INTERNATIONAL OLIVE OIL AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS FOCUS ON NEW MEMBERS, STANDARDS
February 2nd, 2014
NEGOTIATIONS for a renewed International Agreement on Olive Oil are intensifying in Madrid. The agreement runs out at the end of this year and its member jurisdictions, of which the European Union (EU) is the biggest, are working to forge a new agreement by December.The current version of the agreement, which came into force in 2005 and replaced a 1986 agreement, is at the heart of the cooperation between big olive oil producing regions, such as the EU, north Africa and the Levant.The Madrid-based International Olive Council (IOC), which is responsible for ...
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