Product Specification

Ministerial Decree laying down ‘Specifications for the production of ‘Honey of certified quality’ within the framework of the National Animal Husbandry Quality Scheme (SQNZ) – Ministerial Decree No 646632 of 16 December 2022’.

The specifications, in compliance with the provisions set out in higher-level legislation (European Union and national legislation on food chain safety, animal health and welfare, and the placing of products on the market), aims to promote bee products whose characteristics exceed current commercial standards by virtue of the processing and management of the final product, and thus also to safeguard the product’s origin and its intrinsic qualities, through compliance with rigorous standards verified by a system of checks carried out by accredited control bodies and supervised by the competent authorities.

The draft decree consists of eight chapters