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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.
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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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