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World Green Tea Conference
Organizer
World Green Tea Association
Dates
November 1, 2007(Thur.) - November 2, 2007(Fri.)
Venue
"Daendo" or Ellipse Theatre, Shizuoka Performing Arts Park(Shizuoka city)
Outlines
This is an international conference bringing together representatives from green tea producingand consuming countries. They presented the latest trends in tea production and consumption in each country, and discussed a promotion of expansion in global consumptionand stable production. And, World Green Tea Association proposed a recommendationmark for Japanese green tea for export overseas.
Participants
- Rachmat Badruddin:Advisor,Indonesia Tea Industry Association
- Wang Qing:Executive Vice Chairman,China Tea Marketing Association
- Young-Gul Kim:Vice Chairman,Korean Tea Producer Federation
- Yvonne,IF,Kao:Executive Director,Taiwan Tea Exporters Association
- Nguyen Kim Phong:Chairman,Vietnam Tea Industry Association
- Kalle Grieger:Director,German Tea Industry Association
- Igor Titov:General Manager,Russian Committee of the XXI Century
- Joseph P. Simrany:Chairman,The Tea Association of the U.S.A.
- Hajime Matsumoto:Senior Managing Director,World Green Tea Association(Chairperson)
- Mayumi Otsubo:President,Shizuoka Sangyo University
Theme
- Session-1 "Consumption and Production of Green Tea in the World"
- Session-2 "Towards Expansion of the Global Green Tea Consumption"
Discussion details for the conference
- "Aiming for expansion of the global green tea consumption"
- *Status of production and consumption in each country (the latest trends in production and consumption)
- * Promotion of expansion in global consumption and stable production . International agreement among involved countries
- * Proposal of recommendation mark for Japanese tea sold overseas
World Green Tea Conference Joint Declaration
November 2,2007
With the goal of increasing worldwide green tea consumption,
participating organizations shall cooperate
with the World Green Tea Association in exchanging
information to promote collection and dissemination
of green tea-related information and to implement
specific activities to realize this goal.
Promotion period: 2007 through 2010With the goal of increasing worldwide green tea consumption,
participating organizations shall cooperate
with the World Green Tea Association in exchanging
information to promote collection and dissemination
of green tea-related information and to implement
specific activities to realize this goal.
Promotion period: 2007 through 2010
Benefits
1．Participating organizations shall promote international scientific research on the health benefits of green tea and cooperate in disseminating research results to the green tea industry and the world media to contribute to global health and peace.
Safety and quality assurance
2．In order to provide safe and wholesome green tea to consumers around the world, participating organizations shall cooperate in promoting efforts to fulfill the legal requirements of each country and work toward their standardization.
Culture
3．Participating organizations shall endeavor to build a worldwide framework for promoting green tea consumption and for spreading the traditional culture associated with green tea as well as new ways to enjoy it.
