Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Oct 2025 | Flavio Facioni Cabinet member | EU priorities in the food safety sector | — |
| 09 Oct 2025 | Flavio Facioni Cabinet member | EU priorities in the food safety sector | SRC |
| 14 Jul 2025 | Peter Wehrheim Head of Unit | Upcoming food-related events, Food systems actions in the Life Science Strategy | SRC |
| 14 Jul 2025 | Peter Wehrheim Head of Unit | Upcoming food-related events, Food systems actions in the Life Science Strategy | — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Patricia Reilly Cabinet member | European Food Forum | — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Patricia Reilly Cabinet member | European Food Forum | SRC |
| 09 Apr 2025 | Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts Head of Unit | Exchange of views on challenges for the sector | — |
| 09 Apr 2025 | Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts Head of Unit | Exchange of views on challenges for the sector | SRC |
| 09 Apr 2025 | Kerstin Jorna Director-General | Exchange of views on challenges for the sector | SRC |
| 09 Apr 2025 | Kerstin Jorna Director-General | Exchange of views on challenges for the sector | — |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Martin Merlin Director | The Omnibus Package - The Way Forward on Simplification and Sustainability Rules | — |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Martin Merlin Director | The Omnibus Package - The Way Forward on Simplification and Sustainability Rules | SRC |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Claire Bury Deputy Director-General | Innovative, sustainable, and resilient food systems | — |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Claire Bury Deputy Director-General | Innovative, sustainable, and resilient food systems | SRC |
| 01 Jul 2024 | Wolfgang Burtscher Director-General | exchange on recent developments regarding sustainable food systems | — |
| 01 Jul 2024 | Wolfgang Burtscher Director-General | exchange on recent developments regarding sustainable food systems | SRC |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Lukas Visek Cabinet member | Keynote on the EU Code of Conduct for responsible business and marketing practices | — |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Lukas Visek Cabinet member | Keynote on the EU Code of Conduct for responsible business and marketing practices | SRC |
Mission & Goals
The European Food Forum (EFF) is an independent, non-partisan platform founded and led by Members of the European Parliament. Its primary objective is to foster open dialogue on sustainable food systems, by bringing together policymakers, representatives from the food supply chain, civil society organizations, research and academia, Think Thanks, Foundations and other public institutions and Private entities. The EFF focuses on EU Agri-food policies and their impact on the global market, sustainable food production, on environmental and social sustainability, and on human health. The EFF recognizes the importance of collaborating globally to address challenges in food security, sustainability, and public health. To ensure that the EFF fulfils its mission of ‘independence and non-partisanship’ effectively and transparently, the EFF has adopted a code of conduct (published in the website) for its members and rules for collaboration with international organisations and third countries.
EU Legislative Interests
The European Food Forum supports Members of the European Parliament from all political groups in their efforts to better understand the agri-food system and inform their policy making activities. The European Food Forum does not itself take any position and does not represent specific interests. Those some of the main EU legislative proposals considered in our dialogues: - Communication COM/2025/75: "A Vision for Agriculture and Food – Shaping together an attractive farming and agri-food sector for future generations" - European Biotech Act - Food Loss and Waste Directive (Amendment to Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC) - Common Agricultural Policy Simplification Package - Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and EUDR – Omnibus Revisions - Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) The EFF follows all the policies related to the vision and the food sector including the following: - Sustainability in EU agriculture and rural areas thanks to the common agricultural policy (CAP) - The Common Fisheries Policy - Animal Welfare - Menthal Health and eating desorders - novel food - bioeconomy - food research and innovation - Climate action - Competition - Consumers - Customs - Digital economy and society - Education - Employment and social affairs - Energy - Environment - Food safety - Fraud prevention - International co-operation and development - Justice and fundamental rights - Public health - Regional Development - Research and innovation - Single market - Global market - Taxation - Trade
Communication Activities
The European Food Forum hosts regular multi-stakeholders debates and meetings on a wide range of topics related to the agri-food system and emerging trends across Europe with the aim of improving transparency and mutual understanding. Regular topics are: - EU Food Safety Standard and Pesticides - Food packaging and plastics: How to achieve circularity and reduce environmental impacts” - Food waste - Nutrition and labelling - Food Reformulation (e.g.Sugar, salt and fat reduction targets} and Marketing (e.g. restriction on advertising to kids) - Dual Quality and Misleading food labelling including health and nutrition claims - EU funding for research and innovation in the agri-food sector - Sustainable food systems - Deforestation - Sustainable Development Goals - Sustainable Public Procurement of Food - vocational training skills and educational programmes in agri-food - hunger and food banks policies - due diligence
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
No membership affiliation
Organisation Members
List of full EFF members can be found at the link: https://europeanfoodforum.eu
Additional Information
EFF's activities are fully financed through EFF's annual membership fees, which are its primary source of income. EFF's budget covers all running costs, including costs staff, events and outreach activities. EFF does not itself take any position and does not represent specific interests.