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Proceedings 9. - 11. 03. 2009, Bonn, Germany 27th International Meeting Quality Control Fruit & Vegetables © BLE, IAT - 2009 Editor Federal Office of Agriculture and Food [Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung] Deichmanns Aue 29 53179 Bonn Germany Division 413 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: www.ble.de Phone: +49 (0)2 28 68 45 - 3927 Fax: +49 (0)2 28 68 45 - 39 45 Redaktion Referat 413 The Proceedings of the International Meeting Quality Control of Fruit and Vegetables are copyrighted. No part of these Proceedings may be reproduced, copied, translated, electronically stored, processed, duplicated or dissemi- nated without the written permission of the Federal Office of Agriculture and Food. This proceedings is as of Spring 2009 Meeting International Meeting Quality Control Fruit and Vegetables, 09. - 11. March 2009, Bonn, Germany © BLE, IAT - 2009 Inhalt Welcome address 4 Volker Raddatz Marketing Standards being in Flux 6 Dr. Peter Sutor Simplification of Standards and Inspection for Fruit and Vegetables in the EU 8 Dr. Ulrike Bickelmann UNECE - Commercial Agricultural Quality Standards 16 Serguei Malanitchev EC Marketing Standard for Pears 27 Reinhild Fänger Diversity of Pear Varieties 29 Andreas Zschammer Some aspects of quality production of pear in France 34 Sandrine Codarin Marketing standard for pears and quality production in Chile 35 Edmundo Araya EC Marketing Standard for Sweet Peppers 41 Hans-Georg Levin Sweep peppers - quality production in Turkey 45 Neslihan Ataş Sweet peppers – Quality production in the Netherlands 48 Gerrit Jan Kornet General Marketing Standard for Fruit and Vegetables 54 Heinrich Stevens The Future of UNECE Standards in the EC 66 Dr. Ulrike Bickelmann Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007– panel discussion – 71 Sandrine Valentin, Christiane Henning, Dr. Lajos Nemeth, István Ecsedi, Dr. Andreas Brügger, Karl Schmitz, Dr. Peter Sutor Quality production of pineapples in ACP countries 78 Denis Felicite-Zulma Questions regarding marketing standards and inspection 81 Franz Egerer, Mat Kersten, Heinrich Stevens How to crack quality problems by inspection 91 Mat Kersten Questions regarding marketing standards and inspection– panel discussion – 93 Mat Kersten, Jaime Camps Almeñiana, Ian Hewett, Dr. Ulrike Bickelmann Speakers 97 © BLE, IAT - 2009 4 Welcome address Volker Raddatz Ladies and gentlemen, the time from 1st July 2009. And really all of those that will implement the new EC law are On behalf of the Working Group on Quality gathering here. A little more than half of the Control of Fruit, Vegetables and Ware Pota- participants come from ministries or public toes and the Federal Agency for Agriculture control bodies. The circle is made complete and Food organising this event, I welcome by representatives of production, of whole- you at the 27th International Meeting on sale and retail trade as well as the private Quality Control of Fruit and Vegetables. control bodies. With 250 persons, consumers form the largest group; after all, we are all Allow me to briefly introduce myself. My consumers. However, it is good to know that name is Volker Raddatz, and I head the Di- also a representative of the associations of rectorate-General 4 of the BLE, as such being consumer protection has joined this meeting. responsible for authorisation and control pro- So all that are in a way concerned by the regu- cedures and the central information services lations next days’ information and discus- for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture sions will focus on are present in this place. and Consumer Protec-tion and its area of re- sponsibility. My tasks also include the quality The regulation will be a leitmotiv of the meet- control of plant products, and today it is my ing. Today the regulation’s basic elements honour and pleasure to guide you through will be dealt with. Tomorrow everything will the morning programme. turn on the general marketing standard, the text of which gives a harmless impression, I am glad that again so many of you have but which, as a matter of fact, proves to be accepted the invitation to this event and are rather tricky when a closer look is taken. It is here today. 250 participants from 23 coun- with good reason that this general market- tries are gathering in this hall. For this meet- ing standard has been notified to the WTO ing this is a record par-ticipation, which we by the Commission. During all three days the certainly owe to the event’s central topic of UNECE will, through their standards, provide „Marketing Standards being in Flux“. With the background, and we will hear about and a delegate from the Commission and rep- discuss not only the organisation and their resentatives coming from 17 countries, the working methods, but also the possible devel- European Union accounts for the biggest opment and significance of their standards. part, what, too, is a sign that the announced change in the field of marketing standards On each day some individual marketing in