Chapter 17: EU–China Cooperation in Agriculture: An Example: The Trade in Apples

The EU–China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation assigns a key place to agriculture. Specifically, the agenda envisages projects for building environmentally-friendly agricultural systems while ensuring quality and safety of agricultural products to protect consumer health and social welfare. The EU's Sanitary and Phytosanitory Standards (SPS) play a crucial part. The trade in apples provides a good illustration of the issues involved…