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BOPP Membership Benefits
- Meet customer requirements
- Gain preferred supplier status
- Ensure that you are legally compliant
- A means of continuously improving your business
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BOPP Membership Benefits
- Meet customer requirements
- Gain preferred supplier status
- Ensure that you are legally compliant
- A means of continuously improving your business
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BOPP Membership Benefits
- Meet customer requirements
- Gain preferred supplier status
- Ensure that you are legally compliant
- A means of continuously improving your business
-
BOPP Membership Benefits
- Meet customer requirements
- Gain preferred supplier status
- Ensure that you are legally compliant
- A means of continuously improving your business
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BOPP Membership Benefits
- Meet customer requirements
- Gain preferred supplier status
- Ensure that you are legally compliant
- A means of continuously improving your business
Whats New
Defra CoP Protecting our Water, Soil and Air
This Defra Code of Practice (CoP), published in 2009, replaces the separate CoPs for Water, Soil and Air previously in use. It has been uploaded to the Members' area under Technical Support, Environment.
BOPP AGM and Technical Seminar presentations available on website
The presentations from the BOPP AGM and Technical Seminar 2010 have been uploaded to the AGM area of the website as follows:
BOPP AGM presentations:
Steve Homer's presentation to the BOPP 2010 AGM introducing three potential new partners to BOPP
- Red Tractor Farm Assurance Fresh Produce Scheme. Mark Tatchell
- MPS - a leading authority in sustainability. Ronald van den Breevaart
- The Horticultural Trades Association and BOPP. Tim Briercliffe
Presentations from the technical seminar:
Recent Defra projects, Susie Holmes, Susie Holmes Consulting. 2010
- Practical management of peat alternatives, Bill Carlile, Bord na Mona. July 2010
- Growing media specifications, Dr Jim Smith and Elaine Gotts, The Scotts Company. July 2010
- Optimising crop nutrition, Bill Riley, Hortifeeds. July 2010
- Soil sterilisation, Sue Hockland, Fera. July 2010
TAC meeting minutes 24.03.10
The minutes of the March 2010 TAC meeting have been uploaded to the website and can be located within the Members' area, TAC minutes.Newsletter 37, May 2010
The latest BOPP Newsletter has been uploaded to the Newsletter Archive, in the Members' Area. The Newsletter contains details of the 2010 AGM and Technical Seminar and the new re-entry periods being introduced for pesticides.
Auditor Aide Memoirs
Auditor Aide Memoirs for the revised Grower and Ornamental Packhouse Standards have been uploaded to the Members' Area, Guidance Notes area of the website. These documents are of use to those carrying out internal auditors from January 2010.
Revised BOPP Grower and Packhouse Standards
The revised BOPP Rules and Operating Procedures, Grower and Packhouse Standards and summaries of the changes are available for download from the BOPP Standards section of the website. An updated Sample Manual is available within the Members Area (under Sample Manuals). The revised Standards will be effective from 1 January 2010.
BOPP News
- FEB 12 BOPP Member Update February ... This important update aims to clarify the recent changes to ...