Objective
As a daily consumption product in the Mediterranean area, olive oil production is an important agro-alimentary branch in Europe. About 9.7 million tons of olives are grown annually from which approximately 1.9 million tons of olive oil are produced in approximately 12,000 olive mills, most of them SMEs. This means that the EU is the biggest world producer of olive oil in the world (80% of the total), and employs more than 800,000 people in Europe. Due to its recognised beneficial health properties, the world olive oil consumption growth rate is estimated in 3,5% per year, which can be met with the optimised new plantations and irrigation technologies. However, the extremely polluting residues generated during olive oil production (about 5.8 million tons annually) pose serious problems to the olive mills, especially in the case of SME ones. Indeed, faced with increasingly restrictive environmental legislations and the need to be competitive against other non-European Mediterranean countries and new producers (for instance in Australia, USA or South America), many SME olive mills could be forced to close in the next years due to their inability to treat properly their residues.
Against this situation, the proposing lAGs and SME's intend to take an integrated and more proactive approach to the problem: the aim is to develop environmental quality standards (EQS) for olive oil production and to facilitate the necessary support to their members for meeting them. These EQS will guarantee compliance with European regulation and will be used also as a marketing tool in front of olive oil from non-European countries. For this purpose, a label identifying the olive oil produced under the EQS will be developed and granted to the olive mills meeting them. The main impacts of the proposed project are: it will to improve the environmental performance of olive mills, allowing them to comply with current and future legislation, it will increase their general knowledge...
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FP6-2002-SME-2
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ROMA
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MADRID
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ATHENS
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MOURA
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CHANIA (CRETE)
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ATHENS
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HERAKLION (CRETE)
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PUEBLA DE ALCOCER (BADAJOZ)
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LAKONIA
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COLTODINO DI FARA SABINA (RI)
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PANTALLA DI TODI (PG)
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BARCELONA
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ALBARRAQUE - SINTRA
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CARCABUEY (CORDOBA)
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DRESDEN
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VILA VERDE DE FICALHO
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BREMERHAVEN
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CITTA SANT'ANGELO
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MAROUSI
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ROMA
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HERAKLION (CRETE)
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