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CIBJO Creates Committee on Lab-Grown Diamonds
Nov 21, 2019 10:08 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... The World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) has voted
to establish a lab-grown diamond committee that will determine rules for the synthetics sector.
The CIBJO board approved the move at the confederation’s 2019 congress in Bahrain, which took place from November 18 to 20. The committee will include members of an existing working group that comprises CIBJO officers, as well as representatives from the lab-grown and natural diamond
industries and a gem lab. They will report to CIBJO’s Diamond Commission.
“The time has come to reach a modus operandi that is
acceptable to all of us,” CIBJO president Gaetano Cavalieri said Thursday. “Unnecessary
effort and time have been wasted through mutual recrimination, and ultimately
it is in the interests of all sides to develop a mutually agreed-to framework
that would prevent problematic incidents, such as the mixing of parcels of
natural and laboratory-grown diamonds without disclosing the fact to consumers.”
The organization also set up a committee that aims to
develop an understanding of the new technologies impacting the industry.
Additionally, the CIBJO board reelected Cavalieri for
another two-year term and voted in two new vice presidents to join current vice president Roland Naftule. They are Jonathan Kendall of De Beers, and Pramod
Agrawal, chairman of India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council
(GJEPC).
Image: Members of the laboratory-grown diamond working group. (World Jewellery Confederation)
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CIBJO, De Beers, diamond commission, Gaetano Cavalieri, Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council, Jonathan Kendall, Lab-Grown Diamond Committee, Pramod Agrawal, Rapaport News, Roland Naftule, World Jewellery Confederation
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