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How to access the fourth largest food market in the world

February 26, 2013

Jon Echanove: As former Director Corporate of the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENLEC)， Jon has been in charge of developing cooperation agreements with the main European trade partners, in particular China. From the negotiation of a cooperation agreement with the Standardisation Administration of China (SAC), to the contribution to the EU-China Regulatory Dialogue for Industrial products with participation of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ), or the design and implementation of the Seconded European Standardization Expert in China (SESEC) project, Jon has been permanently involved in the development of mutual market access between Europe and China.

Our Speaker

Who is who? & Who really matters? How easy it is? Can my product be exported into China? What should I know?

Registration of Exporters Packaging and Labeling Technical Requirements & Food Additives

EU SME Centre – Importing Wine

In today’s webinar

Who is Who?

Acronym Chinese Administration Scope

AQSIQ General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China

In charge of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit health quarantine, entry-exit animal and plant quarantine, import-export food safety, certification and accreditation, standardization, as well as market surveillance.

MOFCOM Ministry of Commerce To work out measures for the regulation of import and export commodities and processing trade, and compile catalogues of import and export commodities and technologies.

MOA Ministry of Agriculture Supervision of the planting, harvesting and processing of agricultural products and seeds

Who is Who?

Acronym Chinese Administration Scope

MOH Ministry of Health To supervise communicable disease prevention and treatment, food health, occupational, environmental, radiological, and school health. To formulate food and cosmetics quality control protocols and be responsible for their accreditation.

SAIC State Administration for Industry & Commerce

Protection of the legitimate rights and interests of businesses and consumers by carrying out regulations in the fields of enterprise registration, competition, consumer protection, trademark protection and combating economic illegalities

SFDA State Food and Drug Administration

Responsible for food hygiene licensing and food safety supervision at consumption stage

AQSIQ - Safety Law Policies & Regulations - Negotiation of Protocols - Registration of Exporters

CIQ at entry port - Commodity Inspection - Labelling approval

SAC Development/Publication of Technical Requirements – GB Standards

CNCA - Approval of Establishment - CCC Mark

How easy would it be?

Very Dangerous

Less Dangerous

• Live Plants & Animals

• Frozen food

• Processed food

• Pre-packaged food

• Bilateral Agreement: AQSIQ • Health Certificate: AQSIQ • Approval of Establishments: CNCA • Other ministries: MoA – animal feed

• Technical Requirements, e.g Wine & Food Additives • Labelling Requirements

http://www.eusmecentre.org.cn/content/food-and-beverages-technical-requirements-and-labelling

Meat Products http://jckspaqj.aqsiq.gov.cn/xz/spxz/200810/t20081028_95246.htm

Fruit http://dzwjyjgs.aqsiq.gov.cn/rdgz/201301/t20130124_340236.htm Grain http://dzwjyjgs.aqsiq.gov.cn/zwgk/zwjyjy/jjzwjcp/sg/zrmd/201111/t20111102_201744.htm Milk Products http://jckspaqj.aqsiq.gov.cn/xz/ggshrzpzsyb/ http://jckspaqj.aqsiq.gov.cn/xz/ggshrzpzsyb/200801/P020100201417033389855.pdf

What if a bilateral protocol is needed?

Meat

Milk

Some food products will require and Import License To be issued by MOFCOM Responsibility of the Importer Import License & Automatic Import Licence

http://www.eusmecentre.org.cn/content/exporting-goods-services-and-technology-chinese-market http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/article/b/c/201212/20121208496384.shtml www.mofcom.gov.cn/article/b/c/201212/20121208502201.shtml

Import License

Import License

Import License

From October 1st 2012 mandatory registration of all exporters and importers of food

http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/xxgk_13386/jlgg_12538/zjgg/2012/201205/t20120523_238992.htm REGISTRATION WEBSITE: http://ire.eciq.cn/ Applicants are requested to provide:

