Royal FloraHolland will need phase environmental registration and certification for all growers ( member and non - members ) provide flowers and plant to the marketplace . By 2 February 2025 at the latest , all provider must be in possession of a market - compliant environmental certificate . This is a milepost in making the sphere more sustainable .
The Management Board of Royal FloraHolland has taken this decision on the basis of a good word made by the Members ' Council . CEO Steven van Schilfgaarde excuse : " Sustainability is one of the pillars of Royal FloraHolland ’s strategy . It offer our extremity opportunities to strengthen their competitive position and helps to make our marketplace and sphere future - proof . The market demands transparency in relation to output and operations . "
Gradual introductionThe required environmental security will be put in bit by bit . The first step is digital environmental enrolment for all marketplace suppliers by 9 December 2024 at the tardy . later , after 28 April 2025 , have a market - compliant environmental certificate will be made required for all provider to Royal FloraHolland . The third step will be to see to it that cultivator meet all FSI sustainability standard congeal in the floriculture industry . Thus , not only in the environmental battlefield , but also with respect to Good Agricultural Practices ( GAP ) and in the social subject field . No day of the month has currently been correct for this step . For this last whole step , Royal FloraHolland will start a dialogue with FSI about the criterion that will implement to agriculturalist after 2020 . The ambition is to take on all FSI standards in the long term .
In close collaboration between the Sustainability Leading Team - lie in of members of Royal FloraHolland - and the Sustainable Development and Quality team , an approach has been developed lead to environmental registration and certificate . This approach stem from member reference sessions organised in 2018 and 2019 . The Management Board has subsequently enquire the Members ' Council for advice regarding the approaching .
PreconditionsThe Members ' Council has recommended paying extra attention to the environmental registration and certification of outside members . This advice has been accept by Royal FloraHolland ’s Management Board , as well as the advice to take the following four preconditions into chronicle :
EnforcementRoyal FloraHolland intend to enforce this on growers and buyers . The Sustainability Leading Team has been instructed by the Members ' Council to come up with options for effective enforcement with like deadlines . Based on the advice of the Leading Team , the Management Board will make further decisions about the effectuation of the enforcement , while taking into account the progress of the effectuation of the precondition .
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