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2018-11 A NEW BOARD ELECTED
Mr Dominique Speleers, Executive Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Beneo, is re-appointed President. Mrs Marie-Laure Empinet (Executive Committee Member at Starch Europe) is re-appointed Vice-President and Mr Bernd Haber (Director Global Regulatory & External Affairs / Human Nutrition at BASF) is appointed Treasurer. The...
2018-11 A NEW MEMBER COMPANY JOINS EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS
At its Annual General Meeting on 13th November, the General Assembly has welcomed the Spanish company PRODUCTOS SUR as new member of the association. The broad membership of EU Specialty Food Ingredients makes it an undisputed key stakeholder of the food value chain, through its...
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...