Legislators ruled on a proposal in the Agricultural Affairs Committee, which seeks to give more legal powers to the Coffee Institute of Costa Rica (Icafé) which would be the exclusive manager to issue certificates of origin and quality of coffee for export.
This is part of project 21.163, which also requires the producer and beneficiary to request the authorization to register a process of maquila, “for which you must submit a service contract signed between them that must contain the guidelines defined in the Regulation to this law,” indicates the proposal.
In addition, Icafé would be in charge of determining the daily maximum and total normal processing capacity per harvest for each benefit, based on a technical study.
This entity would also have the power to develop commercial activities such as the production, purchase and national and international marketing of coffee seeds in their different forms of reproduction according to the technique and science, in order to authorize and develop technological innovation, productive increase and mitigation to climate change.
According to Paola Valladares, from the National Liberation Party (PLN), with this initiative they seek to reactivate the coffee sector.
Icafé would also be in charge of indicating when a producer can deliver the coffee in ripe fruit in time after the established 24 hours, due to fortuitous events, and will have to import and market all kinds of supplies when the product has a pest or disease.