Eurepgap is a system of quality administration that was created starting from the initiative of a group of German merchants back in 1997. Eurepgap (Eurep - Retailers Produce Worlding Group and GAP - Good Agricultural Practice) has as objective the evolution of product patterns of the provision industry in the whole European continent, reducing the risks, assuring the quality and harmlessness of the foods in its primary production, still focusing the implementation of practices for a sustainable production. It is a code of conduct to be followed by producers that long for to receive the certification from an exempt third part.

Certification model and normative document, Eurepgap bases on good applied agricultural practices in the production of fruits, coffee, grains, fresh vegetables, red meat, fish (salmon and trout) and also ornamental flowers. The certification, which includes the whole production process, it has been becoming fundamental condition for the access of in natura products in the international market.

The requirements that include the Eurepgap norms:

- Implementation of a system that renders possible to track the product, assuring the total attendance of the productive chain;
- Adoption of production techniques integrated with warranties of control of the use of pesticides, minimizing their impacts in the foods, in human beings and also in the environment;
- Hygiene conditions that assure the quality of the foods;
- Work environment appropriate to the workers' needs;
- Animal well-being.