CONFERENCE: INNOVATIVE FOOD
Unblocking Innovation — Towards “Food 2030” — Envisaging “Food 2050”
Tuesday, 9 July 2019 (9.30 - 16.30) – VMA3
PROGRAMME
09h00 | Registration
09h30 | Welcome
- Antonello Pezzini, President of the EESC Study Group NAT/555 on Sustainable Food
Morning session chaired by Jens Karsten, Food Lawyers’ Network
Setting the Frame:
09h40 | Food’s Futures — A Plurality of Options: Ideas for Prioritisation in the EU’s Political Season 2019-2024, Raymond O’Rourke, Irish food lawyer
10h00 | Consumers Ready for Acquiring New Tastes? Readiness for Change in the Name of Sustainability, Camille Perrin, BEUC
Timeframes:
10h20 | “Food 2030”, Karen Fabbri, European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation
10h40 | “Food 2050”, Franz Ulberth, Joint Research Centre, (Health, Consumers and Reference Materials – Fraud Detection and Prevention)
Q&A from the audience
Construction Site One: Market Access for Regulated Products, the Example of Novel Food
11h00 | Stevia, Jan Geuns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
11h15 | Cultured Meat, Peter Verstrate, MosaMeat
11h30 | Cannabis, Gilles Boin, French food lawyer
11h45 | Insects, Christophe Derrien, IPIFF
12h00 | Panel Discussion, including Takis Daskaleros, European Commission, DG SANTE
Q&A from the audience
13h00 | Lunch Break — sponsored by the Food Lawyers’ Network
Afternoon session chaired by Bernd van der Meulen, European Institute for Food Law
14h30 | Tackling Food Fraud — Science in the Service of Protecting Authenticity and Attesting Origin, Giorgio Rusconi, Italian food lawyer
Construction Site Two: Intellectual Property for Food and Seeds, Patents, Data Protection, New Breeding Techniques
14h45 | New Breeding Techniques - Explaining CRISPR, Dennis Eriksson, Swedish University of Agricultural Science
15h00 | Patents on Life, Per Lidman, Swedish food lawyer
15h15 | Data Protection and Food, Bernd van der Meulen, European Institute for Food Law
Q&A from the audience
16h00 | Closing Session — Emerging Shape of the Food Policy of the 9th European Parliament: A Tour de Table with Newly Elected Members of the European Parliament, with Norbert Lins MEP, Annie Schreijer-Pierik MEP, Sarah Wiener MEP
16h30 | End of Conference, closing remarks by Maurizio Reale, President of the EESC Specialised Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment (NAT)
Interpretation: EN/FR/IT/CS/DE/ES >>> EN/FR/IT/CS