The dream is to make our marketplace sustainable and therefore future proof . That ’s why , as of 28 February 2025 , environmental certification will be mandatory . So many emptor , so many growers , so many deviation . have this time around is Hoek Flowers , which already takes enfranchisement into write up when purchase floriculture products .
" Will agriculturalist finally lose upset because they are not certified ? No , I do not think so . What I am seeing , is that demand is increasing . Supermarkets are very far along . They want to know the carbon footprint of Milk River and Malva sylvestris , and thus also of flowers . The flower store does not want to stay behind in this respectfulness . Increasingly more countries are asking for a credentials . We have notice this is specially the case in the Norse land and Germany . "
Ruben Hoek , director of exportation with Hoek Flowers tell his story . This kinsperson business from Rijnsburg station flowers to 56 country all over the worldly concern . " We focus on the mellow end flower store , but also on event and wedding planners . Our company is quite unique because we have a daily gillyflower of over 4000 species of flower and 2000 coinage of plants . The welfare for our customers is that they can receive their guild exceedingly quickly because of this . "
prime symbol has to be more clearThe vendee of Hoek Flowers mostly look at licence products . " When we are purchasing and we have the choice between a flushed prime with or without a quality symbolisation , we will always choose the one with the quality symbol . You are one measure ahead with an environmental security . 90 % of the products that we trade has a timbre bell ringer or a credentials . Luckily , the supply keep increasing . "
He does notice some difference worldwide , and it can be difficult to import product with the right quality symbol . " That is why we are happy with the FSI2020 enterprisingness . It give us an overview of various certificates across the world , and class them in two radical : societal and environmental . As a outcome , you may easily see to which certificate we can compare a certificate that is unknown to us . One country could ask for MPS , while GLOBALG.A.P. is more widely used in another state . Through FSI2020 , we can do it that these certificates are very like . "
With regards to increased sustainability in the industry , Ruben does see more possibilities . For example , not all certificates are digitally linked to the systems of Royal FloraHolland ( such as Fairtrade ) . " There are many dissimilar certificates , which might not always be known across the border . As an expert , Royal FloraHolland should be able to include a sort of software system leaflet with information about the timber symbol . "
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