Assessment of Effects of EU Aflatoxin Standards along Cereals Value Chain in Russia: German Methodological Proficiency Complemented by Russian Local Knowledge

评估欧盟黄曲霉毒素标准对俄罗斯谷物价值链的影响：德国方法熟练程度与俄罗斯当地知识的补充

• 批准号: 29487106
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jürgen Zeddies
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre (410)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-31 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/29487106?language=en
• 关键词: Assessment; Effects; EU; Aflatoxin; Standards

Globalization raised the importance of food safety and quality concerns. Developed countries implement precautionary food regulation policies to protect their affluent consumers from unsafe food imported from developing and transition countries. However, the alarming number of trade disputes at WTO evidences cases of abuse of such policies. While claims on protectionist nature of food regulations are valid in principle, yet there is little empirical evidence about their economic effects. The questions of 1) quantification of trade impact of food standards and 2) investigation of national food regulation systems are absolutely essential for the new trade agenda. These problems for developing countries are on the focus of trade policy debate, whereas for transition countries are not considered seriously. Such a research for these recently liberalized markets gains a special significance. ¿ The proposed research will employ Gravity Model for quantitative estimation of impact of EU aflatoxin standards on transition countries¿ exports.¿ Russian food regulations for cereal value chain, their enforcement and monitoring mechanisms will be investigated through value chain and cost-benefit analysis.¿ Compliance of Russian norms with EU standards will be estimated applying comparative advantage analysis.The study area is Stavropol region of the Russian Federation. Local experts will contribute to the construction of the research data set and analysis. The results of the research will assist 1) international policy makers in designing new global trade agenda and 2) Russian producers, exporters and decision makers in improving cereal value chain.

全球化提高了食品安全和质量问题的重要性。发达国家实施预防性食品监管政策，以保护其富裕消费者免受从发展中国家和转型国家进口的不安全食品的侵害。然而，世贸组织的贸易争端数量惊人，证明了滥用此类政策的案例。虽然关于食品法规的保护主义性质的主张在原则上是有效的，但很少有关于其经济影响的经验证据。1)量化食品标准对贸易的影响和2)调查国家食品监管体系的问题对于新的贸易议程是绝对必要的。发展中国家的这些问题是贸易政策辩论的重点，而转型期国家的这些问题则没有得到认真考虑。这样的研究对于这些刚刚开放的市场具有特殊的意义。拟议的研究将采用重力模型定量估计欧盟黄曲霉毒素标准对转型国家出口的影响。俄罗斯谷物价值链食品法规及其执行和监测机制将通过价值链和成本效益分析进行调查。俄罗斯规范与欧盟标准的合规性将通过比较优势分析进行评估。研究区域为俄罗斯联邦斯塔夫罗波尔地区。本地专家将为研究数据集的构建和分析作出贡献。研究结果将有助于1)国际决策者设计新的全球贸易议程，2)俄罗斯生产商、出口商和决策者改善谷物价值链。