The workshop took place on the 30 October 2016 in Beijing, ahead of the annual China Fruit and Vegetable Fair.

The aim of the workshop has been to create a common understanding of each other’s market access conditions with regard to plant health, food safety and quality, customs and general market dynamics and conditions.

To enable an all-encompassing review of the current market dynamics, the agenda has been designed with speakers from both the public and the private sectors. The perspective of the Chinese fruit and vegetable sector have been presented by Ge Zhirong, President of CIQA, Wu Hao, Director at AQSIQ and Li Li from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.

The European perspective has been presented by Jerome Lepeintre, the Minister Counsellor for Health and Food Safety at the Delegation of the EU to China and Mongolia, as well as Freshfel General Delegate Philippe Binard and trade policy advisor Nelli Hajdu.

The meeting gave further opportunity to Freshfel members from various EU-MS as well as to Chinese exporters to present best practices as well as to discuss current challenges with regard to mutual market access conditions.

Source: Freshfel