RUCIP
Introduction
The economic evolution of Europe requires an on-going adaptation of trading behaviour and in particular of the Rules and Practices of the potato sector.
The first European rules were established, as early as 1956. Through the efforts of the European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Potatoes – now EUROPATAT – professional practices were defined and a simple and efficient procedure for expert assessments and arbitration, known ever since by RUCIP, has been set up. Since then, RUCIP has been used for nearly all European transactions and has several times been modified (in 1972, 1986, 1993, 2000. 2006, 2017, 2021 and 2025), which resulted in a RUCIP which has been adapted to the demands of the trade and the technical evolution within the potato sector.
Discover more at www.rucip.eu
The current version came into force on 1 October 2025.
Whilst the European Secretariat remains in charge of the day-to-day administration of the RUCIP European Committee (including finances, communication and organisation of meetings and trainings), the European Delegate Office is from where the European Delegate handles expertise and arbitration requests.
Other than that, National RUCIP secretariats are located in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.
Without cancelling any national rules, which is in any case not within their power, the two professional organisations:
- EUROPATAT (Rue des Deux Églises 26, 1000 Brussels
- EUPPA (Avenue de Tervueren 188a/4, 1150 Brussels)
who make up the RUCIP European Committee recommend all their members to use the current Rules and Practices and the Rules governing expert assessments and arbitration for their national as well as their European transactions. The code name of these rules and practices – under which they have been tried and tested – remains RUCIP.