INTEGRATED FARM ASSURANCE | INTRODUCTION

ENGLISH VERSION 4.0

EDITION 4.0-2_MAR2013
VALID FROM: MARCH 2013
OBLIGATORY FROM: JUNE 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.

INTRODUCTION

2.

GENERAL REGULATIONS

3.

EXCEPTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE GLOBALG.A.P. GENERAL REGULATIONS SPECIFIC TO IFA

3.1 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
3.2 FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTALS
3.3 CERTIFICATE INFORMATION
DISCLAIMER

5.

COPYRIGHT

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1. INTRODUCTION
a) The GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) Standard is a pre-farm gate or on-farm standard that covers the certification of the whole agricultural production
process of the product from before the plant is in the ground (origin and propagation material control points) or from when the animal enters the production process to nonprocessed product (no processing, manufacturing or slaughtering is covered, except for the first level in Aquaculture).
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b) GLOBALG.A.P. provides the standard and framework for independent, recognized 3 party certification of farm production processes based on ISO/IEC Guide 65.
(Certification of the production process cropping, growing, rearing, or producing of products ensures that only those that reach a certain level of compliance with
established Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) set out in the GLOBALG.A.P. normative documents are certified.

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c) The IFA Standard offers several benefits to producers:

(i)
Reducing food safety risks in primary production by encouraging the development and adoption of national and regional farm assurance schemes and with a clear
risk assessed HACCP based reference standard serving the consumer and food chain. It also serves as technical communication platform for continuous
improvement and transparency through consultation across the entire food chain.
(ii)
Reducing the cost of compliance by avoiding multiple product audits on mixed farming enterprises by a single one-stop-shop, avoiding excess regulators burden by
pro-active adoption by industry and by achieving global harmonization leading to a more level playing field.
(iii)
Increase in the integrity of farm assurance schemes worldwide by defining and enforcing a common level of auditor competence, verification status reporting and
harmonizing interpretation of compliance criteria.
d) The IFA Control Points and Compliance Criteria document is separated into different modules, each one covering different areas or levels of activity on a production site.
These sections are grouped into:
(i)
Scopes covering more generic production issues, classified more broadly. These are:
All Farm Base (AF),
Crops Base (CB),
Livestock Base (LB) and
Aquaculture Module (AB).
(ii)
Modules (or sub-scopes) covering more specific production details, classified per product type.

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The diagram below explains the structure of the IFA Standard and the interaction with other GLOBALG.A.P. Standards.

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e) Legislation overrides GLOBALG.A.P. where relevant legislation is more demanding. Where there is no legislation (or legislation is not so strict), GLOBALG.A.P. provides a
minimum acceptable level of compliance. Legal compliance of all applicable legislation per se is not a condition for certification. The audit carried out by the
GLOBALG.A.P. Certification Body is not replacing the responsibilities of public compliance agencies to enforce legislation.
f) Definitions of terminology used in the GLOBALG.A.P. General Regulations and Control Points and Compliance Criteria are available in the GLOBALG.A.P. GLOSSARY
document on the website.
g) Guidelines referred to by Compliance Criteria in the CPCC document are not normative documents, but only serve as guidance to the producers to comply with the
requirements.
h) Only products that are included in the GLOBALG.A.P. product list may be certified. Requests to add new products to the product list shall be send to the e-mail address:
standard_support@globalgap.org with the following information:
(i)
Product
(ii)
Scientific name
(iii)
Any additional information e.g. cultivation, use, alternative names, pictures, etc. This can be supplied via a website link as well.

2. GENERAL REGULATIONS

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a) The GLOBALG.A.P. General Regulations document describes the basic steps and considerations involved for the applicant to obtain and maintain GLOBALG.A.P. Certification,
as well as the role and relationship of producers, GLOBALG.A.P. and the CBs.
b) The GLOBALG.A.P. General Regulations documents relevant to the IFA Standard are:
(i)
PART I: GENERAL RULES- the base document, explains the certification options within GLOBALG.A.P., the registration, assessment and certification processes.
(ii)
PART II: RULES FOR OPTION 2 AND OPTION 1 MULTISITES WITH QMS
(iii)
PART III: CERTIFICATION BODY AND ACCREDITATION RULES
c) Information on benchmarking and rules for benchmarked schemes are explained in the GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarking regulations.

3. EXCEPTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE GLOBALG.A.P. GENERAL REGULATIONS SPECIFIC TO IFA

3.1 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
3.1.1 Normative Documents
(i)

GLOBALG.A.P. Checklist for unannounced surveillance inspections - The Fruit and Vegetables Sector Committee has approved a shortened checklist for the
unannounced surveillance inspections of Option 1 producers. The producer must still comply with 95% of the Minor Musts of the original checklist. The results of
the unannounced surveillance inspections replace the results of the corresponding control points of the announced inspection. Non-compliances against minor
must control points that were detected during the announced inspections, which are not included in the unannounced surveillance inspection, shall be checked.

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3.1.2 Registration Process Application and Certification Scope

(i)

Harvesting:
a) Must be included in the certification scope, unless produce is sold before harvesting and the buyer will carry out handling.
b) The CB is responsible for making the decision as to whether harvesting may be excluded or not, based on requirements set out in Part III.

(ii)

Post-harvest Produce Handling:

a) When it does not take place under the ownership of the applicant, it must be declared during registration and indicated on the certificate.
b) Is not applicable for a given product where the final packing or handling and the last human contact with the product has taken place in the field during
harvest. In this case control points under FV 4.2 are applicable and consequently those under FV 5.0 are not applicable. However, when these products are
stored in a walk-in faciity under ownership of the producer, relevant points under FV 5.0 are also applicable and product handling shall be included in the
certificate.
c) Cannot be included when harvesting is excluded (see (i) above).
d) Must always be included as long as the product belongs to the producer during handling (by the producer or subcontractor), unless there is written
evidence (contract, agreement, etc.) that the producer has no control over the packing/handling/storage and the product is not returned to the producer.
e) Producers must register for Parallel Production/Ownership when they own (produce or buy) certified and non-certified products of the same product.
f) When the product handling unit (PHU) already has a post-farm gate food safety certification recognized by GFSI (www.mygfsi.com), the GLOBALG.A.P.
inspector must inspect segregation and traceability (that is AF.10, CB.1.1 and where applicable AF.12) as well as post-harvest treatments (FV.5.8.1-14) if
applicable, unless there is a bilateral agreement between GLOBALG.A.P. and the GFSI recognized post-farm gate standard owner that these points are
included in the scope of the post-farm gate certificate.
If a producer does not perform product handling on farm, but at the facility of another producer that does have GLOBALG.A.P. Certification (including product
handling), the CB may accept another CBs certificate or the CB may decide to perform its own inspecton of the PHU.

3.1.3 Assessment Process

(i)
(ii)

The Fruit and Vegetables Sector Committee has approved the use of a shortened checklist also for regular announced subsequent inspections as a reward to
producers who have been certified for multiple years against Option 1 (possible for Option 3).
Rules:
1. The reduced checklist can only be used once a producer has been certified for at least 2 years
2. The outcome of the last two inspection was 100% compliance with the major must and 95% with the minor must control points on the day of the inspection
and there were no outstanding suspensions in the last two years.
3. The rules for inspection would be the same as for the unannounced surveillance inspection described above.
4. Whenever the rules for initial inspection as explained in the GLOBALG.A.P. General Regulations Part I holds true (e.g. changing from one CB to another,
adding a new product) or when a new version is released, the CB must conduct an inspection against the original (full) checklist.
Example 1: For a new Fruit and Vegetables producer seeking certification for the first time (in all years complying with the certification rules):
2011: Full checklist against IFA V4
2012: Full checklist against IFA V4
2013: Approved shortened checklist against IFA V4
2014: Approved shortened checklist against IFA V4
2015: Full checklist against IFA V5

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Example 2: For a producer who has been certified against IFA V3:
2011: Full checklist against IFA V3 or Full checklist against IFA V4
2012: Full checklist against IFA V4 or Approved shortened checklist against IFA V4
2013: Approved shortened checklist against IFA V4
This does not change the possibilty of receiving an unannounced surveillance inspection by the CB.

3.2 FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTALS

3.2.1 Conversion period for Flowers and Ornamentals
Sometimes, flower and ornamental (FO) GLOBALG.A.P. producers buy material in their early stages of growth from non- certified sources and then complete the
growth under certified environment and process until products can be marketed.
One of the two options below has to be followed to allow these plants/flowers whose growth is completed under certified production (or controlled production in
case of initial certification) to be sold as GLOBALG.A.P. certified.

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Option A:
1. Crops shall be grown under the ownership of the FO certified/applicant producer at least 3 months before being sold as certified.
2. In case the growing cycle is shorter than 3 months, at least 2/3 of the growing cycle shall be done by the FO certified/applicant producer and in the case of
flowers, growing under GLOBALG.A.P. Standard conditions shall also start before the flower has opened.
3. The beginning of the growing period counts from sowing or when the cuttings are planted.
4. The supplier of the non-certified material shall be an authorized supplier, e.g. propagation material license/authorization according to the national scheme shall
be available.
Option B:
5. Alternatively, producers can apply for a grace period. In such a case:
5.1. All their suppliers need to be registered for certification in the first year.
5.2. In second year of certification, 50% of suppliers must have obtained GLOBALG.A.P. FO Certification.

