Choices International Foundation
Budget
€11,500
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.25 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Choices mission is to help shaping national food systems to make the healthy choice the easy choice for consumers. The food system is a complex and complicated thing. Changing it demands a variety of actions, honest collaboration and a long term commitment. Choices wants to improve daily diets by guiding consumers to find healthier products, guiding industry to improve their products and collaborating with food & health authorities to shape effective nutrition policies.
EU Legislative Interests
1. Choices International represents the national Choices program in Czech Republic. 2. Choices International supports the national healthy food logo program in Croatia and provides information for national debates on front-of-pack labelling 3. Choices International drives the European Positive Logo Movement that brings together the 10 European countries with a positive logo 4. Choices International supports the Choices European Scientific Committee that stimulates and monitors European studies on the impact of front-of-pack labelling e.g. CLYMBOL 5. Choices International shares knowledge with DG Santé and JRC upon request
Communication Activities
1. European Logo Round Tables 2012 (Brussels), 2014 (Copenhagen), 2016 (Amsterdam), 2018 (Copenhagen), 2021 (Online) 2. Video clip on European positive logo movement 3. Choices stakeholder events in 2014, 2015 4. Participation via Schuttelaar & Partners in FLABEL and CLYMBOL research projects 5. Session at the High Level Conference on Food product improvement, Febr 2016 in Amsterdam 6. Participation in stakeholder consultation on claims regulation and FOP labelling
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Member of the Netherlands Working Group on Global Nutrition
Organisation Members
www.choicesprogramme.org
Additional Information
Whilst we are in the process of seeking public funding for our activities, we had an operating result of 6,387 in the financial year 2024.
Connected Legislation
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.