Importing Organic Hops is specific. It's not like importing tires, importing sugar or even sugar, or even importing organic sugar: organic hops have their own specific requirements. We explain!
There are 3 fundamental points: what concerns the hops, what concerns the organic the distributor.
Concerning hops
As you may know, in order to be As you probably know, in order to be placed on the market, a hop (in cones or pellets) must meet certain specifications. These include the amount of seeds the hop contains, the amount of organic debris (branches, leaves) organic debris (branches, leaves), its moisture content, etc.
A hop producer who wishes to sell hops rather than use them for his own consumption must have them analysed and obtain a certificate - nothing to do here with Organic, conventional hops are subject to the same requirement - attesting that they meet the quality requirements to be sold as hops. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, hops must be "Certified Hops" in order to be marketed!
Therefore, when you buy hops from abroad, you must be able to certify that the hops you import meet the quality criteria required in the EU. To do this, approved bodies issue a CERTIFICATE OF EQUIVALENCE. This document is essential for importing hops into the Community (i.e. the EU) and the number of this document must be indicated on your invoice when you buy hops. TRA-CA-BI-LI-TE! -- So for every hop import (Organicor not), an Attestation of Equivalence
On the invoices we issue, you will find the number of the Certificate of Equivalence that has been issued for each imported hop.
Regarding the Organic
It's important even if not all countries have exactly the same specifications for organic the same specifications for organic farming, there are international agreements that that organic products from certain countries can be sold as organic in the rest of the world. compliance and traceability requirements - can be sold as organic in the EU. Community.
As in Europe, Organic Hops producers abroad must be certified organic - in this case, an organic certificate - which is issued following analysis of their production.
As far as we are concerned, these Organiccertificates must be issued by an EU-recognised body. In other words, certain organisations may be authorised to issue certificates Organicin their country but if they are not legitimate in the EU, this is not compliant for imports. You must have your papers and the right ones, TRA-CA-BI-LI-TE! -- If the certificates Organicare issued by recognised organisations in the EU, yes Organicfrom most countries of the world can be sold as Organicin the EU
We check the Organiccertificates of our suppliers BEFORE purchasing, and they are also checked by our certification body every timeHOPSTORE is checked.
Concerning the distributor
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Not everyone is allowed to import organic agri-foodstuffs into the EU as they wish. To do so, you need to be recognized 1. as a legitimate player in the EU, responsible for verifying, collecting and archiving all the documentation required for import; 2. as a legitimate player in the organic sector, certified organic. TRA-CA-BI-LI-TE! -- To import Organic Hops into the EU, you must have obtained authorization to do so.
HOPSTORE is authorized to import organic hops into Europe. We ourselves import the Organic Hops US and NZ hops that we offer in our boutique.
In brief
COMPLIANCE & TRACEABILITY are the key words that govern the import of organic hops into Europe. Your supplier is the guarantor of a proper import into the Community AND of the traceability Organicof the hops he offers you.
It is your supplier's responsibility to ensure that no documents are missing, that no documents have been issued by bodies not recognized in the EU, that all certificates are up to date, and so on. Otherwise, if anything is found to be non-compliant at any time - on entry into the EU in particular, or worse, once the goods have been sold - it's your supplier who will be held responsible, and this is not without consequences. If it's a defect linked to the import procedure, the products shouldn't even have been put on the market; if it's an organic defect, the hops may simply be downgraded. So, as you yourself are dependent for your own certificates on the certificates of your suppliers (themselves dependent on the certificates of theirs.... TRA-CA-BI-LI-TE), the consequences for your business are not to be overlooked. -- Import your Organic Hops via trusted distributors
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