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5.3. In third year, 100% of the suppliers must have obtained GLOBALG.A.P. FO Certification.
Note: This situation is not considered as parallel production or ownership, therefore, producers do not need to register for it in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database.

3.3

CERTIFICATE INFORMATION

The paper certificate issued by a CB must conform to the template as supplied by GLOBALG.A.P. See Template after 5. COPYRIGHT.

4. DISCLAIMER
FoodPLUS GmbH and GLOBALG.A.P. approved Certification Bodies are not legally liable for the safety of the product certified under this standard and not liable for the data
accuracy and completeness in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database entered by the GLOBALG.A.P. Certification Body. Under no circumstances shall FoodPLUS GmbH, its employees
or agents be liable for any losses, damage, charges, costs or expenses of whatever nature (including consequential loss) which any producer may suffer or incur by reason of, or
arising directly or indirectly from the administration by FoodPLUS GmbH, its employees or agents or the performance of their respective obligations in connection with the
scheme save to the extent that such loss, damage, charges, costs and/or expenses arise as a result of the finally and judicially determined gross negligence or willful default of
such person.

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5. COPYRIGHT
Copyright: GLOBALG.A.P. c/o FoodPLUS GmbH: Spichernstr. 55, 50672 Kln (Cologne); Germany, including all standard documents. Copying and distribution permitted only
in unaltered form.

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EDITION UPDATE REGISTER

New document

Replaced document

Date of
publication

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Description of Modifications
Modification GLOBALG.A.P to GLOBALG.A.P.;
2 b) (i) modification of wording

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3.1.2 (ii) e) and 3.1.3 (ii) 2. modification of wording

If you want to receive more information on the modifications in this document, please contact the GLOBALG.A.P. Secretariat mailto:translation_support@globalgap.org.

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When the changes do not affect the accreditation of the standard, the version will remain 4.0 and edition update shall be indicated with 4.0-x. When the changes do affect the
accreditation of the standard, the version name will change to 4.x.

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AB symbol
accreditation mark2

CB Logo1

No. of Certification Body: xxx3

GGN: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx4
Registration number of producer / producer group (from CB) xxxxxxxxx5
Registration number from Benchmarked Schemes xxxxxxxxxxxx6
7

CERTIFICATE
According to GLOBALG.A.P.
General Regulations Version8
Option X9
Issued to
Producer group / Producer
Company name, Address 10
Country of Production 11
The Annex contains details of the producers and production management
units /product handling units included in the scope of this certificate.12
The Certification Body [Company Name] declares that the production of the products
mentioned on this certificate has been found to be compliant in accordance with the standard:

Scheme Logo (AMC)

Standard Control Points and Compliance

Criteria Version14

13

The [Standard Name] normative documents have achieved status of equivalence to

GLOBALG.A.P. normative documents [Name and version] in accordance to the
15
GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarking procedure.

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Product

16

GLOBALG.A.P.
Product
Certificate
17
Number

Further columns
scope, sub-scope or
product specific
(description see
18
below)

Date of Issuing (printing date of certificate): xx/xx/xxxx

23

Valid from: xx/xx/xxxx

Valid to: xx/xx/xxxx24

Number of
19
producers

Parallel
20
Production

Parallel
21
Ownership

22

Authorized by25
___________________
Date of Certification Decision:
26
xx/xx/xxxx

The current status of this certificate is always displayed at: http://www.globalgap.org/search

27

CB contact data28
Company name, Address (incl. Email)
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ANNEX for GGN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx29

Date of Issuing: xx/xx/xxxx

22

Producer Group Members (Option 2 or 4)30

Product(s)

GGN

31

Company/Producer
32
name and address

Product
Handling/
Post Harvest
33
Activities

Parallel
34
Production

Parallel
34
Ownership

Product Handling Units (PHUs) or Production Management Units

(PMUs)35
GGN, GLN
or Sub36
GLN

Unit name and address

37

Parallel
34
Ownership

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Product(s)

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Notes

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The certificate shall be in English. A second language may be added in the certificate.
1

Certification Body (CB) Logo shall always appear on all certificates.

