The new EU regulation may jeopardize the supply of coffee to Germany. This is reported by “Bild in Russian”.
It is about the document, which should come into force from the beginning of next year. According to it, companies will have to prove that for the production of their products were not cut down or damaged forests. This applies both to raw materials such as cocoa and coffee beans and to certain products made from them, including chocolate.
Germany is threatened by a lack of supply on the German and European coffee markets, and coffee bean prices are likely to rise significantly, the German Coffee Association said. (The European Commission, for its part, says the ruling will not lead to higher food prices.)
“Currently, only about 20 per cent of farmers meet all the requirements listed,” says Holger Preibisch, managing director of the German Coffee Association.
He is calling for the document to be delayed or millions of coffee farmers around the world will be jeopardized.
Major coffee producers, including Alois Dallmayr KG, are also criticizing the new EU regulation. Johannes Dengler, a member of the company’s board of management, calls it a huge administrative burden for producers.
Germany is currently the world’s second largest coffee importer after the United States, with 1.1 million tons of coffee shipped to the Federal Republic of Germany per year. Most of the beans come from Brazil (30 per cent) and Vietnam (20 per cent).
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