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The Quality Package

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 .

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The Quality Package

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  1. The Quality Package Seminarium: Livsmedelskvalitet ur olika perspektiv, Stockholm, 19.1.2011 Lars Hoelgaard, Vicegeneraldirektör

  2. Quality Package Discussions in EP & Council on legislative proposals 10 Decembre Timetable Legislative proposals? 2009 2010 2011-2012 2008 Communication Green Paper 28 May 15 Octobre

  3. The Quality Package EU quality schemes Private and public initiative Minimum requirements Proposal on Marketing standards COM(2010) 738 Proposal on Agricultural product quality schemes COM(2010) 733  Guidelines on Best practices for Voluntary Certification schemes 2010/C 341/04 Guidelines on Labelling of foodstuffs with PDO/PGI ingredients 2010/C 341/04 • - General marketing standard • - Place of farming • Lisbon alignement • PDO/PGI • TSG • Optional Quality Terms • ‘free range’ (poultry) • ‘first cold pressing’ (olive oil)

  4. Agricultural Product Quality Schemes Commission proposes to: • Strengthen • Clarify • Simplify the existing schemes (PDO/PGI, TSG, optional quality terms)

  5. Agricultural product quality schemes PDO-PGI TSG Optional Quality Terms Scope Existing terms listed Scope Definitions Definitions Protection Registration only with reservation Possibility to reserve new terms Relation with TM Role of producers groups Protection of symbols Procedures Controls

  6. Guidelines on PDO-PGI ingredients Principle: PDO or PGI registered name may be included in the ingredients list Registered name may be mentioned in or close to the foodstuff name but… How to advertise an ingredient comparable to the PDO/PGI ingredient Use of EU PDO-PGI terms, abbreviations or symbols

  7. 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.

  8. Guidelines for voluntary certification schemes Introduction & definitions The existing legal framework 38 concrete recommendations Inspection & certification Scheme participation and development Scheme requirements and corresponding claims Mutual recognition, benchmarking & overlap with other schemes

  9. Conclusions • 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

  10. Thank you for your attentionDG 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

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