**4. Summary**

The results of the conducted surveys point to a substantial level of risk associated with the implementation of the GRASP standard in small vegetable and horticultural farms in Poland. The effective implementation of the standard can be problematic, due to there being no one who fulfils the criteria for workers' representatives. Another problem is establishing a proper date for choosing the workers' representative because of considerable staff rotations during the vegetation season. The obligation to conclude employment contracts or civil law agreements, and to create a system for recording workers' work time is a problem for a lot of farms. Ensuring proper housing conditions is a factor preventing the implementation of the GRASP standard for some farms. In approximately 35% of the surveyed farms, the workers are people from local communities who do not want to work based on civil law agreements. It is the traditional model of purchasing labor in small farms in Poland. Adapting the system to the requirements of the standard would involve the necessity to build, from scratch, a system for managing human resources in farms. This may be problematic, not only in terms of costs, but also because it would require changing the mentality. The results of the conducted surveys indicate a high risk associated with reorganizing the surveyed farms. Based on the conducted risk analysis, it was established that the implementation of the standard in the surveyed farms, which use the local labor force, is currently unreasonable. In the case of bigger farms, which use foreign workers, making a decision about certification should be preceded by an individual risk analysis carried out for a specific farm.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, M.N., Z.G.-S. and D.K.; methodology, M.K., A.S.-S. and J.K.-D.; resources, M.N., M.K., A.S.-S. and J.S.; formal analysis, M.N., D.K. and M.K.; investigation, D.K., Z.G.-S., M.N. and J.S.; resources, M.N., M.K., M.K. and J.K.-D.; data curation, A.S.-S. and D.K.; writing—M.N., M.K., Anna S.-S. and M.K.; visualization, D.K., J.S. and M.N.; funding acquisition, M.N.

**Funding:** This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.
