the quality package
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The Quality Package. Seminarium: Livsmedelskvalitet ur olika perspektiv, Stockholm, 19.1.2011 Lars Hoelgaard, Vicegeneraldirektör. Quality Package. Discussions in EP & Council on legislative proposals. 10 Decembre. Timetable. Legislative proposals?. 2009. 2010. 2011-2012. 2008. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Quality PackageThe Quality Package
Seminarium: Livsmedelskvalitet ur olika perspektiv, Stockholm, 19.1.2011
Lars Hoelgaard, Vicegeneraldirektör
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28 May
Communication
Green Paper
15 Octobre
Timetable
10 Decembre
Quality Package
Legislative proposals?
20092008 2010 2011-2012
Discussions in EP & Council
on legislative proposals
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- PDO/PGI
- TSG
- Optional Quality Terms
-‘free range’ (poultry)
-‘first cold pressing’ (olive oil)
Proposal on
Agricultural product quality schemes
COM(2010) 733
Minimum requirements EU quality schemes Private and public initiative
Proposal on Marketing standards
COM(2010) 738
- General marketing standard
- Place of farming
- Lisbon alignement
Guidelines on Best practices for
Voluntary Certification
schemes 2010/C 341/04
The Quality Package
Guidelines onLabelling of foodstuffs
with PDO/PGI ingredients
2010/C 341/04
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Agricultural Product Quality Schemes
Commission proposes to:• Strengthen• Clarify• Simplify
the existing schemes (PDO/PGI, TSG, optional quality terms)
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Agricultural product quality schemes
Scope
Protection
Procedures
PDO-PGI
Relation with TM
Definitions
TSG
Role of producers groups
Protection of symbols
Scope
Definitions
Registration only with reservation
Optional QualityTerms
Existing termslisted
Possibility to reserve new terms
Controls
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Guidelines on PDO-PGI ingredients
Principle: PDO or PGI registered name may
be included in the ingredients list
Use of EU PDO-PGI terms, abbreviations or symbols
Registered name may be mentioned in or close to the foodstuff name but…
How to advertise an ingredient comparable to the PDO/PGI ingredient
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Marketing standards
• New General Marketing Standard (fair, sound & marketable) – apply to all products covered by the sCMO (Reg 1234/2007)
• Existing provisions maintained & may be streamlined in the future
• Sectoral marketing standards can be adopted by delegated acts
• Possibility to introduce mandatory indication of Place of farming for all products:– on a case by case basis – subject to impact assessment.
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Guidelines for voluntary certification schemes
38 concrete recommendationsScheme participation
and development
Scheme requirements and corresponding claims
Inspection &
certification
Mutual recognition, benchmarking &
overlap with other schemes
Introduction & definitions
The existing legal framework
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• Objective of this enhanced quality policy is to ensure the EU has the right tools to help farmers better communicating the qualities of agricultural product, and thus getting a fair price for their products.
• Next steps:– Discussion in the European Parliament
– Discussion in the Council
– 2012 at the earliest adoption of the Regulation on agricultural product quality schemes by Council of ministers and European Parliament
Conclusions
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Thank you for your attention
DG Agriculture and Rural Development Unit H.2 – agricultural product quality policy
DG AGRI website on Quality: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/quality/index_en.htm