The 2017 edition of Rules and Practices of the Inter-European Trade in Potatoes (RUCIP) which becomes effective as of January 1 regulates the conditions for trading for potato seeds, new potatoes, ware potatoes, industrial potatoes for processing into products for human consumption and industrial potatoes destined for the production of alcohol or animal feed.

The new edition stipulates the transfer of the RUCIP European Committee secretariat from Paris to Brussels.

The RUCIP European Committee, composed of the European associations Europatat (Potato Trade), EUPPA (Potato Processing) and Intercoop Europe (Cooperatives), has validated in November 2016 the new version, more commonly known as “RUCIP 2017”.

“The transfer of the European secretariat from Paris to Brussels and the possibility to create European lists of Experts and Arbitrators for the countries who do not have a National RUCIP secretariat were the basis of the new version (RUCIP 2017) coming into force on 1 January 2017”, according to the document.

The economic evolution of Europe requires an on-going adaptation of trading behavior and in particular of the Rules and Practices of the potato sector.

The most recent edition – RUCIP 2017 – also focuses on the possibility to create European lists of Experts and Arbitrators for the countries that do not have a National RUCIP secretariat.