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2018-10 INDUSTRY4EUROPE JOINT CALL TO THE CANDIDATES FOR THE 2019 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS TO PUT INDUSTRY AT THE CORE OF THE EU’s FUTURE
EU Specialty Food Ingredients has co-signed a joint call to the future members of the European Parliament to commit today to: Put industry at the top of the political agenda of the European Parliament during the next institutional cycle (2019-2024) Urge the next European Commission...
2018-07 FOR AN AMBITIOUS EU INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY – A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
The coalition Industry4Europe has issued a new joint paper on “A Governance Structure for an ambitious EU Industrial Strategy”, which has been co-signed by 122 organisations. It provides concrete recommendations to ensure that Industry is dealt with as a top political priority by all EU Institutions...
2018-06 PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE USE AND CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY THROUGH OPEN EXCHANGE OF DIGITAL SEQUENCE INFORMATION
Together with 65 public and private sector organisations, academic and scientific institutions, data repositories and collections representing a broad range of stakeholders, EU Specialty Food Ingredients has co-signed a statement that offers six recommendations to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in...
2018-05 NAGOYA PROTOCOL – EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS TO SPEAK AT VITAFOODS 2018
On 16 May 2018, on behalf of EU Specialty Food Ingredients, Mr Markus Wyss will deliver a presentation about “the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing and its potential impact on product development activities” along the following lines: The protocol is a supplementary agreement to...
2018-04 10th Anniversary of the Food Improvement Agents Package (FIAP) – EU Specialty Food Ingredients held a Panel Debate
In December 2008, the European Union adopted its Food Improvement Agents Package (also known as ‘FIAP’). The purpose of this new set of legal instruments was to harmonise, streamline the use of food additives, enzymes and flavourings, and establish a common authorisation procedure for these...
2018-03 WHAT ARE FOOD ADDITIVES? EUFIC’S VIDEO
EUFIC, the European Food Information Council, has put on line a video that explains what food additives are and their technological role in foods and beverages. EU Specialty Food Ingredients welcome this educational tool that supplements the various information packages about food additives, which are...