Post date: 2024-06-16 10:48:16
With this purpose, a new day of socialization was carried out regarding the scope of the norm that will come into force from January 1, 2025, for the export of products such as coffee, cocoa, livestock, oil palm, soybeans, and Rubber, to the European Union.
2024-06-16 10:48:16
The Ministry of Agriculture and Mining led the exercise of socialization of Regulation 1115 EUDR, which aims to require that all agricultural products, including coffee, that enter the European market are free of deforestation and forest degradation processes.
In this exercise developed within the framework of the pilot promoted by the European Union, the Government of Huila, and the National Federation of Coffee Growers for the implementation of the standard, coffee growing actors from the north of the department participated, including producers, marketers, processors, exporters. , academia, among other allies.
For the secretary of agriculture and mining of Huila, Engineer Carlos Alberto Cuéllar Medina, the purpose of this articulated dissemination work regarding regulation 1115 EUDR, is to allow sustainable production, allow Huila coffee to enter the European market, and shield the activity. most important productive for the department such as coffee growing.
“We are working very hard from the departmental government with the help of all our allies, to comply with the requirements of the standard and guarantee that our coffee continues to reach the European Union market without problems as a first step, but also being clear that it will surely to be a requirement that is going to become global, and therefore we must be at the forefront to protect our coffee growers and our main export item, which is coffee, a job generator. That is why for the government of Dr. Rodrigo Villalba it is very important to have this important process of training, formation, institutional coordination, to ensure that in the coffee sector we have an export guarantee, which is what we seek for our producers,” said the Secretary of agriculture.
It should be remembered that regulation 1115 EUDR prohibits the entry of agricultural products and by-products into the European market, which have been achieved by generating processes of deforestation or forest degradation after 2020, so it will be a requirement for exporting companies to review traceability processes. , and other requirements as established by due diligence.
This series of measures issued by the European Union, and mandatory for those who export to member countries of the organization, seek to reduce and mitigate the impact of climate change, protect ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as allow adequate management of the resource. water, addressing the components of human rights, environment, and zero deforestation.
