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Work Sessions
(Subject to change! Last updated 16.11.2007)
The Congress will centre around 5 work sessions on Tuesday 4th December from 14.15 - 17.45
Session A: Organic Production and the CAP (Ground floor, room: Marco Polo)
Rapporteur: Mette Meldgaard, IFOAM Vice President
Session A1 14.15-15.45
A new CAP for Europe - Organic production and the CAP.
Moderation: Hannes Lorenzen, Agricultural Advisor. European Parliament
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
Session A2 16.15-17.45
New policy tools to further develop organic food and farming
Moderation: Elizabeth Guttenstein, Policy Director, ISEAL Alliance
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Leonardo Nicolia, Directorate General for Environment, Unit B1 (Agriculture, Forests and Soil), European Commission: 'Between economic and environmental constraints - the long term integration of environmental objectives into the CAP'. ( presentation)
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Lutz Ribbe, Director of the Office for Environmental Policy at the European Natural Heritage Fond: 'A vision for the CAP beyond 2013'. ( presentation)
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Stephan Dabbert, Managing Director, Institute for Farm Management, University Hohenheim:' Dynamic agricultural markets and policies: Do we need new approaches to organic farming policy?'. ( presentation)
Session B: Consistent policies for organic farming (1st floor, room: Stanley)
Rapporteur: Benedikt Haerlin, Foundation Future Farming
Session B1 14.15-15.45
Organic production for thriving rural areas
Moderation: Allessandro Triantafyllis, Chair of the IFOAM EU Group policy committee
- Michael Pielke, Unit F3 (Consistency of Rural development), Directorate Generale for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission: 'State of play of the new rural development programmes (2007-2013) with emphasis on measures related to organic farming'. (presentation)
- Patrizia Pugliese, Scientific Manager of The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari:' The contribution of organic farming to sustainable rural development in the Mediterranean area' (presentation)
Examples of rural development programmes:
- Poland: Dorota Metera, Director, Bioekspert. (presentation)
- Austria: Thomas Fertl, Head of Department Agricultural Policy, Bio Austria. (presentation)
- France: Vincent Perrot, Director, FNAB. (presentation)
- Romania: Ion Toncea, President, National Federation of Ecological Agriculture. (presentation)
15.45 - 16.45 Coffee break
Session B2 16.15-17.45
Policies to protect GM-free farming
Moderation: Alexandra Pohl, IFOAM EU Group
- Andreas Gumbert, Directorate Generale for Agriculture and Rural Development, Unit F1 (Environment, GMO and genetic resources), European Commission:' EU policy for the co-existence between GM crops and conventional and organic farming'. (presentation)
- Andrea Ferrante, President AIAB:' The Italian model for GM free farming as an example for Europe'. (presentation)
- Helen Holder, Campaigner, Friends of the Earth: 'European Policy needs for GM-free agriculture'. (presentation)
Session C: Research for competitive organic food and farming (1st floor, room: Vasco da Gama)
Rapporteur: Otto Schmid, Chair Research Committee IFOAM EU Group
Session C1 14.15-15.45
Research to enhance organic production - meet the needs of the sector and develop a vision
Moderation: Marco Schlüter, Director IFOAM EU Group/Head of Platform Secretariat
- Daniele Tissot, DG Research, Unit E4 (Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Aquaculture), European Commission: 'The contribution of an organic research vision to the 7th Framework Programme'
- David Hammerstein, MEP/Member of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: 'Why Europe needs an organic research vision and a technology platform for organic production' (speech)
Stakeholder round table: Contribution of an organic research vision and platform to key challenges in agriculture
- Johannes Nebel, Chair of the advisory group on organic farming
- Arnd Spahn, Secretary General, EFFAT
- Urs Niggli, Director FiBL
- Claude Weinber, Director of the EU Regional Office Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Daniele Tissot, Unit E4 (Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Aquaculture), DG Research, European Commission
- David Hammerstein, MEP/Member of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
Session C2 16.15-17.45
Develop an organic research vision for Europe
Moderation: Niels Halberg, Head of Research Centre DARCOF
- Urs Niggli, Director FiBL & Anamarija Slabe, Vice president of EEB: 'A vision for organic food and farming research 2025 – presentation and discussion' (presentation 1 & presentation2)
Session D: The New Organic Regulation (8th floor, room: Galileo)
Rapporteur: Louise Luttikholt, Strategic Relations Manager of IFOAM
Session D1 14.15-15.45
The new organic regulation - making it work for the sector
Moderation: Jean-François Hulot, Head of unit Organic Farming, Directorate-General for Agriculture, European Commission
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Herman Van Boxem, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Unit F5 (Organic Farming), European Commission: The new regulation - what will change for the operators, what will remain?' (presentation)
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Marianne Schoenning, Vice-President IFOAM EU, Dairy farmer, Sweden: 'What does the new organic regulation imply for small farmers?' (presentation)
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Henri de Pazzis, Chairmain and CEO of Pro Natura: 'Challenges for organic trade and processing within the new regulation' (presentation)
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
Session D2 16.15-17.45
Two challenges: Worldwide harmonisation and integrity
Moderation: Francis Blake, President IFOAM EU Group
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Gunnar Rundgren, International Task Force on harmonisation: ' The state of play on harmonisation of organic standards worldwide and what EU policy makers should do to facilitate the process' ( presentation)
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Beate Huber, FiBL: 'How to safeguard integrity within organic systems under the new regulation'. ( presentation)
- Hans-Georg Borowski-Kyhos, Head of Section, Supervision Authority on Organic Agriculture Baden-Wurttemberg: “The responsibilities between competent authority and certification body within the new organic regulation” (presentation)
Session E: Ethics, principles and the market (1st floor, room: C. Colomb)
Rapporteur: Christopher Stopes, EcoS Consultancy Ltd.
Session E1 14.15-15.45
Future challenges for processing and the organic market
Moderation: Muriel Huybrecht, Probila
15.45 - 16.45 Coffee break
Session E2 16.15-17.45
Applying organic principles in a growing market
Moderation: Martien Lankester, Executive Director of the Avalon Foundation
Initial statements with following panel discussion:
- Nikolai Fuchs, Demeter International: 'What future challenges need to be matched to safeguard the integrity of organic production as well as increasing organic markets?' (presentation)
- Ari de Kimpe, Director of Ariza: 'How to maintain high quality organic processing?' (presentation)
- Carol Haest, Consultant for Sustainable Development of the Delhaize Group:'Maintaining of organic principles in big scale sales points - a challenge?' (presentation)
- Phil Stocker, Head of Food and Farming, Soil Association: 'Soil Association accepts air freighted if organic food benefits poor farmers' (presentation)
- Kath Dalmeny, Deputy Co-ordinator of Sustain – The Alliance for Better Food and Farming: 'What benefits organic products have to deliver to continue to attract consumers?' (presentation)
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