BOTSWANA PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Course description

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

• The processed meat market in Botswana

• The processed meat market in Europe

• Classification of meat products

• Access to the EU market

• Legal must

  • Food safety: Traceability, hygiene and control

  • Food contamination

  • Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs)

  • Sanitary and Phytosanitary requirements

  • Labelling

  • Packaging

• Common buyers requirements

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

  • Corporate responsibility

• Niche markets

  • Organic

• EU tariffs for processed meat products

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

  • EPA Rules of origin for processed meat

• Statistics and market research online tools

• Useful contacts