Tier Guidance Documents
As a member of Origin Green, your company has become part of something pioneering: no other country in the world has a national food and drink sustainability programme that operates across all key players in the industry.
Origin Green – Key Programme Submission Dates for Manufacturing Members - 2025
- Origin Green members are recommended to submit their draft annual review / plan to their assigned Origin Green mentor by the 29th March, 2025. This is a completely optional deadline, but it ultimately aims to provide members with sufficient time to make any necessary amendments before the next deadline date.
- To be eligible for Origin Green Gold Membership, members must submit their finalised 2023 annual review to Mabbett by the 31st May, 2025. Failing to meet this deadline will result in members being listed as "Verified with Annual Review Pending Approval" on the Origin Green website.
- To retain verified Origin Green membership, it is a critical requirement that companies submit a finalised annual review to Mabbett by the 30th September, 2025. Failing to meet this deadline will unfortunately result in members being downgraded from the programme, which may impact access to Bord Bia services.
Target Scoring Guide 2024
In order to ensure a consistent methodology in the verification of Annual Reviews under the Origin Green credits system, Bord Bia’s third-party verifiers have produced this guidance document.
Tier 1 Guidance
Credits system and annual review guidance for companies with an annual turnover of >€250m.
Tier 2 Guidance
Credits system and annual review guidance for companies with an annual turnover of >€50m – <€250m.
Tier 3 Guidance
Credits system and annual review guidance for companies with an annual turnover of >€10m – <€50m.
Tier 4 Guidance
Credits system and annual review guidance for companies with an annual turnover of >€1m – <€10m.
Tier 5 Guidance
Credits system and annual review guidance for companies with an annual turnover of >€100,000 – <€1m.
Origin Green Verification Scoring Appeal – 2024
The below guidelines outline the process for appealing a score within an Origin Green Verification Report. Where a member feels it has been scored incorrectly during the verification process, the company will be entitled to one official recheck within a given year for the particular target area(s) in question. Members will have 20 working days from the date they received the initial verification report to submit an appeal. Please note that this document and respective procedure is only relevant to 2023 annual review submissions.
Origin Green EPA National Priority List Notification Form
The below notification form is for an Origin Green member to inform Bord Bia on their inclusion within the EPA National Priority Site List. Where a member has been placed on the EPA National Priority Site List, the member must submit the form to Bord Bia ahead of the quarterly public release of the National Priority Sites Listing.