BOTSWANA PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Course description

This course provides an overview of the things you have to think about before exporting marula to the EU. It provides with technical presentations to understand the EU requirements, documents needed and tariffs applied. It includes:

• The marula market in Botswana

• The gourmet market in Europe

• Classification of marula products

• Access to the EU market

• Legal must

  • Food safety: Traceability, hygiene and control

  • Food contamination

  • Sanitary and Phytosanitary requirements

  • Labelling

  • Packaging

• Common buyers requirements

  • Food Safety certifications (BRC, IFS, FSSC22000, GFSI,SQF)

  • Corporate responsibility

• Niche markets

  • Organic

  • Fair Trade

• EU tariffs for processed marula products

• Exporting processed marula from Botswana with the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement

  • EPA Rules of origin for processed marula

• Statistics and market research online tools

• Useful contacts