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International Grain Trade Coalition (IGTC) SACOTA Annual General Meeting 10 October, 2018

Global context: Grain trade increasingly important 2

The IGTC’s overarching objective is to achieve a market and regulatory environment supportive of trade that avoids disruptions in the international trade of grain, oilseeds, pulses and derived products. www.igtcglobal.org Secretariat@igtcglobal.org +41 78 932 96 18

25 associations, 8000 businesses 85 countries COCERAL RGU CGC NAEGA, NCGA, GAFTA UGA NGFA, USGC, USW, CRA, Geneva, Switzerland CNFA, CNAGS, USSEC Eastern CGBA Africa , Grain ANEC Council GTA CAPECO ANIAME, APPAMEX SOPA, SEA CIARA-CEC SACOTA

Year-on-year evolution: Policy teams & working groups (2016-2018) 45 41 40 35 35 NUMBER OF PEOPLE SIGNED UP 31 31 30 27 25 20 14 14 15 13 10 10 7 5 0 0 Cartagena Biosafety Plant Breeding Low Level Presence Maximum Residue Levels Phytosanitary control - Electronic Trading Protocol Innovation ISPM Documentation Jan-16 Jun-16 Jan-17 Jun-17 Jan-18 Jun-18 6

Number of staff from member associations on Policy Teams Jan 2018 Jan 2017 APPAMEX CAPECO CGC CIARA-CEC COCERAL EAGC Gafta GTA APPAMEX CAPECO CGC COCERAL NAEGA NCGA NGFA RGU Gafta GTA NAEGA NGFA SACOTA UGA US Grains Cl USSEC RGU US Grains Cl USSEC US Wheat 7 US Wheat

Work with international partners South Africa is present in all of the following venues! • Cartagena Biosafety Protocol (171 Parties) • UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (194 governments) • International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) (183 governments) • World Customs Organization (WCO) (180 governments) • World Trade Organization (WTO) (162 governments) • International Grains Council (IGC) (55 governments) • Global Low Level Presence Initiative (GLI) (15 governments)

2018 September 27-28 2018 GLI meeting Natal, Brazil September 26-27 WTO Agriculture Committee (closed) Geneva, Switzerland October 1-5 FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG) FAO, Rome, Italy October 2-4 WTO Public Forum WTO, Geneva, Switzerland IPPC Focus Group on Commodity and October 3-5 FAO, Rome, Italy Pathways Standards October 15-20 UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) FAO, Rome, Italy October 20 ISF-IGTC in-person meeting Berlin, Germany October 31-November 1 WTO SPS Committee (closed) Geneva, Switzerland November 17-29 COP 14 – CBD and COP-MOP 9 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt November 19-23 IPPC Standards Committee (closed) FAO, Rome, Italy November 21-22 WTO Agriculture Committee (closed) Geneva, Switzerland FAO International Symposium on Agricultural November 21-23 Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the FAO, Rome, Italy potential of agricultural innovation IGTC General Assembly 2018 and related November 27-29 Beijing, China outreach meetings Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, December 2-4 NGFA Country Elevator Conference MO, USA December 4 International Grains Council 48th Session Paris, France December 14 IGTC Management Council Virtual 9

Features of the global grain trade

Policy opportunities in 2018 Crop protection product Harmonisation of phytosanitary approvals & residue measures control methods; UN International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Innovation in electronic trading documentation Cartagena Biosafety Protocol Plant Breeding Innovation Low Level Presence

What is the ePhyto Solution? GeNS Generic ePhyto National System Hub Centralized web-based System to facilitate system to allow countries without their own systems to exchange of ePhytos produce, send and receive between NPPOs ePhytos in the XML format through the hub

What is the ePhyto Solution? GeNS Generic ePhyto National System Hub Centralized web-based System to facilitate system to allow countries without their own systems to exchange of ePhytos produce, send and receive between NPPOs ePhytos in the XML format through the hub

Hub administration portal – exporting NPPO (US) “Pending delivery” “Delivered”

Paper Rep epresentations US AR AR

Strategy for industry ePhyto case studies Agreed by IPPC and industry partners in joint “Terms of Reference” 1. Select a few companies trading between hub countries Side by side shipments with paper and with electronic certificates • Use anecdotal information on the benchmark state • 2. Track the shipments and identify anecdotal info on: Time/efficiency • Impacts on business operations • Other issues •

