CENTRE DE RECERCA EN ECONOMIA I DESENVOLUPAMENT AGROALIMENTARI UPC-IRTA
Budget
€1,594,572
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
€739,654
Mission & Goals
CREDA-UPC-IRTA emerges from the need to help structuring a public Catalan research and development system in the agro-food sector, promoted by two institutions: the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) - Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology -, which have traditionally maintained a close cooperation in developing research and teaching in different fields. It is still a young center but also very dynamic and with the purpose to turn, with its team's effort and dynamism, into a reference center for the agro-food economics and rural development in Catalonia, in Spain and internationally. CREDA was born with the will to cooperate and collaborate in the public sector as well as in the private one, in order to contribute to the development and improvement of agriculture and livestock competitiveness, and to the modernisation of their structures, a (...)
EU Legislative Interests
HORIZON EUROPE (Research Executive Agency) Green Deal - Farm to Fork Strategy COM(2018) 173 final - 2018/0082(COD) Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain ECFWF European Consumer Food Waste Forum - JRC D1 and D3. The Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), is setting up a multi-disciplinary forum to address consumer food waste. Researchers and practitioners will work together to find solutions and develop tools to help reduce consumer food waste EU Market Wine Observatory. The aim of EU wine market observatory is to provide the EU wine sector with greater transparency through the timely dissemination of market data and short-term analysis. The wine market observatory will regularly update a wide range of data regarding prices, production and trade of this product. Other elements such as market analysis, short-term results reports or medium-term outlook will also be provided to the wine sector. Along these lines, as part of the observatory, a board of experts will meet periodically to discuss the current situation of the wine market.
Communication Activities
CREDA is a scientific research center where researchers, PhD candidates, and other staff carry out research and consultancy activities independently and without any political interests. Regarding the Directive on unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, we monitor developments in EU legislation and the decision-making process in order to prepare the annual report for the Agencia de Información y Control Alimentarios (AICA), the Spanish authority responsible for overseeing unfair trading practices. In this report, we compare AICA’s actions with those taken by authorities in other EU Member States.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We don't have any associated members, but CREDA was founded as a foundation by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA).
Organisation Members
We don't have any associated members, but CREDA was founded as a foundation by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA).
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.