Toolkit & good practices: Farm-gate shop

This toolkit is a practical guide for agricultural cooperatives in Romania that want to set up and run a farm-gate shop, as a short-chain model between producer and consumer. It presents the essential authorisation steps, food-safety requirements and hygiene rules, and the obligations on product traceability and reducing food waste. It also includes practical tools, such as procedures, flow diagrams and monitoring sheets, for complying with national and European law.

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Published in May 2025.