producers.

Potential processors (including importers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers) may wish to avail of the Organic Trust's competitively priced Adequacy Audit (contact Helen Scully in the office for details – 01 8530271).

    Steps to Take:
  1. Complete the relevant application form. Producers need to ascertain if they need an Advisor to help with the Conversion Plan; if so, a list of Recommended Advisors is available from the Organic Trust office (01 8530271) or download list here (1.37mb). If you feel confident enough to produce your own Conversion Plan, guidelines for the completion of such a plan are also available from the office (01 8530271) – these guidelines encompass all of the legislative requirements regarding such plans.
  2. Processors should ascertain if they feel they need the services of our Food Science Technologists in relation to their application – if so, contact the office and we will put you in contact with each other (01 8530271)
  3. Return the completed application form together with cheque for application fee (details of the relevant fees are available from 01 8530271) and all of the enclosures listed on page 2 of the application form to the Organic Trust at the above address.
  4. The Organic Trust will then arrange a timely inspection of your holding or premises. The Organic Trust ensure that the whole process is timely and efficient.
  5. Thereafter you will be inspected on an annual basis - unannounced spot checks also take place.

Organic Trust application forms

Application pack for Primary Producers | farmer_grower_app.pdf (1.6Mb)

Application pack for Processers | processor_distributor_app.pdf (1.58Mb)

Application pack for Retailers | app_retailers.pdf (206kb)

Grant schemes available | organic_aid_scheme_reps4.pdf (2.5Mb)

On farm grant application | on_farm_application.pdf (490kb)

On farm grant application notes | on_farm_grant_notes.pdf (484kb)

Off farm grant application | off_farm_grant_application.pdf (459kb)

On farm grant application notes | off_farm_grant_notes.pdf (444kb)

Organic Trust standards manual.

Download the standards manual standards.pdf (4Mb)

Organic Trust Feed, Seed Rules and Forms

Download the Feed Derogation Form | feed_derogation.pdf (1.1Mb)

Download the Seed Rules | seed_rules.pdf (1.2Mb)

Download the Seed Derogation Form |seed_derogation.pdf (704kb)

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