Live blogging from the Public Voice Coalition – Global Privacy Standards for a Global World – check out the programme here. Held in conjunction with the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Also watch #globalprivacy on twitter or EDRi’s twitter account Marc Rotenberg starts talking about Public Coalition, thanking Katitza Rodriguez for her help… » read more
Archives for Events
In our last interview from the Future of Agriculture series, we have to Franz Fischler, former European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, and now Chairman of the Rise Foundation, an organisation that supports rural development. The main focus of his position on the future development of the European agricultural sector is on the… » read more
Pressure mounts for EU-wide impact assessment
December 11, 2008
When I attended the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee of the European Parliament with colleagues on Monday to give evidence the question of an EU-wide impact assessment of the 91/414 revisions was again raised. The Commission response was that they had undertaken an impact assessment in 2006. However, this impact assessment is […] Original post… » read more
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environment, European Regulation, Events, Farming, Food and Health |
A conversation with a Spanish agronomist
October 27, 2008
Following our visit to the Efyasa farm in Spain, we spoke to chief agronomist José Luis Ripolles. He mentioned the quality issue arising from attacks by the California Red Scale pest; the limited use of pesticides in citrus fruit farming in Spain; and the fact that the five year exemption on irreplaceable pesticides being touted… » read more
Spanish orange farmers talk pesticides
October 26, 2008
We attended an event in Isla Cristina in southern Spain earlier this month at the Efyasa orange farm, which operates on the principle of Integrated Pest Management, an approach that uses a complimentary array of methods to control pests in an attempt to reduce reliance on pesticides. In this debate, focus has tended to be… » read more
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environment, European Regulation, Events, Farming, Food and Health |
Views from the Healthy Foods Summit
October 13, 2008
We attended the Healthy Foods Summit in London earlier this week with our trusted handycam. Following the keynote debate on food production, we spoke to two of the panel members, Helen Browning, Food and Farming Director at the Soil Association and Caroline Drummond, Chief Executive of LEAF, an association that specialises in integrated farm management… » read more
First PrivacyOS “Open Space” Conference
September 30, 2008
13-15 October 2008, Strasbourg, France EDRi is a partner of the PrivacyOS project – a thematic network for privacy protection infrastructure within the current European Commission´s ICT Policy Support Programme. The general objectives of PrivacyOS are to create a long-term collaboration in the thematic network and establish collective interfaces with other EU projects. Participants will… » read more
At last week’s British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium event (see entries below) we had a chat with Professor Alan Buckwell, Policy Director at the Country Land and Business Association in the UK, who chaired the event. We asked him how he thought the event had gone and whether industry’s demand for a full impact… » read more
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European Regulation, Events, Food and Health, future of europe |
Action: EC consultations on ICT policy
June 24, 2008
This summer EC is looking to get more ideas on regulation ICT & others: 1. The Commission has opened a consultation by 31 Juy 2008 on Age verification. Cross media rating and classification. Online social networking The purpose of the public consultation is to gather the knowledge and views of all relevant stakeholders (including public… » read more
British Crop Production Council discusses the consequences of EU pesticide legislation with UK food chain
June 17, 2008
The BCPC in the UK hosted a food chain forum in June, attended by growers, advisors, retainers, consumer organisations and government representatives. They came together to discuss the impact of EU’s proposed legislation on UK food production, availability and price. Not an uncommon theme right now in the media.The event was described as a “wake-up […]
Scientists comment on current food prices and yields
April 28, 2008
Here are some more clips from interviews recorded at the scientific workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, last week (see other blog entries below). Dr Ian Denholm, Rothamsted Research, UK, speaks about the need for radical steps to meet the growing demand for food in Europe, and Lise Nistrup from Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, outlines the effects of… » read more
Last night, I attended a press conference following a scientists’ workshop on the impact of the proposed revision of the EU’s pesticide legislation (Directive 91/414). Ian Denholm from the Rothamsted Research institute, presenting the workshop’s conclusions, pleaded to EU legislators to involve scientists in a thorough risk-based assessment of the proposed legislation, which he said… » read more
1st Forum for the Future of Agriculture
March 31, 2008
European Landowners (ELO) joined forces with Syngenta last week (27 March) to host a forum on the future of European agriculture. With a great programme, not surprisingly the event was well attended by a diverse group of stakeholders. I was there too and for the first time with a video camera, trying to capture various… » read more
Friday discussion webinars on sustainable energy (updated schedule)
January 24, 2008
Our Friday discussion webinars are highly interactive events in small groups, during which expert participants discuss an issue related to sustainable energy. During the session, participants can test arguments and share electronic documents, such as powerpoint presentations, pdf’s, … The events take place in the context of Leonardo ENERGY’s knowledge management & intelligence programme. They… » read more
Friday discussion webinars on sustainable energy
January 18, 2008
Our Friday discussion webinars are highly interactive events in small groups, during which expert participants discuss an issue related to sustainable energy. During the session, participants can test arguments and share electronic documents, such as powerpoint presentations, pdf’s, … The events take place in the context of Leonardo ENERGY’s knowledge management & intelligence programme. They… » read more
Workshop – Technology and the public domain
January 14, 2008
This is the title of the first COMMUNIA Workshop that will take place on Friday 18 January 2008. Admission is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Official info : Organized by and held at Politecnico di Torino this event takes aim at the international debate about the “digital commons” and […]… » read more