Christine Schneider

ALT In May of 2023, the second meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) on an agreement to reduce plastic waste will be held in Paris. Additionally, the EU Parliament and Council are currently assessing the Commission’s proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. These two initiatives showcase how tackling the issue of sustainable packaging will require a global, multi-sectoral, collaborative effort. The U.S. Mission to the European Union and the EFF plan to facilitate a dialogue where U.S. and European packaging experts can discuss practical solutions for sustainable packaging with politicians, industry, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders. This dialogue will provide an opportunity for packaging engineers, academics, sustainability experts, and consumer and civil society representatives on both sides of the Atlantic to talk about opportunities and challenges in the transition toward a more sustainable future of packaging.

ALT In this event the EFF and the EP Intergroup on Wine, Spirits and Foodstuffs with a line-up of high-level speakers will exchange views on how to achieve this goal, focusing in particular on the revision of the EU Promotion Policy and the expected proposal on alcohol labelling, hence trying to understand: - How to strike a fair balance between the economic profitability of the agri-food sector and the societal expectations in the European Union? - What will be the impact in the agri-food sector of reform in the promotion policy and alcoholic labelling? - How to protect, foster and trailblaze our food culture, while meeting the new healthy trends? In the spirit of the European Food Forum's mission to foster dialogue and debate on the issues that matter, the two-hour debate will encourage an open exchange of perspectives from all participants."