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live oil production in the EU is big business. Out of the three million tonnes produced globally per-year, two-thirds are produced on the continent. The major players being Spain, which contributes 66% of the EU’s output, Italy at 15%, Greece at 13% and Portugal producing 5%, totalling around 570,000t exported annually. Meanwhile, the EU’s latest regulations regarding olive oil quality and labelling came into force in


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Recent changes to the EU’s regulatory framework to improve effi ciency and create a more homogenous olive oil market have meant introducing new quality and labelling regulations. Martin Morris speaks to Giuseppe Trapani, managing director of OGGLIO UK, and Yacine Amor, managing director of the Artisan Olive Oil Company, to fi nd out how the new measures will impact the wider market.


November 2022 and are among the main items covered by the Delegated Regulation 2022/2104 and the Implementing Regulation 2022/2105. Yet, as is often the case with such initiatives, more work is needed to fill in perceived policy gaps, not least looking at the various impacts on the internal and external EU markets in the form of tariffs, fraud/misrepresentation prevention and so on. Drilling down through the regulations, there are now streamlined provisions


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