Accreditation Body (AB) symbol/accreditation mark is placed on all accredited certificates

in conformity with AB's rules.
Exception: When the CB is approved, but not yet accredited the following text must
appear instead of the AB symbol: Certificate issued by a GLOBALG.A.P. approved
Certification Body [Company name], but not accredited to the GLOBALG.A.P Scope
according to ISO 65/EN45011/ISO 17065 rules or only Non-accredited certificate. The
AB logo can only be used when the scope of the accreditation of the CB shall correspond
to the certified GLOBALG.A.P. Sub-Scope.

The number given by the Accreditation Body to the Certification Body shall be on all
accredited certificates.

GLOBALG.A.P. Number (GGN) shall appear on all certificates. In case a certificate

holder owns a Global Location Number (GLN), this number shall replace the GGN. The
GLN or own GLN may be used instead of GGN.

The registration number of a producer or producer group, which is assigned by the CB

may appear on all certificates. It consists of the CB-Short and a number (with exactly one
space character between, CB-Short xxxxxxxxxxx).

Registration number of benchmarked scheme may appear.

The logo of the scheme

On accredited GLOBALG.A.P. Certificates: The GLOBALG.A.P. logo shall be added.
Approved Modified Checklist (AMC): The GLOBALG.A.P. logo shall be added in addition
to the AMC logo (13).
Full Benchmarked and Equivalent Schemes: The GLOBALG.A.P. logo may be added in
addition to benchmarked schemes logo.
Note: Not-accredited provisionally approved CBs are not allowed to add the
GLOBALG.A.P. logo.

Certification Scheme and Version

For GLOBALG.A.P Certificates: Please enter, e.g. GLOBALG.A.P General Regulations
Version 4.x_date. Always indicate the exact Version (e.g.: 4.0_Jan2011)
For Approved Modified Checklist (AMC): Enter e.g. GLOBALG.A.P General Regulations
Version 4.x. Please indicate the exact Version (e.g.: 4.0_Jan2011).
For Full Benchmarked and Equivalent Schemes (Option 3 and 4): Enter the exact
certification scheme version, e.g.: AMAGAP Produktionsbestimmungen Version January
2008.

Option must always appear on certificate as:

Option 1 - individual producer,
Option 1 - individual multisite producer,
Option 1 - individual multisite producer with QMS,
Option 2 - producer group,
Option 3 - individual producer under full benchmarked or equivalent scheme,
Option 4 - producer group under full benchmarked or equivalent scheme.

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Name of the certificate holder (legal entity) and the address shall be printed on the paper
certificate.

11

Country of production shall appear on all certificates.

12

Applicable only if
a) the certificate holder is a producer group (Option 2 or 4). All producer group members
shall be listed in the Annex.
b) product handling or packing is included in the scope of the certificate. All product
packing and handling units shall be listed as a PHU in the Annex.
c) the certificate refers to a multisite (Option 1 or 3) certificate. All sites of the multisite
operation shall be listed as PMUs in the Annex.
d) the certificate holder has registered for parallel production. All PMUs (production) or
PHUs (packing and handling) with certified products shall be listed by product in the
Annex.

13

In case of AMC, Full Benchmarked or Equivalent Scheme certificates: Logo of the

scheme may appear.

14

Standard Control Points and Compliance Criteria (CPCC) Version, (e.g. GLOBALG.A.P.
Control Points and Compliance Criteria Integrated Farm Assurance Version
4.0_Jan2011 or AMAG.A.P Version January 2008). Indicate only the version of the All
Farm Base Module.
Indicate the version of the approved National Interpretation Guideline if published for the
Country of Production (according to note 11.). E.g.: GLOBALG.A.P. Control Points and
Compliance Criteria (CPCC) Version 4.0_Mar2011 - Interpretation Guideline The
Netherlands (111122) .

15

Only applicable for Fully Benchmarked Equivalent Schemes and AMC

16

Certified product(s) shall always be listed according to the GLOBALG.A.P. product list.
More detailed information may be included in brackets, e.g. stage of seedlings (species
specific information: ova, smolt, fry, fingerling, larvae, alevin, spat, nauplii and post
larvae, others) or variety (banana - cavendish). More detailed information shall be
included in case of Parallel Production with different varieties.

17

The GLOBALG.A.P Product Certificate Number shall be printed on the paper certificate.
It is a reference code to the certificate in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database per product and
certificate cycle. The GLOBALG.A.P. product certificate number is generated
automatically in the system and consists of 5 digits, 5 letters and a suffix (#####-ABCDE####). All changes to the certificate in a given certificate cycle are reflected in the suffix.

18

The columns and corresponding attributes linked to the products in the table are scope,
sub-scope or product specific.

