Dear GSP-Secretariat
Dear Mister Mansur
The Federal Office for Agriculture of Switzerland (FOAG) welcomes the work achieved so far in the zero-draft of the International Code of Conduct for the Use and Management of Fertilizers (CoCoFe), and expresses gratitude for having been given the opportunity to provide feedback on it. We are very pleased to send in attachment our contribution in response to the open second round of e-consultation on the draft V0 of the report.
Please find attached our feedback directly in track in the uploaded document.
Among the comments we made, here a short summary:
- This extensive document covers topics on fertilizer use and management in its entirety. However, the document misses a clear structure, the numeration appears rather random. Is the absence of a table of contents and headings on purpose?
- First Paragraph (last sentence): Addition of soil pollution
- Definition of Fertilizer (Page 4, "What is a fertilizer?"): We would prefer synthetic or mineral fertilizer, rather than chemical and mineral fertilizer.
- Chapter 7, Point 7.1.6.3: We are of the opinion that if a certain contaminant is present below the respective national limit value, there is no need for declaration of the exact content of this contaminant
We remain at your disposal should you require any further information.
Best regards
Madeleine Kaufmann
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER
Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG
International Affairs and Food Security Unit
[email protected]
Ms. Madeleine Kaufmann