JONA
Japan Organic & Natural Foods Association

JONA Fee Schedule 2015
This is compiled from the excerpts of JONA Organic Certification Program 2015.
Fees for certification: A. Company / Organization
JONA Full Member(1) (Main Applicant)

B. Small Family Farmer

JONA Associatemember (2)(3)

Non-Member■JONA Membership Fee
Initial Fee(only for the 1st year)
Annual Membership Fee

A.
B.
A.
B.

¥ 50,000¥ 5,000¥ 120,000¥ 12,000

A.
B.
A.
B.

¥¥¥
¥

20,0005,000
36,000
6,000

A.
B.
A.
B.

¥¥
¥¥

0000

(1) A JONA full member is a corporation or an individual who supports purposes of JONA as a non-profit
organization and voluntarily engages or is planning to engage in organic production, processing,distribution, and such. JONA shall not exclude them for nationality, region, race, religion, and so forth
but JONA may reject those who have engaged in illegal organic operations.
(2) An associate member is an organization or an individual who is contracted with a full member fororganic production.
(3) When a full member applies for multiple certifications, the fee for an associate member applies for eachapplication from the 2nd one except for repackers and importers that applies for both organic
agricultural product and organic (agricultural) processed food.

■Pre-application fee

System Use Fee(only for the 1st year)¥ 0 (covered bymembership fee)

¥ 0 (covered bymembership fee)

Main applicant
A. ¥ 50,000
B. ¥ 5,000
Subcontractor
A. ¥ 20,000
B. ¥ 5,000■Certification fee (for the initial year)
Application Fee(4)(5)(6)

A. ¥ 20,000
B. ¥ 10,000

A. ¥ 20,000
B. ¥ 10,000

A. ¥ 20,000
B. ¥ 10,000

Inspection Fee

Refer to Inspection
Fee

Refer to Inspection
Fee

Refer to InspectionFee¥ 0 (covered bymembership fee)

Main applicant
A. ¥ 120,000
B. ¥ 12,000
Subcontractor
A. ¥ 36,000
B. ¥ 6,000

Certification Fee¥ 0 (covered bymembership fee)

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JONAJapan Organic & Natural Foods Association(4)

If a repacker or an importer applies for both organic agricultural products and organic (agricultural)

processed food, application fee will be for one application.
(5)

If an applicant for JONA-IFOAM Certification applies for EU Certification as well, the difference ofapplication fee between IFOAM and EU certification (10,000 yen for a corporation and 5,000 yen for a smallfamily farmer) is charged in addition to the application fee of IFOAM Certification.
(6)

If an applicant applies for Swiss Certification together with EU Certification, JONA charges theadditional fee of 10,000 yen.

JONA Full Member(Main Applicant)

JONA Associate
memberNon-Member■Post-Certification fee
User’s fee(for use of marks andnames of JONA)

Annual MaintenanceFee (7)Up to sales ofproducts as certifiedby JONA: 0.1-0.5%¥ 0¥

A. ¥B. ¥020,000
5,000

Main applicant
Up to sales certified
by JONA: 0.1-0.5%
Subcontractor¥ 0
Main applicant¥ 0Subcontractor
A. ¥ 20,000
B. ¥ 5,000nd(7)Annual Maintenance Fee of an associate member will apply from each application from the 2 one of afull member except for repackers and importers that apply for both organic agricultural products and organic(agricultural) processed food.

■Post-Certification Fee regarding Certification (every year from the 2nd year)
A. ¥ 20,000
A. ¥ 20,000
A. ¥ 20,000
Application Fee (8)B. ¥ 10,000
B. ¥ 10,000
B. ¥ 10,000
Refer to Inspection
Refer to Inspection
Refer to Inspection
Inspection Fee
FeeFeeFee
Main applicant
A. ¥ 120,000
Certification Fee¥ 0 (covered by¥ 0 (covered byB. ¥ 12,000(Ongoing Service Fee)
membership fee)
membership fee)
Subcontractor
A. ¥ 36,000
B. ¥ 6,000
Ingredient evaluation fee(for one ingredient)¥ 10,000¥ 10,000¥ 10,000
Cosmetic only(8 )If a repacker or an importer applies for bothorganic agricultural products and organic (agricultural)
processed food, application fee will be for one application.

