Pierre d'Arudy GI, specifications hier des charges IG Pierre d’Arudy 1. ------IND- 2019 0568 F-- EN- ------ 20191217 --- --- PROJET PIERRE D’ARUDY GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION ‘ARUDY, a soul engraved in stone’ Claude Aussant, Mayor of Arudy Specifications p. 1 Pierre d'Arudy GI, specifications hier des charges IG Pierre d’Arudy Table of contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4 I. Name .................................................................................................................................................... 6 II. Product concerned .............................................................................................................................. 6 A. Product description ..................................................................................................................... 6 B. Products covered ......................................................................................................................... 8 III. Demarcation of the geographical area or associated specific place .................................................. 8 IV. The quality, reputation, traditional knowledge or other characteristics possessed by the product in question is essentially attributable to its geographical area or specific place ...................................... 15 A. Specificity of the geographical area .......................................................................................... 15 1. Natural factors ...................................................................................................................... 15 2. Human factors ....................................................................................................................... 19 B. Product reputation .................................................................................................................... 29 C. The causal link of Arudy Stone .................................................................................................. 31 V. Description of the creation, production and transformation process, the production or transformation operations which must take place in the geographical area or associated specific place, and those guaranteeing the characteristics mentioned in point 4 ............................................ 31 VI. The identity of the Defence and Management Organisation, its statutes, the list of its initial operators and funding methods for their participation ........................................................................ 37 VII. The procedures and frequencies for the inspections, performed by the bodies mentioned in Article L721-8 and the arrangements for financing these inspections. These procedures notably include the product inspection points .................................................................................................. 38 A. Operator certification ................................................................................................................ 38 1. Operator identification, initial evaluation and certification decision ................................ 38 2. Managing changes with consequences for the certification................................................. 39 3. Monitoring procedures for certified operators ..................................................................... 40 B. Frequencies of external inspections for certified operators ..................................................... 40 C. Assessment procedures and methods for certified operators: detailed tables of the inspection plan (self-inspection and external inspection) .................................................................................. 41 1. Stone extraction .................................................................................................................... 42 2. Stone dressing ....................................................................................................................... 43 3. Customer claims management .............................................................................................. 45 VIII. Reporting or record-keeping requirements that operators must meet to allow verification of compliance with the specifications ....................................................................................................... 46 p. 2 Pierre d'Arudy GI, specifications hier des charges IG Pierre d’Arudy IX. Procedures for serving formal notice and excluding operators in the event of non-compliance with the specifications ................................................................................................................................... 46 A. General elements ...................................................................................................................... 46 B. Points system for external breaches ......................................................................................... 47 C. Management of breaches ......................................................................................................... 48 D. Reduction, termination, suspension or withdrawal of operators’ certification ....................... 49 X. Provisional funding of the Defence and Management Organisation ................................................ 49 XI. Specific labelling requirements ........................................................................................................ 49 XII. Inspection by the DMO.................................................................................................................... 50 A. Inspection procedures ............................................................................................................... 50 B. Inspection frequency ................................................................................................................. 50 XII. Annexes ........................................................................................................................................... 50 Annex 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................... 51 Annex 2 ILLUSTRATIONS .................................................................................................................... 54 Annex 3: STATUTES OF THE ASSOCIATION PIERRES NATURELLES NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE .............. 55 p. 3 Pierre d'Arudy GI, specifications hier des charges IG Pierre d’Arudy INTRODUCTION 1. Arudy Stone ‘ARUDY, a soul engraved in stone. It is above all a meeting of men, those of yesterday and today. The former worked the stone, and to this day quarry operators and stonemasons are the new generations inheriting and passing on the heritage for a real, viable, promising but fragile economy. To protect our abused Pierre for purely greedy, economic interests, to honour our past and not forget where we come from, to defend our Stone, which has participated and still participates in the wealth of our Commune, in the construction and the ornaments of Béarn and many other cities in France and around the world; to defend the stone is to love it! The Commune of Arudy is proud to participate in the Geographical Indication project and would like to thank all associated professionals, associations, UNICEM and all of the resources and records workers who work, defend and honour the endemic stone of Arudy ...its history and its future.’ Claude AUSSANT, Mayor of Arudy - (15 July 2019) 2. The stone industry in the Pyrenees Project leader: l’Association Pierres Naturelles Nouvelle-Aquitaine (the Nouvelle-Aquitaine natural stone association) seeks recognition as the Defence and Management Organisation (DMO) for the Pierre d’Arudy Geographical Indication. About 15 companies are involved in extracting and processing Pierre d’Arudy within the geographical area concerned. These are SMEs or craftspeople representing around 50 jobs for a turnover of more than EUR 7 000 000, often located in rural areas. Pierre d’Arudy is sold in France and abroad. Strengths/Weaknesses STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES/CONSTRAINTS Rare product Access to authorisations to operate quarries Construction and preservation of built Limited operational capacity/availability of heritage accessible resources Specific characteristics of Arudy marbled Small structures with strong stresses stone Stone that can be used in building materials Foreign competition, especially on prices Product origin The marbled stone industry in the Pyrenees basin consists of a network of small- and medium-sized family undertakings either involved only in extracting, or dressing local stone, or in the combined activity of extracting and dressing. p. 4 Pierre d'Arudy GI, specifications hier des charges IG Pierre d’Arudy Source: Carrière Laplace 3. The draft geographical indication The natural stone undertakings of south-west France and their consumers face the same issues, those of a muddled market that brings together products at odds with one another qualitatively, but sometimes identified under the same geographical name. These common-law protective rules are not satisfactory in terms of properly protecting undertakings working Arudy stone, as they do not cover the specific nature of these materials and the knowledge pertaining to them or the issue of heritage. It is therefore important to put in place an appropriate tool for this type of product, with which to protect and defend Pierre