the EU has now brought those to Bonn standards will be slipped in. We will deal with that are chiefly con-cerned. The marketing sweet pears, sweet pepper and sweet pineap- standards are indispensable in international ples, thus stretching from fruits of temperate trade, which is demonstrated by our guests climes to those of the tropics and subtropics. from Chile, Morocco, Switzerland, South Africa, Turkey and the US. Beside this meet- In this moment we are excited to hear the ing, all country representatives in this hall talks, and I may here thank all lecturers for have two other important panels where having taken the time to prepare presenta- they can meet and talk about the marketing tions and, partly, undertook long journeys to standards, namely the UNECE and the OECD. provide this meet-ing with contents and con- Both organisa-tions are represented here and tribute interesting topics to our programme. will carefully analyse the ‘vibrations’ during The talk on „Private Stan-dards“, planned this meeting to take a stand in their practical for today, had to be removed from the pro- work accordingly. gramme at short notice as Mr Wunder-lich from UNCTAD couldn’t come to the meeting You all have come to Bonn to, first and fore- for health reasons. most, discuss and analyse the changes that were firmly established in EC legislation for In line with tradition this year‘s opening talk will be held by a representative of a Federal © BLE, IAT - 2009 Welcome address 5 State - I thus may ask Dr. Sutor to come up to the rostrum. Dr. Sutor heads the area of responsibility of the cereals, fruit, vegetables and potato sector of the Institute for Food Production and Market at the Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture in Munich. His professional background al-lows him to shed light particularly on the economic aspect of marketing standards and to famil- iarise us with the theme of „Marketing Stand- ards being in Flux“. © BLE, IAT - 2009 6 Marketing Standards being in Flux Dr. Peter Sutor Doing away from 1st July, 2009, with a ma- and vegetables that are produced in highly jor part of the specific European marketing developed countries only the production of standards for fruit and vegetables with the high-grade levels of quality covers costs. aim of simplifying both standards and con- trols gives rise to controversies in European Why then are standards losing impor- countries’ food industries. There is still no tance, or at least seem to lose it? agreement on whether this reform destroys existing structures and a coherent level of The term „quality“, and thus quality stand- quality, or whether it creates new opportuni- ards, is subject to continual change. There are ties. several reasons for this: Today, consumers’ and trade’s demands in terms of quality can only partly cover present standards. Besides product quality, which is first and foremost defined through standards, the ensuring of a high process quality has become the centre of attention. The latter is a consequence of a product liabil- ity that has been changed throughout Europe Figure 1: Imports into Germany in % of the usable production and according to which primary production from third countries or EU member states regarding fruit and vegetables is obligated to prove the harmlessness of its products - fruit and vegetables - in case of Fair trade with products requires generally doubt. A consequence of this provision, which accepted (quality) standards, which form the is monitored and supported especially by en- basis for production and provide sufficient vironmental organizations, is that admitted transparency, especially on an increasingly maximum residue limits, which have increas- globalised market. Moreover, standards ingly imposed themselves as an instrument lay the foundations of a sufficient level of for standardization, are complied with or, if competition and ensure that producers can possible, remained considerably below. access fruit and vegetables markets. For these Another consequence is the introduction of reasons standards for fruit and vegetables, quality systems that accompany the entire too, are a generally accepted part within production, harvesting, storage and market- the framework of the agreements of WTO ing process, and thus cover all aspects related Member States and the Member States of the to legal provisions on safety. In the context European Union. of these developments and qualities, which The 54 standards available today, which were in the last years improved, or at least didn’t developed by the UNECE, are virtually iden- deteriorate (cp. Figure 2) – certainly depend- tical with the current 36 and the ten future ing on weather conditions during the year –, special marketing standards of the European product quality has become somewhat less Union. important. Furthermore, standards form the basis for The globalisation strongly increasing in fruit price discovery by creating ways to objective- and vegetables trade is another reason for the ly assess quality, and pay for it accordingly.

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