On Monday and Tuesday, EUCOFEL attends the Conference “CAP post-2013", organised by DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission.
19 July: WORKSHOP 4 - Quality, diversity, health
20 July: WORKSHOP 8 - The future role of the CAP in promoting the quality and diversity of food supply. CAP post-2013
For more information about the programme please visit Programme

The Commission informed of the links to EU websites relevant for SME internationalisation.
All Market Access Partners (EU Member States and business organisations) are encouraged
to be more active in awareness' raising of existing tools. Free on-line information for SMEs
is available a click away but only few SMEs know that they exist.
o MADB: Exporter guide with tariffs, import formalities, statistics, trade barriers
and links. Valuable for basic market studies. See MADB
o European Small Business Portal – Tool to get all relevant EU Information for
SMEs and links. See EU small Business Portal
o Your Europe – Business: Comprehensive information of business services at EU
and Member States level and links. See Your Europe-Business

Bruxelles, le 24 juin 2010 IP/10/826
La sécurité des aliments s'est encore améliorée cette année dans l'Union européenne, en partie grâce au retrait du marché de pesticides nocifs et au renforcement des contrôles aux frontières de l'Union. Depuis janvier dernier, l'UE a essentiellement établi un poste frontière commun pour certains fruits et légumes. Pour ces produits importés, un nouveau régime a été mis en place, prévoyant le contrôle des lots à la frontière avant leur entrée dans l'Union.
Depuis la mise en place de ce régime en janvier dernier, près de 13 600 lots de fruits et légumes importés ont été contrôlés. Dix pour cent de ces produits ont été testés et 10 % des produits testés se sont révélés non conformes aux exigences de sécurité applicables dans l'UE.
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Revised DRAFT 27/04/10. The guidelines can also provide specific recommendations for schemes in different policy areas. These can be developed in a modular way on a case-by-case basis, if and when needed. Developing such guidelines in a defined policy area presents a "light" alternative to the development of new EU schemes or new legislation. For each policy area, specific recommendations should take into account existing legislation, international standards and be based on a consultation of stakeholders.
Examples of policy areas for which specific guidelines could be developed in the future are:
- Geographical origin (other than the EU PDO/PGI schemes)
- Traditional/artisanal product (other than the EU TSG scheme)
- Organoleptic quality
- Animal welfare
- Fair trade
- Environmental claims
- Carbon footprint labelling
- Sustainable use of water resources
- Sustainable fisheries / aquaculture
Source: DG AGRI

Commission Regulation (EU) No 494/2010 of 25 May 2010 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 mentioned that in the row for CN code 0803 00 19 for ‘Bananas, other than plantains, fresh’, the entry in column 3 (Conventional rate of duty) is replaced by ‘148 €/1 000 kg/net’.
Article 2 - In Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 948/2009, in the row for CN code 0803 00 19 for ‘Bananas, other than plantains, fresh’ the entry in column 3 (Conventional rate of duty) is replaced by ‘148 €/1 000 kg/net’.
Article 3 - This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 1 shall apply from 15 December 2009.
Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2010.
Banana rate