Consumers are increasingly looking for products and services that better fit their preferences or constraints, whether they are for health, safety, moral, religious reasons or, simply, for their own satisfaction.
Aware of such notorious changes of consumer habits, organizations offering products or services seek to capture the attention of consumers through advertising, but also and increasingly, through statements on specific quality statements on labeling that satisfy the demand of certain consumers, such as aspects related to health, safety, sustainability, social responsibility, recycling, circular economy, animal welfare, work-family conciliation, gender equality, etc.
For decades, the certification bodies have played an essential role in assessing compliance with the standards and checking the quality of products and services.
Other organizations have made an essential contribution to such goal as well:
- laboratories,
- inspection bodies,
- specialized consultants,
- technology and R+D centres,
- universities and educational centres, as well as
- countless individuals,
whose knowledge and experience have helped to improve our current quality of life.
Such monitoring and ensuring role, that has been discreetly performed by these organizations and individuals, has allowed them to acquire knowledge and skills that can be put in value to consistently launch an initiative like CONFICERT.
What is CONFICERT
CONFICERT is a not-for-profit association, with global scope and managed by accredited Certification Bodies.
We aim to build a new and friendly business environment by the creation, promotion and evolution of global certified quality brands as an access gate to transparent information on the statements provided in the labelling or in the advertising of the products and services, as well as about the organizations that produce or supply them, in close collaboration with public and private administrations and entities, groups of interest, retailers’ associations, distributors, consumers and sectorial associations, associations, standards promoters, etc.
Our Mission
Our mission is to be the common umbrella under which members can operate globally. We aim to become a reference for the definition and monitoring of the quality of products and services that are offered to consumers.
Our experience can help to improve the reliability of quality declarations but and, above all, CONFICERT can provide transparency on the information B2C, through impartial and competent 3rd party certification assessment and reporting.
OUR BRAND SYNTHESISES OUR MISSION
Our Objectives
To create and to promote global certified quality brands (GCQB) applicable to products, services and organizations of any nature, aimed to provide clear and transparent information to final consumers and whose members may be from any country of the world.
OBJECTIVES
01
To develop B2C quality brands
Including the standards they are based on, their certification mechanisms, as well as the requirements for individuals and organizations according to their roles in the certification processes.
02
To train and monitor the competence
Of the individuals and CBs who participate in the evaluation of compliance with the requirements in which the GCQBs are based on.
03
To watch and monitor the integrity
Of all individuals and organizations involved in the certification processes through a robust, thorough, and reliable integrity program.
04
To create and mantain a portal
Where consumers can have complete and transparent information on the quality attributes of certified products and services
Our Team
Matías Romero
President
Matías Romero graduated as an Agricultural Engineer in 1988, with a specialization in food industries and food technology.
- From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a project engineer at Union of Engineers and Economist Consultants, S.A.
- From 1992 to 1998, he was a founding partner of ARTICA Asesores, S.L. In 1996, he created and directed the consulting department.
- From 1998 to 2003, he was a founding partner and CEO of Entidad Certificadora de Alimentos de España, S.A.
- Since 2003, he has been a founding partner and CEO of the companies in the ACERTA group.
David Galeote
Vice-president
David Galeote is CEO and Co-founder of ICDQ. ICDQ is a private and independent certification, verification, and inspection entity with a local and global focus.
It was founded with the aim of providing a new concept in certification services, with three key objectives: quality, professionalism, and a high level of customer service. In addition, ICDQ is the Vice President of ACERTES, the Spanish Association of Certifiers and Verifiers of Conformity Assessment.
Javier González
Secretary
Javier González is an Agricultural Engineer with extensive experience in the field of agri-food certification and quality.
His passion for agriculture and commitment to sustainability led him to found OCE Global, a Spain-based company with a strong reputation in the certification market.
Since 2013, he has served as the CEO of the company, where he has contributed to its growth and expansion into different territories through the certification of Organic Production, Denomination of Origin Wines, and other differentiated quality schemes.
Francesc Alany
Treasurer
Francesc Areny is CEO Since 2008 of Instituto Comunitario de Certificación, SL an agri-food product certification Company located in Spain.
It focuses its experience on the certification os schemes for agri-food products with differentiated quality as well as for the Export to third countries of products of animal origin.
Since 2013, he has served as the CEO of the company, where he has contributed to its growth and expansion into different territories through the certification of Organic Production, Denomination of Origin Wines, and other differentiated quality schemes.
Daniel González
CEO
Daniel González has got a degree in Marine Sciences and is the Development Area and Operations Manager in ACERTA, a certification body operating in the agrifood and the R&D+I sectors with head office in Madrid (Spain).
He has got a broad national and international experience within the agrifood sector at production and management level in scopes as environment, food industry, fishing, aquaculture, and animal feed production, as well as at certification level in these scopes and in R&D+I, being responsible for coordination labors related to accreditation, new projects, and international coordination.