إسبانيا: لوائح جديدة لضبط سوق التجارة الحلال

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

في إطار محاولات تنظيم سوق التجارة الحلال ومراقبته، تعاونت مؤسسة الحلال بـ"قرطبة" الإسبانية وهيئة المعايير الإسبانية لوضع لوائح جديدة لسوق التجارة الحلال، وذلك بدعم الاتحادات الإسلامية وجهات التصنيع والاستهلاك والإدارة.

ومن المقرر أن تقوم اللجنة الفنية الجديدة بمتابعة المعايير الأوروبية للتذكية الشرعية والمنتجات الحلال، والمواد المضافة والتسمية وتتبُّع المنتجات ورقابتها.

وقد أشارت الإحصاءات إلى نحو 500 مليون من غير المسلمين حول العالم يستخدمون منتجات حلال تبلغ حوالي 2 مليار دولار؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Spain Regulates Halal Food

In a bid to normalize, regulate and control the Halal market in Spain, the Cordoba-based Halal Institute has cooperated with the Spanish standardization authority to develop new regulations related to the growing halal market.

“This is the first time that a Technical Committee on Standardization, addresses technical and religious aspects,” a press release obtained by OnIslam.net quoted Hanif Escudero, the director of Halal Standardization, as saying.

In a meeting held last week, the Halal Institute of the Islamic Board of Spain, based in Cordoba, together with the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (AENOR), to agree on the recently developed standardization activity related to halal food.

The meeting was held with the support of the main Islamic federations, consumers, manufacturers and the Administration.

Escudero noted that the Technical Committee on Standardization AEN/CTN 308 'Halal' is the body created for this activity, whose Secretariat functions will be carried out by the Halal Institute, on behalf of the Islamic Board of Spain.

The Halal Institute is the Islamic and scientific organization dedicated to normalize, regulate and control the Halal market in Spain.

Escudero added that the Halal Institute of the Islamic Board was the driving force behind the development and signing of the Cooperation Agreements of 1992 (26/1992) and the registrant of the Guarantee Mark Halal (2466790 M 0. Halal).

In this sense, the first objective of this new Technical Committee on Halal Standardization “will consist in following-up to a European standard draft on Halal food requirements, the use of additives, animal slaughter and welfare, the traceability or labeling.”

In addition to the follow-up of this European project, the Halal Institute, as Hanif Escudero has pointed out, “has brought up the idea of organizing several working groups to assume other areas, as is the case of beverages, tourism, cosmetics or finances. Emerging sectors in which Spain must also be a reference.”

Another of the reasons for organizing various working groups is that the Committee of the Whole 'is a broad, representative and also diverse body.

The director of Halal Standardization has concluded that, “the working groups are a necessary tool in order to take advantage of the working meetings and all the efforts and dedication put in by the members of the Committee.”

The concept of halal, -- meaning permissible in Arabic -- has traditionally been applied to food.

Muslims should only eat meat from livestock slaughtered by a sharp knife from their necks, and the name of Allah, the Arabic word for God, must be mentioned.

Now other goods and services can also be certified as halal, including cosmetics, clothing, pharmaceuticals and financial services.

Halal food is consumed not only by 1.5 billion Muslims around the world, but also by at least 500 million non-Muslims in the $2 billion global industry.