Exporter name Agent name (importer/distributor) Addresses Contact names Phone numbers Food category or categories Applicant’s name and phone number

Registration of Exporters

Registration of Exporters

Registration of Exporters

Registration of Exporters

Registration of Exporters

The European Union generally has equivalent or stricter packaging regulation than China

Inspection by CIQ together with commodity inspection Wood packaging. GB/T 1978-2005. High degree of

harmonisation with international standard ISPM-15 Food packaging materials in Food Safety Law http://www.eusmecentre.org.cn/content/packaging-china

Packaging Requirements

Labelling requirements

Labelling requirements: according to Chinese laws, regulations and

compulsory standards vary according to the type of imported product in Chinese !!! before entering China CIQ

(for some products both Chinese and English is required)

must be printed or fixed on the package

MAIN STANDARDS

GB 7718-2011 General STANDARD for the labelling of pre-packaged foods

GB 28050-2011 Nutrition Label Standards of Pre-packaged Food

GB10344-2005 General standard for the labelling of pre-packaged alcoholic beverage

GB 13432-2004 General Standards for Labelling of Pre-packaged Foods for Special Dietary Uses

Labelling requirements

The contents of the label must be in Chinese, with the exception of the trademark. Other languages can be used as long as there is also a

Chinese translation The font size of the foreign language cannot be bigger

than the Chinese characters, except for the trademark Pinyin can be used, but the font size cannot be higher than

the Chinese characters The Chinese characters, symbols and numbers cannot be

of a size smaller than 1.8 mm when the container surface is greater than 20cm2

Labelling requirements

IN THE PRODUCT STANDARDS e.g. Wine

Labelling requirements

Labelling Requirements

Pre-approval and pre-examination is not required for the labelling BUT additional compulsory product testing may be

Chinese CIQ will verify that labelling requirements are met as part of the process of quarantine inspection

If not applied, shipment batch will be defined as unqualified and sent to a designated warehouse (AQSIQ)

Cost can vary significantly: Customs charges as a % Fees = product inspection,

quarantine, label verification, etc.

Chinese regulations change! reconfirm labelling

requirements importer or agent!!!

Verification Cost

Mandatory Requirements are usually set out in National Standards GB 15037-2006 Wines GB23347-2009 Olive oil and olive-pomace oil GB5420-2010 National food safety standard Cheese GB 9678.2-2003 Hygienic STANDARD for chocolate GB 4927-2008 Beer GB 10765-2010 National food safety standard Infant

formula GB 10767-2010 National food safety standard

Older infants and young children formula

Technical Requirements

Chinese standardisation system

National standards (=GB Standards) Applied nationwide Unify requirements for product safety and quality Often harmonised with or int’l standards (ISO,

IEC, etc.) but can deviate 15% of GB standards are mandatory

Code Content GB Mandatory national standards GB/T Voluntary national standards GB/Z National guiding technical document

standards prefix GB followed by the standards code

Source: SAC

Where to find Chinese standards?

SAC: http://www.sac.gov.cn/sac_en/

English and Chinese interface

Search name, number, adopted international standard, and ICS code

Fairly user-friendly but no full text

Compulsory GB standards provided for free (in Chinese)

Agreement with some SDOs to sell translated GB standards

Competent Chinese ministry/organisation

No centralised database in English can be difficult to find most often require Chinese

language skills

http://www.cssn.net.cn/pages/nv_search/index.jsp

Searching national (GB) standards Searching professional standards

CHOCOLATE Chinese standard “GB 9678.2-2003 Hygienic

standard for chocolate”, indicates the maximum quantity of copper allowed

Technical Requirements

European producers will have little difficulty in complying with China’s food additive requirements including labelling

Permitted Chinese food additives are listed in the regulation GB 2760-2011and

The names of food additives must be consistent with GB 2760 or GB 14880 or notices issued by the Ministry of Health providing updates

http://www.eusmecentre.org.cn/content/food-additives-china

Food Additives

EU SME Centre – Importing Wine

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