Stefano VACCARI

37 Pages·2015·2.99 MB·English

by  Vaccari Stefano

The Department of Central Inspectorate for fraud repression and quality
safeguarding of agri-food products

Protection of PDO and PGI by “ex officio system”
in EU and on the WEB:

the Italian experience

Stefano Vaccari

1 OTTOBRE 2015
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A few words about us

ICQRF
is an Italian acronym which identifies the Department of Central
Inspectorate for fraud repression and quality safeguarding of agrifood products
The complexity of this name reflects the wide range of responsibility in charge to
ICQRF that is the Law Enforcement Body of the MiPAAF (Italian Ministry of Agriculture,
Foodstuff and Forestry Policies) responsible for preventing and repressing any breach of
European and Italian laws relating to:
- agri-foodstuffs productions, (from farming to food processing industries as well as at
their wholesale and retail stage);
- farm supply products (seeds, feed, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers and plant
growth products).
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…..the ICQRF is in charge of:
Carring out Official Controls according to (EC) Reg. No. 882/2004
(by means Inspections, Chemical Analyses and, if the case,
working as Police under the coordination of a Public Prosecutor).
Imposing monetary or other sanctions as result of inspection or
analyses findings
ICQRF
Authorizing private or public control bodies to the certification of
foostuffs as PDO, PGI and Organic.
Supervising the activities of the aforementioned private or public
control bodies.
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An overview
on ICQRF Organisation
Amm. centrale
ICQRF Lombardia
Uffici territoriali
Milano e Brescia
Conegliano/Susegana Laboratori
ICQRF Nord -Ovest Lab
Head of of ICQRF Sede distaccata di Catania
Torino, Asti e Genova ICQRF Nord -Est
Lab Susegana, Verona, Udine e S. Michele a/A
At central level, the Department
Modena ICQRF E. Romagna e Marche
Lab
consists of two Directorates- Bologna, Modena e Ancona
General.
ICQRF Toscana e Umbria
Firenze, Pisa e Perugia
Perugia
Lab
At local level, it has 10
decentralised inspection offices
ICQRF Italia centrale Lab ICQRF Italia sud -est
and 19 local units. Roma e Pescara Roma Bari, Lecce, Potenza e Campobasso
Laboratorio Centrale

ICQRF Italia meridionale
Lab
Napoli , Salerno , Cosenza e Lamezia T.
ICQRF has also its own
Salerno
laboratories network, comprising 6 ICQRF Sardegna
Cagliari e Sassari
chemical laboratories, all EU
ICQRF Sicilia
accreditated
Palermo e Catania
Catania
Lab
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THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF ICQRF

The Official Controls carried out by ICQRF (by means Inspections, Chemical Analyses
and, if the case, working as Police under the coordination of a Public Prosecutor)
are divided into two main groups:
a) Controls on requirements as to
b) Controls on requirements as to the
the nature and/or composition of
regulated quality produtions such as
agri-foodstuffs and farm supply
PDOs, PGIs, Organics, mainly intended
products, mainly intended against
against………
……..
- any direct or indirect commercial use of that
protected name in so far as such use exploits
……the adulterations, the
sophistications, the counterfaiting and the reputation of a designation of origin or a
frauds. geographical indication.
- also any misuse, imitation or evocation, and

so on………
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THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF ICQRF #2

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ICQRF activity from January – to September 2015
Inspection activity

Controls (no.) 22.874

15.801
Controlled Operators/Premises (no.)
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3.260
i irregular (no.)
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c
A 20,6
irregular (%)

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Controlled products (no.) 33.924
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t
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p
4.871
s irregular (no.)
n
I
14,4
irregular (%)
Samples drawn (no.) 6.266
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THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF ICQRF #3

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ICQRF activity from January – to September 2015
Analytical Activity

Analysed Samples (no.) 6.029

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t v 590
y Irregular Samples (no.)
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n A
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9,8
Irregular Samples (%)
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THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF ICQRF #4

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ICQRF activity from January – to September 2015
Results

Criminal Reports (no.) 111
Administrative Notifications (no.) 2.571

s
t
l
u Formal notices (no.) 1.752
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Seizures (no.) 482
Seizures Value (million euro) 66,5
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THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF ICQRF #5

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ICQRF activity from January – to September 2015
Surveillance or supervision on activities of the
private or public control bodies

47
Control Bodies supervised (no.)
Control Bodies on PDO and PGI
31
wines
Control Bodies on PDO and PGI
8
non wines

Control Bodies on Organic
8
farming products

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THE NEW RESPONSIBILITIES OF ICQRF

As from 2014 ICQRF has seen its role incre ased as a result of new provisions

and has strengthened its control activities aiming at protecting our food and

agricultural quality products in the EU and in the Word, by contrasting both
frauds and the so-called “Italian sounding”.

HOW?
Cooperating
with
alibaba

Unit ex officio Italian liaison
Cooperating with
Protection body
ebay
(EU)Reg. No. 1151/2012 (EC) Reg. No. 555/2008
Wine products

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