Arab Republic of Egypt Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade General Organization for Export and Import Control

In the frame work of GOEIC's caution to remove all obstacles which hurdle the trade movement towards business society and to facilitate the foreign trade movement, Engineer/ Essam Elnaggar, chairman of GOEIC, received the Dutch delegation represented by Mr. Eng./Melle Leenstra at the commercial attaché of the Holland embassy and Mr./Omar Abdellatif the agricultural consultant at the Holland embassy- Cairo.

The Meeting included the following꞉-

• The discussion concerning the facilities that are provided from GOEIC to the business community of the exporters in Holland when exporting their exports to Egyptian Arabic Republic.
• The Delegation inform questions about the quality certificate required for registration according to the ministerial decree no. 43/2016 Especially for Dutch companies working in the manufacture of food and agricultural products that have IFS and BRC quality certificates. Eng./ Essam Elnaggar - Chairman of GOEIC confirmed that the quality certificates that are accepted according to the Ministerial Decree No. 43 are the quality certificates that are approved by the international accreditation bodies ILAC or IAF.
• The Dutch delegation wondered about how to inquire the companies that have been warned or suspended according to the ministerial decree no 43/2016. He answered that there is a list with companies' names that don't meet the ministerial decree requirements published on the website of GOEIC periodically with the three languages (Arabic-English-French).  In addition, that the website should be monitored to find out the status of the companies registered in the ministerial decision.

At the end of the meeting, he expressed his pleasure as per the delegation's visit and expressed that GOEIC is always ready to provide its full support to the business community.