Requirements retailers

The conditions for participation to FFP as a retailer are:

  • Register with Fair Flowers Fair Plants via Internet and accept the FFP conditions
  • Purchase numbered FFP consumer labels with which the products to sell are recognisable in the shop
  • The numbered consumer labels are linked to the point of sale
  • Attach the FFP consumer label to the Fair Flowers Fair Plants product (each bunch/plant). This is the official guarantee to the consumer!
  • Active use of the promotion material in the shop
  • With regard to the products sold as FFP products, able to demonstrate from which FFP supplier they were purchased
  • Participating retailers must cooperate with checks

Costs per year (January 1, 2011)

€ 55,- per shop/branche
Purchase of labels and promotion material.

General requirements

  • The shops receive a Fair Flowers Fair Plants promotion package to inform consumers
  • In the shops the FFP label is attached to the product as guarantee for the consumer
  • Mixing FFP products with non-FFP products and then selling these as FFP products is not permitted
  • Checks on meeting the requirements are held without prior notice and with the assistance of mystery guests or independent organizations
  • Participants are listed on the Fair Flowers Fair Plants website, with the possibility of adding relevant company details
  • In cases of non-compliance with the rules, as stated in the conditions, there is a fine system that can eventually also include exclusion from the system