Conference Reader - Let the Good Products Flow!

Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Conference Reader - Let the Good Products Flow!

Global Organic Market Access in 2012 and Beyond - 13-14 February 2012, Nuremberg Messe, NCC Ost, Room Shanghai, Nuremberg, Germany

Year of publication 2012

Pages 60

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Category Technical study

Edition 1

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Language English

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