Visec

VISEC – Traceability Platform for Deforestation-Free Soy and Beef

VISEC is a national platform developed by key Argentine organizations (CIARA‑CEC, The Nature Conservancy, Tropical Forest Alliance, and Peterson). Its goal is to ensure environmental and legal compliance traceability for soy and beef batches intended for the European market, in line with EU Regulation 2023/1115 on deforestation.

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    VISEC

    About the VISEC Protocol

    It operates as an MRV system (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification), applying farm georeferencing, satellite imagery, and tracking from the production site to the shipping port.

    Benefits of working with VISEC + Control Union

    Ensures that your products (soy or beef) comply with zero-deforestation and legal origin criteria established by European regulations, backed by verifiable technical support.

    Enables the export of products to the EU with documented and verified origin and legality.

    Combining VISEC as a national platform with Control Union as the verifier provides legitimacy and verifiable traceability for importers.

    Helps anticipate the requirements of European legislation, avoiding rejections or penalties related to deforestation or lack of due diligence.

    Requirements to apply

    • Production must be georeferenced and uploaded to the VISEC platform.
    • Compliance with EUDR criteria, such as no deforestation after 12/31/2020 – verified by satellite.
    • Registration as an operator on the VISEC platform for the verification of plants, factories, ports, and shipments.
    • Provision of documentation related to traceability and legal declarations.

    What is Control Union’s role?

    Control Union is authorized as an independent verification body for plants, factories, ports, and goods within shipments using the VISEC platform. We comply with the official procedure to integrate recognized certification bodies, enabling us to validate the environmental and legal traceability of products intended for the EU.

    Aplication process

    VISEC Platform

    Register as an operator

    Access the VISEC Soy or VISEC Beef platform and complete your registration as an operator or exporter. https://www.visec.com.ar/somos-visec/

    Contact us

    Once registered, reach out to request our participation as a verification body.

    Complete the verification request

    We will send you the official form you need to initiate the process.

    Receive the financial proposal

    We will provide an offer tailored to the type of product, destination, and operation.

    Confirmation and coordination

    Once the proposal is signed, we coordinate the audit according to the VISEC protocol.

    Report and certificate issuance

    We issue the technical report and the enabling certificate within the VISEC platform.

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    How can we help?

    Would you like more specific information about our certification programs? If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us; we will be happy to get in touch with you.

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