Spain: Asaja Córdoba celebrates that Agriculture takes into account its claims about olive oil quality standard

Published Sep 1, 2021

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Spain has approved a new quality standard for olive oil, addressing concerns raised by Asaja Córdoba about the definition of harvester and the use of plastic containers. The final decree allows for diversity in oil mill activities and bans the use of certain terms like 'virgin' and 'extra virgin' for any vegetable fat other than olive oil. It also prohibits mixing olive oil with other oils and requires non-refillable containers for extra virgin olive oil consumed in restaurants and communities. Asaja Córdoba, along with other sector representatives, generally supports the decree, praising its efforts to improve quality, traceability, and consumer protection, and to modernize olive oil industry standards.

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CÓRDOBA, Sep 1 (EUROPA PRESS) - The president of Asaja Córdoba, Ignacio Fernández de Mesa, has positively valued that the Ministry of Agriculture has taken into account, in Royal Decree 760/2021 approved by the Council of Ministers of August 31, the allegations presented by the entity regarding the quality standard for olive oil. As indicated by the organization in a note, on June 26, 2020 it presented allegations to the first draft of the Royal Decree on the Quality Standard of Olive Oil and Olive Pomace in relation to the definition of harvester and the use of containers of plastic. Thus, with the change in the definition of harvester, "the worrying fiscal consequences that would have de facto supposed the expulsion of the special VAT regime for agriculture and, in many cases, the expulsion of the module regime are corrected." "With the elimination of the initial intention to ban plastic containers, a demand from the sector is met that avoids an increase in the price of the ...

Source: europapress