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JONAJapan Organic & Natural Foods Association■ Irregular Surveillance Fee (9)Irregular surveillance¥ 2,000
only by documents
Irregular surveillance by A. ¥ 18,000 + Inspection Fee
on-site inspection
B. ¥ 8,000 + Inspection Fee(9)Fee for reviewing documents of a minor change or addition at the C.C. is 2,000 yen. The evaluationthat requires on-site inspections costs 18,000 yen for corporation and 8,000 yen for small family farmer plus
Inspection Fee in such cases as 1. the C.C. decides it is necessary to make an on-site inspection and 2. theoperator is subject to JONA Certification Program III-a 3.4.7 as an operator to inspect more frequently thanonce a year or be questioned about its operation and 3. there is a rumor from a trustful source about
questionable operations.
Note: Minor changes or additions mentioned above can be made if the C.C. verifies them only by
documents in such cases as not increasing contamination or co-mingling risk: changes without
amendments of the Internal Regulations and amendment of manuals consequent to revision of the Internal
Regulations. If a change is big enough, such as addition of the production lines or a whole plant, JONA
shall evaluate it as an annual surveillance.

■ Inspection Fee (In case that on-site inspection is conducted not by the foreign certification bodybut by JONA)
ItemFee
Conditions
Daily Allowance for on-site inspection
per person
Daily allowance for inspection trip perperson
Report Fee¥25,000

Max 8 hrs.

¥15,000¥5,000Max 4 hrs (a half day)In case that arrival is needed 1day before
inspection or that it takes for an inspector
more than 7 hours to make a round trip
extra fee added in case of large scale. Can be
estimated
extra fee added in case of large scale. Can be
estimated
extra fee added in case of large scale. Can be
estimated.
extra fee added in case of large scale. Can be
estimated

P.P.M.D.

¥5,000

Manufacturer¥3,000Repacker¥3,000Handler
importers)(including¥5,000

Note 1: Report fee of the sub-contracted facilities (facilities, warehouses, etc) under an applicant’s
certification is 3,000 yen.
Note 2: An estimate of inspection fee can be issued if requested from an applicant.
Note 3:P.P.M.D. mentioned above means “P.P.M.D Concerning Organic Agricultural Products and OrganicFeeds (Limited to those prepared or selected only)”, “P.P.M.D Concerning Organic Processed Foods andOrganic Feeds (Excluding those prepared or selecting)”, and “P.P.M.D. Concerning Organic LivestockProducts”.
Note 4: Re-packer means “Re-packer Concerning Organic Agricultural Products, Organic Processed Foods,Organic Feeds and Organic Livestock Products”.
Note 5: Importer means “Importer Concerning Organic Agricultural Products and Organic Agricultural
Product Processed Foods”.
Note 6: The report fee is to be charged for COR regardless of whether the inspection is simultaneously
performed for other certification.

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JONA
Japan Organic & Natural Foods Association・ JONA’s Inspection Fee consists of daily allowance per day and report fee.
・ The applicant bears in principle such expenses as those for traveling and accommodation of theinspector. For overseas operators, the postage fee for sending documents shall be 2,500 yen
uniformly.
・ Report fee in principle includes such expenses as those for correspondence and consumables.
・ Traveling cost is in principle charged as departing from the address where the inspector registers
JONA that s/he resides.
◆User’s fee [Royalty] (calculated by rate according to sales. Limited by a ceiling of
600,000yen ) (tax excluded) max 0.5%
Gross Sales

Percentage

Example for Calculation

0.5 %If sales are 20 million, the fee is…
20 mil×0.5%¥ 100,000

If sales are 40 million, the fee is…
20 mil×0.5%+20 mil×0.4 %¥ 100,000+¥ 80,000= ¥ 180,000

0.3 %If sales are 70 million, the fee is…
20 mil ×0.5
＋20 mil×0.4%＋30 mil×0.3%¥ 100,000+¥ 80,000+¥ 90,000= ¥ 270,000

0.2 %If sales are 100 million,(Same as the calculation above)¥ 330,000

0.1 %If sales are 370 million,(Same as the calculation above)¥ 600,000

0 - 20,000,000 yen

20,000,001 yen 40,000,000 yen

0.4 %40,000,001 yen
70,000,000 yen-

70,000,001 yen
100,000,000 yen-

100,000,001 yen 370,000,000 yen

Total Amount

Above 370 million
yen¥ 600,000◆Other fees
Item

JONA Full Member(Main Applicant)

JONA Associate
memberNon-Member

JONA OrganicStandards

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

¥10,000 (The first time andwhenever revised)

JONA Certification
Program

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

¥10,000 (The first time andwhenever revised)

Application Forms

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

0 (Covered bymembership fee)

10,000 (The first time andwhenever revised)

Course Fee¥20,000¥20,000¥20,000

In principle, JONA shall not reimburse the fee received.
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