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TomatoEurope Processors Association

TomatoEurope

The objectives of TomatoEurope are: - To study topics of interest to the sector in legislative, economic, scientific and technological area - To constitute a forum to enhance cooperation between the economic operators - To develop actions that valorize the image of the sector, its products and enterprises - To develop relations with European and International Institutions and other partners - To study the development of the markets of tomatoes and their derivative products - To inform associates and correspondents through regular publications about the activities of the sector

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Paolo Garzotti (Head of Unit Trade)

12 Dec 2025 · EU-Mercosur agreement and the Impact on the EU Processed Tomato Sector.

Response to Circular Economy Act

5 Nov 2025

Please find our position paper enclosed.
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Response to European Water Resilience Strategy

4 Mar 2025

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Response to EU emissions trading system - update of Activity Level Changes Regulation

9 Jan 2025

As TomatoEurope, the European federation of tomato processors, we think it is indicated to use the expected activity levels as proposed to calculate the variation of activity levels for the dynamic adjustment of allowances. This will aim at avoiding that the increase of the activity level could have its origin in a decrease of efficiency (and guarantee that the increase of activity level is coming from a real change in the production level). But it is very important, to avoid unfair distortions, that when calculating the expected activity level of an installation, the energy efficiencies and production levels of all individual products within the sub-installation are considered. For instance, in the processed tomato sector most companies have 2 subinstallations (from an ETS point of view): one for products at risk of carbon leakage (prodcom 10391725, which includes tariff codes 20029031/39/91/99) and one for the other tomato prodcoms not at risk of carbon leakage (prodcoms 10391710 y 10391721). In the sub-installation for products at risk of carbon leakage, there is only one prodcom (10391725). Still, this prodcom includes many different products depending on the concentration (from 12% dry matter to more than 90% for tomato powder) that have very different energy efficiencies (the efficiency of one product included in prodcom 10391725 could be five times higher than the efficiency of another product included in the same prodcom). Each year the mix of products produced within this sub-installation (all of them included within prodcom 10391725) could vary significantly, so the average efficiency of the subinstallation could also vary significantly. So when applying the proposed formula to calculate expected activity levels to this sub-installation, it is very important that each different product within prodcom 10391725 should be considered in itself with its own energy efficiency. If, on the contrary, each prodcom is considered a product when applying the formula, this could be a serious problem for our sector, because we will then have just one average historical energy efficiency for the prodcom. Still, the average efficiency of each year will depend on the mix of individual products produced that year. It could vary significantly from one year to another. So, if we use the historical energy efficiency as a reference for an individual year, this might cause significant distortions. It will also be important in applying this formula that historical information on the energy efficiencies of each individual product be gathered, as so far it has not (at least in Spain) been compulsory to declare this information in the annual reports. We thank the Commission for its consideration of the above points.
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Meeting with Lara Comi (Member of the European Parliament) and FoodDrinkEurope and Flexible Packaging Europe

21 Nov 2023 · PPWR

Response to Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques

5 Nov 2023

Please find enclosed TomatoEurope Processors Association's contribution to this consultation.
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Response to Environmental claims based on environmental footprint methods

21 Jul 2023

Please find the position of TomatoEurope enclosed.
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Response to Carbon Removal Certification

23 Mar 2023

Please find attached TomatoEurope Processors Association's feedback to the Commission proposal establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals.
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Meeting with Salvatore De Meo (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

23 Mar 2023 · PPWR

Response to Carbon Removal Certification

2 May 2022

TomatoEurope Processors Association welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the initiatives for the creation of EU rules on certifying carbon removals. The Commission has recently published its Communication on sustainable carbon cycles, which includes proposals that could significantly impact ETS. We would like to support the urgent need to develop a robust and standardized methodology to calculate, monitor, report, verify, and certify the carbon removals linked to farm-level agricultural activities so that growers will receive carbon credits for the carbon removals of their crops. As it is said in the Communication this carbon removals certification scheme should be based on or should be compatible with ETS so that sectors like the processing tomato industry could compensate for its emissions with crop removals. This way the ETS will correctly take into account the actual carbon balance of these EU sectors that process agricultural products. Right now there are no feasible and economically viable low carbon technologies that the tomato processing industry could apply to obtain important reductions in their carbon balance. One of the possible options of green energy for our sector could be the use of biogas if soon this fuel becomes more available on the market. To promote the green transition in sectors like ours, it would be important that the use of biogas in stationary installations is positively considered in the ETS activity calculations as zero-rated.
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Response to Commission Regulation setting maximum residue levels for chlorate in or on certain products

18 Feb 2019

Please find attached comments on behalf of TomatoEurope Processors Association.
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Response to Commission Implementing Regulation on the provision of voluntary indication of origin or place of provenance of foods

1 Feb 2018

TomatoEurope Processors' association is the European Organisation of Tomato Industries representing the tomato processing industry from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and France. We would like to thank the Commission for the opportunity to provide comments regarding the Implementing Regulation on Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011. As European industry, the sector of processed tomatoes firmly believes that providing adequate and not misleading information to consumers represents an asset rather than a burden for the sector: we strongly support the mandatory indication of country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient when it does not correspond to the country of origin/place of provenance of the food. As our industry is significantly characterized by mono-ingredient products, we believe that, whenever a food business operator voluntarily indicates - directly or indirectly - or even “hints” at a certain origin of the food, the actual origin of the raw material shall be specified, with only few exceptions that are related to some specific cases, in line with the rationale of Recitals 2, 7 and 8 and the objectives set by Article 26(3) of Reg. 1169/2011, such as registered trademarks (Recital 7), customary names, generic names (as per Recital 8 of the implementing regulation). Although we believe that there are still some provisions that would need to be better clarified, we ultimately welcome this long awaited Implementing Regulation and we hope that it could represent an important step towards a more integrated, more transparent and well-implemented EU legal framework on food information and labelling systems.
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Response to Evaluation of marketing standards [Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013]

27 Jul 2017

TomatoEurope is the European Organisation of Tomato Industries representing the tomato processing industry from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and France. With reference to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 543/2008 of 16 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards for processed tomato products, TomatoEurope would like to request the inclusion of a mandatory requirement for processors to indicate EU/Non EU origin of the tomato raw material in processed products for which tomato is the main ingredient, with no mention of country-specific origin of the ingredient. As European industry, the sector of processed tomatoes cares a lot about adequate information and food safety for consumers, as consumers should be aware of any products which are strongly characterized by a “European image” but have been made with raw material from non-EU origins. The EU sector of processed tomatoes is particularly characterized by the respect of strict phytosanitary and hygiene norms and environmental, social and ethical standards, and we believe it is important for consumers to have information on the place of production where the primary ingredient has been cultivated and processed, in order to be confident that the product has been made according to European Standards. For our sector the labelling of the EU origin, rather than the country of origin, is important, as this allows flexibility to the processor to use different EU raw material, without the need to change the label.
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