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CIBJO Releases Coral Guide
Oct 8, 2015 11:37 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... CIBJO, the World
Jewellery Confederation based in Bern, Switzerland, this week introduced an online guide aimed at ensuring the coral industry follows ethical business practices and strives
toward transparency.
Compiled by the CIBJO Coral
Commission, the Blue Book states
acceptable trade practices and nomenclature. It provides a classification of non-treated
and treated corals and artificial products that imitate or include coral
elements.
Coral “is not widely
understood” and the guide looks to create a “common sets of standards,
practices and nomenclature, similar to those which have been created by CIBJO
for other sectors,” Enzo
Liverino, president of the trade group's commission, said in a press statement.
The book provides
a list of normative terms that should be used to describe coral and how it is
treated; a guide to terms for associated artificial products; a list of methods
of maintaining coral quality; and a guide to precious coral species.
It also sets out
national and regional sustainability regulations and refers to the Washington
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which came into force
in 1975.
The
coral industry operates in a “very fragile
eco-environment, where proper standards and methods of operation are absolutely
essential,” CIBJO president Gaetano Cavalieri said in the statement.
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Tags:
Blue Book, CIBJO, coral, Rapaport News, World Jewellery Confederation
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