Further Harvest
Covered (ha)

First Harvest
Covered (ha)

Further Harvest
Non-Covered (ha)

First Harvest
Non-Covered (ha)

Parallel
Ownership

Parallel
Production

Number of
producers

Product Handling
included

Harvest included

GLOBALG.A.P.
Product
Certificate
Number

For Crops:

Product

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Notes:
Harvest included: If produce handling is included, this data field (column) can be omitted.
Note: If harvest is excluded, product handling is not applicable for the given product.
Product handling (including field packing): Enter yes or no in the column. If product handling in a
facility does exist, the PHU for handling or packing shall be listed in the Annex. In case packing is
done in the field, the fields or sites may be listed.
Quantity (voluntary): Area (in ha) may be included per product according to segregation in First and
Further Harvest or without segregation. In case quantity (in ha) is displayed, Non-Covered and
Covered shall be segregated.

Quantity
(in tons)

Parallel
Ownership

Parallel
Production

Number of
producers

GLOBALG.A.P.
Product
Certificate
Number

Product

For Livestock products:

Quantity (voluntary): Tons (live weight) may be included in certificate.

Quantity Seedlings
(Estimated no. of
organism)

Quantity Broodstock
(Estimated no. of
organism)

Farmed Fish (in tons)

Parallel Ownership

Parallel Production

Number of
producers

Post harvest activity

Seedlings purchased?

Broodstock
purchased?

GLOBALG.A.P.
Product Certificate
Number

Scientific name

Product

For Aquaculture products:

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Notes:
Scientific name: The scientific name shall be listed according to the GLOBALG.A.P. product
list.
If broodstock is purchased: enter yes/no.
If seedlings are purchased: enter yes/no into that column.
Post harvest activity: Enter yes or no in the column. If post harvest activity does exist, the
PHU (handling or packing) shall be listed in the Annex.
Quantity of farmed fish, broodstock, seedlings (voluntary): Tons (live weight) may be
included for farmed fish, estimated number of organism may be entered for broodstock and
seedlings (in-house production).
19

Applicable for Option 2 or 4: Add number of producers, which are listed in the Annex.
Column shall appear only in case of Option 2 or 4.

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20

Applicable in case of parallel production of non-certified and certified products (yes/no)

All PHUs/PMUs for certified products shall be listed in the Annex.

21

Applicable in case of parallel ownership (buying the same, but not certified product,
yes/no).

22

Date of Issuing is the printing date of the paper certificate. It shall be added to the first
page of the certificate and to the Annex to connect each other.

23

The certificate Valid from date defines the beginning of a certification cycle.

24

The certificate Valid to date is the expiry date of the certificate.

25

The first and the last name of the person who has authorized the certificate, it shall be
written in block letters. This person must sign the certificate.

26

Date of Certification Decision shall appear on all certificates. It is the date when the
Certification Committee makes the certification decision.

27

This note shall be added to all paper certificates to point out that only a validation in the
GLOBALG.A.P. Database proves the current status of the certificate.

28

CB contact data (company name, address, email) shall appear on all certificates.

29

The Annex (incl. the GGN of the certificate holder) shall be added, if applicable.

30

In case of Option 2 or 4, all members of the producer group shall be listed in a table per
product.

31

All members of the producer groups (Option 2 and 4) are different legal entities and
receive a GGN, which shall appear in the table.

32

Name and address of the producer group members shall be printed on the certificate.

33

Indicate which members have product handling (Yes) and which do not (No).

34

In case of parallel production or parallel ownership of non-certified and certified products

this shall be indicated (yes/no). In this case, all PHUs and PMUs with certified products
shall be listed. Column shall appear only if certificate holder /group member has
registered for parallel production or for parallel ownership.

35

In case of product handling and packing (including storage) or post harvest activity: all
PHUs for handling or packing shall be listed in a table per product.
In case of multisite Option 1 or 3: all sites (PMUs) shall be listed in a table per product.
In case of parallel production or parallel ownership: all PHUs (packing and handling) and
PMUs (production) with certified products shall be listed in a table per product.

36

In case PHU or PMU has a, (own) GLN or Sub-GLN, it shall be listed. This is applicable
independently from legal ownership of the units. In case PHU or PMU belongs to another
legal entity and has no Sub-GLN, certificate holders GGN or GLN shall be noted. In all
other cases (e.g.: subcontracted packaging company without agricultural production) this
entry is optional.

37

Name and address of the PHU or the PMU shall be listed. It can be the same address as
the legal entity. Units may have the same physical address.

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