Agenda eu food sense conference 020414

European Parliament’s Sustainable Food Conference The Commission's imminent food policy: Sustainability or standing still?

2 April 2014, 09:00-11:30 European Parliament, Brussels, Room P5B001 Organised by EU Food Sense, the European Parliament’s Cross-Party Sustainable Food Steering Group 09:00 Welcome and opening remarks by Chairman Edward McMillan-Scott MEP (UK, ALDE) 09:05 Professor Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, on why the right to food is an important human right and his hopes for the EU's communication 09:15 Q&A with Olivier De Schutter moderated by Edward McMillan-Scott 09:30 Co-chair Bart Staes MEP (BE, Green) statement then welcomes: 09:35 Tristram Stuart, food-waste campaigner and founder of Feeding the 5000 and the Pig Idea, with EU policy recommendations 09:45 Co-chair Emer Costello MEP (IE, S&D) statement then welcomes: 09:50 Chantal Bruetschy, Head of Innovation and Sustainability, DG SANCO, preventing food waste and food losses from farm to fork without compromising food safety 10:00 Co-chair Sirpa Pietikainen MEP (FI, EPP) statement then welcomes: 10:05 Ben Caspar, Coordinator of the EU Sustainable Food Communication, update on the communication 10:15 Edward McMillan-Scott welcomes: 10:15 Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming, on recommendations for a Sustainable Food Policy in the European Union 10:25 Marije Cornelissen MEP (NL, Green) statement then welcomes: 10:30 Marianne Thieme, Dutch MP for the Party for the Animals, on animal welfare and food policy at a national and a European level 10:40 Bart Staes welcomes: 10:40 Barbara Unmüßig, President of Heinrich Böll Foundation, on policy makers’ need to address the global impact of meat consumption, and conclusions from the Meat Atlas report 10:50 Open discussion 11:30 ENDS This conference is held in conjunction with the Feeding the 5000 food waste event, where the team will be serving up a delicious free lunch made entirely out of food that would have been wasted. This will take place on 1 April from 12:00-16:00 at Marché Aux Herbes near the Grand Place, Brussels.