Traduction de «Culture à fibres » (Français → Anglais) :

Assessment and verification: the applicant shall obtain from the fibre manufacturer(s) valid, independently certified chain of custody certificates demonstrating that the wood fibres have been grown according to sustainable forestry management principles and/or are from legal sources.

1. In the case where an application for aid for arable crops area payments in accordance with Chapter 10 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 contains a declaration of the cultivation of flax and hemp grown for fibre pursuant to Article 106 of that Regulation, the official labels used on the packaging of the seeds in accordance with Council Directive 2002/57/EC , and in particular Article 12 thereof, shall be submitted or, in the case of flax grown for fibre, any other documents recognised as equivalent by the Member State concerned, including the certification provided for in Article 19 of that Directive.

1.1. For cereals, including durum wheat, oilseeds, protein crops, linseed, flax and hemp grown for fibre, grass silage and set-aside:

Information shall be provided on the use of any raw materials (e.g., cytokines, growth factors, culture media) or of possible ancillary products and medical devices e.g., cell sorting devices, biocompatible polymers, matrix, fibres, beads in terms of bio-compatibility, functionality as well as the risk of infectious agents.

It is this innocuous stalk which is a source of valuable hemp fibre. It is the fibre, I repeat, that is the primary source of revenue from this crop in which farmers are interested.

Consolidated is an American company that contracted the crop, the fibre, and the seed, and their intention was to build a plant in Dauphin to process it.