IGTC mensagens chaves ePhyto Solution (v.2018) IGTC continua apoiando a adoção de um modelo de troca de • ePhyto em pleno funcionamento , com o envolvimento proativo de toda a cadeia de fornecimento e sem requisitos para a manutenção de certificados em papel. Será crucial que os operadores do setor privado continuem • práticas de comércio eficientes e bem estabelecidas que atualmente sustentam a cadeia de fornecimento. Isso inclui partes comerciais que tenham um nível apropriado de controle sobre a liberação de um certificado phyto antes de ser apresentado a um importador. IGTC apóia o uso do esquema de mensagem harmonizado • definido no ePhyto Hub e incentiva os governos, particularmente aqueles de importância estratégica para a indústria de grãos, a apoiar a implementação o mais rápido possível. IGTC apela ao apoio do governo para “ estudos de caso da • indústria ”, o que acabará por contribuir para uma análise reforçada de custo-benefício e interoperabilidade com o setor. Independentemente do modelo de financiamento, a IGTC • recomenda que a indústria contribua financeiramente apenas quando o sistema de trabalho estiver em funcionamento . 21

2.2.1 Cartagena Biosafety Protocol 22

COP 14 – Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt COP-MOP 9 on the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol Deadline for registrations for organizations – governmental and non-governmental: 31 October 2018 Preparation of IGTC talking points? 23

• Transboundary movement of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) • Draft training manual on detection and sampling: irrelevant, incomplete, undermines Art. 17 sovereign processes and import checks UTB • 2018 workshops on detection manual: Francophone Africa, Anglophone Africa, and Asia- Pacific “Monitoring in the Context of Risk Assessment“ - permanent and broad monitoring of non- • specified LMOs under the precautionary principle? Synthetic biology • Art. 15 Not in the CBP (yet?) ➢ No agreed definition (yet?) ➢ Risk Intersessional AHTEG reports: Most organisms currently under development using ➢ Assessment synthetic biology fall under the definition of LMOs as per CBP Special interest groups ➢ Global Industry Coalition and certain governments say this is being pushed without broad ➢ support from Parties. NKL Supp. • Into force on March 5 th with 41 Parties (Mexico, EU, India, Japan, Uganda) Protocol • Addressed as part of the CBP but likely to be a “COP - MOP 1” in 2020 • IGTC: important not to have socio economic considerations merged with risk assessment or Art. 26 liability and redress issues SEC • GIC: huge concerns about discriminatory, non-scientific decision making

Examples of text in the sampling and detection manual – Art. 17 Applies to all LMOs , not only those “likely to have significant adverse effects on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity” Monitoring : Possible targets include the monitoring of (transboundary) movements of authorised LMOs Assumes that emergency measures are needed for LMOs that have already been through appropriate risk assessments, etc. Monitoring : Maintaining a paper trail of any (trans-boundary) movement of Potentially undermines the material that could be LMO or contain validity of national risk (traces of) LMOs assessment processes 25

2.2.2 Plant breeding innovation Picture: IGTC bilateral meeting with International Seed Federation (ISF), 26 April 2018 26

ISF agreed to share information on i ) “general trends” about crops derived from gene editing methods for at least the next two-to-three years. This may include the specific type(s) of gene- editing methods being used; specific types of gene-edited crops that likely are being commercialized; and the approximate timing of market entry of such crops; ii) the evolution of regulatory systems around the world on crops derived from gene editing. ISF will hold internal member discussions on : i ) “what” info can be shared, as well as potential mechanisms; ii) the feasibility to develop guidelines for its members on general principles in support of information sharing (early pipeline notification) along the value chain; iii) guidance or principles specifically on gene-edited crops with functionally different output characteristics, practices on closed-loop systems, etc. IGTC and ISF committed to mutual work on the specific information needs of the food industry regarding crops derived from gene editing. For the IGTC, this means providing specific examples of info demands from food companies/buyers, particularly those that cannot be addressed through an IP system. IGTC committed - after a request from ISF - to encourage its member associations and Corporate Stakeholders to speak to the plant breeding community at national and regional level. Next bilateral: Friday 19th October in Berlin, Germany – same crowd!