Opening – Wednesday, 10th June 2015
Opening reception
Speaker/topic
Time
19.00
Day I – Thursday, 11th June 2015
Policies for green growth? - Using the new organic regulation and CAP to generate organic development
Speaker/topic
Time
Welcome coffee and registration
08.30
Opening Plenary Building the future of organic into today’s policy framework
09.30
Jānis Dūklavs- Minister of Agriculture of Latvia
Martin Häusling- Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for the Legislative Proposal for the New Organic Regulation
Christopher Stopes- President, IFOAM EU
Coffee break and press conference
10.45
Workshops: The new Organic Regulation & CAP
Workshop I: Organic regulation: towards the final agreement?
11:15
Inese Pastare Irbe - Attaché on Common Agricultural Policy, Permanent representation of the Republic Latvia to the European Union
Monique Faber-Decker- Chief Officer of Plant Health Service, Ministry of Agriculture of Luxembourg, Viticulture and Consumer protection
– Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for the Legislative Proposal for the New Organic Regulation
Linda Mauperon - Senior Expert on Organic Farming, Internal Policy and Regulation, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Jan Plagge - President, Bioland
Moderator: Andrea Ferrante - AIAB
Workshop II: EU Regulatory and policy solutions towards progressive organic sector development
11:15
Joelle Katto Andrighetto- Value Chain Manager, IFOAM
Juliette Leroux - European Affairs Officer, FNAB
Alina Ujupan - Policy Co-ordinator on Organic Farming, Internal Policy and Regulation, DG for Agriculture and Rural development, European Commission
Chris Atkinson – Head of Standards, Soil Association
Moderator: Alexander Beck - Board Member, AöL
Workshop III: The role of organic farming in global food and nutrition security
11:15
Marco Schlüter - Director, IFOAM EU
Urs Niggli - Director, FiBL
Niels Gøtke- Head of the Division, DASTI / FACCE JPI
Lunch
13.15
Reports from workshops
15.00
Moderator: Minou Menzel, SöL (tbc)
Supporting the development of organic now: Round table discussion
15.30
Eric Andrieu- Member of the European Parliament, Shadow Rapporteur of the Socialists and Democrats Group for the Legislative Proposal for the New Organic Regulation
Aivars Lapiņš - Head of Agriculture, Food, Veterinary, Forestry and Fisheries Division, Permanent representation of the Republic of Latvia to the European Union
Diego Canga Fano - Director, Directorate B - Multilateral relations, Quality policy, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Hester Maij – Member, Executive Council of the Province of Overijssel, Committee of the Regions
Thomas Fertl - Vice President, IFOAM EU
Moderator: Marco Schlüter - Director, IFOAM EU
Coffee break
16.45
Launch of a vision for organic food and farming & organic agriculture’s future role in the
17.15
Raffaele Zanoli - Professor of Agricultural Economics & Marketing, University Ancona
Klaus Arntz - EVP Marketing, Quality and R&D, Wessanen
Urs Niggli - Director, Fibl
Kurt Sannen - Chair, Bioforum
Closing of the day
18.15
Marco Schlüter - Director, IFOAM EU
Congress participants group picture
18:30
Bus ride to dinner venue
19:00
Networking dinner and cultural programme
20:15
Day II - Friday, 12th June 2015
Strategies Towards VISION 2030: Making the vision a reality for the movement, from farmers to processors
Speaker/topic
Time
Welcome coffee
08.15
Strategies towards a Vision 2030
08.45
Raffaele Zanoli - Professor of Agricultural Economics & Marketing, University Ancona
Christopher Stopes - President, IFOAM EU
Workshops: round one – Selecting our objectives
09.00
Coffee break
10.45
Workshops : round two - Putting ideas into practice
11.15
Lunch
13.00
Workshops: round three - Strategic planning against future scenarios
14.00
Coffee break
15.45
Plenary: Putting the pieces together – reporting and discussion
16.15
Closing of the conference
17.00
Christopher Stopes, IFOAM EU President
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