LUFPIG GMOs
LUFPIG lunch meeting with Commissioner Fischer Boel
LUFPIG's agenda
mr. foarde speech
professor marsh speech
sue mcdougall speech
hayes 1 speech
hayes 2 paper
conference outline
2009
January
January 13th, 12h30-14h00 - Informal exchange of views on greening of CAP Paper
February
February 12th, 12h30-14h00 -
brief exchange of views on the Court of Auditors special report about Cross Compliance
February 17th, 12h30-14h00 - Meeting following up on power of retailers in supply chain with Comission
March
March 3rd, 12h30-14h00 - Lunch meeting with Mr. Borchardt, Chef de Cabinet of Comissioner Fisher Boel
April
April 1st - "Why science matters?"
April 30th, 14h00-17h00 - Conference "Cap beyond 2013: green and lean?"
2006 |
30 November
12h30 |
Roundtable Discussion on Bio-fuels: Land for Energy, with
a number of NGOs and interest groups
Land for Energy - 30.11.2006 Programme
Meeting Documents:
- GLOBE-LUFPIG Biofuel Strategy Note
- OECD Handout
- WWF on Bioenergy for LUFPIG
- I.Korsbakken - presentation for LUFPIG |
23 November
12h00 |
Lunch meeting with Sir Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco |
9 November
13h15 |
Meeting with Jack Thurston for update on Transparency in Agriculture Subsidies, www.farmsubsidy.org
Meeting Documents:
- Transparency in farm subsidies - is sunlight the best disinfectant
- CAP Transparency Index
- Response to the European Transparency Initiative Green Paper
- Farmsubsidy.org concerns about the new EU Financial Regulation
Joint statement to Members of the European Parliament:
Transparency in EU Funds - A Moment of Truth |
11 October
16h00 |
Lufpig Steering Committee Meeting: Informal roundtable discussion on biofuels |
20 June 19h00 |
LUFPIG Annual General Meeting - Stanhope Hotel, Brussels. This will be the last LUFPIG meeting for Chairman Terry Wynn who is standing down as an MEP after the summer. The AGM will pay tribute to the work Terry has done over the 17 years he has been invovled with LUFPIG and appoint a new Chairman. All are welcome. |
30 May 18h00 |
Open Evening Debate held with European Environment Bureau: "Managing Our Land" |
30 May 14h30 |
Food Policy Forum in order to liaise with interested parties on the possible creation of a European Parliament food policy platform. |
26 April
13h00 |
Second biofuels roundtable with GLOBE looking particularly at the Biomass Action Plan, the Biofuels Communication and the Energy Crop Scheme |
19 April 19h30 |
MEPs dinner discussion with the New Zealand Ambassador to the European Union |
22 March |
Informal roundtable discussion on biofuels with Unilever |
21 March |
MEPs to meet with Professor Messerlin to discuss his project on transparency in French Farm Subsidies |
31 January |
Joint meeting with the Sports InterGroup on the Commission's Green Paper on Obesity and Health Policy |
23 January |
Dinner Debate with Latvian Agricultural Minister Martins Roze |
11 January |
Informal roundtable discussion on the future financing of the CAP with BirdLife International.
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2005 |
January |
Meeting with Dutch Agriculture Minister Veerman |
13 October |
German Marshall Fund discussion: 'Transparency in EU and US Farm Subsidies' Chaired by LUFPIG Chairman Terry Wynn |
5 October |
CEPS Task force: 'The UK Rebate and the CAP - Phasing them both out?' Chaired by LUFPIG Chairman Terry Wynn |
20 September |
Informal roundtable Sugar, discussing the impact of the Commission's proposed reform of the industry. |
6 September |
Dinner Debate with Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, discussing the impact on EU agriculture and food of the accession of new, and candidate, member states. |
7 June |
Dinner Debate with Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel, discussing proposed reforms of the EU Sugar Regime. |
In the Parliamentary term 1999-2004, under the chairmanship of Jan Mulder, LUFPIG held a number of workshops and roundtable meetings with key policy makers in the field of food and agriculture. Regular meetings were held with Agriculture Commissioner Fischler and Trade Commissioner Lamy. Dinner debates were hosted with national politicians including Dutch agriculture Minister Brinkhorst, the Australian Agriculture Counsellor Peter Thomas and the Polish Ambassador to the EU amongst others.
Mr Geoffrey Podger, Executive Director of the European Food
Safety Authority was invited to debate the future of food policy
and several relevant discussions on topical issues were had
with CEOs of major food companies, academics, including Professor
Stefan Tangermann, and others leading to a rich and mutually
beneficial exchange of views.
