European Food Banks Federation

EAPN

None declared

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

350,000€

237,171 € (Source: EaSI DG EMPL (168k) DG Sante (68k))

None declared

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Intergroup on Poverty

In 2018, FEBA Board of Directors decided to create an EU Working Group, which is coordinated by FEBA and is composed of representatives from the membership who deal with European issues. The main aims of this EU Working Group consist in developing thematic expertise on EU topics and facilitating the exchange of information and best practice between FEBA and the membership. In 2020 the EU Working Group was coordinated by FEBA and composed of 29 Food Bank representatives from 19 FEBA members.
Despite the situation caused by the pandemic, the EU Working Group did not stop its activity but continued – thanks to technology and online systems for conference calls – to advocate both at EU and national level. The objective of the EU Working Group was to convene in one single voice a common position towards the challenges that Europe is facing and set a common workplan to advocate for the interests of FEBA members in the upcoming months and year. Other than organising 4 meetings (one meeting in Brussels and 3 online meetings) and facilitating regular exchanges via email, FEBA drafted 8 EU Monitoring Reports covering the most important updates at EU level concerning the main interests and disseminated targeted briefings on the main important topics (e.g. European Green Deal, REACT-EU). Moreover, FEBA and the EU Working Group drafted 1 position paper on the Farm to Fork Strategy and the new food system and submitted a feedback to 5 open consultations published by the European Commission on relevant topics and policies (Circular Economy, Farm to Fork Strategy, Reg. (EC) No 852/2004 on food hygiene, Child Guarantee, Social Europe) to play a key role and position FEBA and the membership at the core of the decision-making process.

As member of the Advisory Group of the FEAD Community, FEBA also actively contributed to the organization and participated in the meetings organized by the FEAD Community. Moreover, FEBA circulated a survey about the implementation of FEAD in 2019 to 12 members which benefited from the FEAD (Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain). The survey provided information and
knowledge from the largest network of Partner Organizations of the programme: results, key findings, successes and hurdles, issues, proposals to improve the impact (e.g. type of products, pace of deliveries, reporting, audit). FEBA analysed the results of the survey and the findings were presented in a report "FEAD and the European Food Banks Federation – 2019 Implementation Report".

The European Commission contracted an external study on the use of electronic vouchers or cards for delivering food/basic material assistance to the most deprived. FEBA drafted a document on the topic, upon request of the consultancy firm conducting the study on e-vouchers for the European Commission. FEBA was contacted by a consulting agency contracted by the European Commission, DG Employment to carry out a feasibility check on food donations to assess the most feasible simplified cost solutions that could be used in the framework of the ESF+.

FEBA actively contributed to the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste, that was established in 2016 and brings together key players from the public and private sector, ranging from EU institutions, to experts from the EU countries, as well as relevant stakeholders. The European Food Banks Federation was invited as speaker to the meetings of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Waste in 2020.

Moreover, FEBA took part in the pilot project “Food redistribution in the EU – Analysis of the existing frameworks and dissemination opportunities” promoted by the European Commission (Directorate-General of Health and Food Safety – DG SANTE). In this framework, between 2019 and 2020, FEBA organised 10 stakeholders‘ dialogues.

Member of the Advisory Group of the FEAD Community and participation in the meetings

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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	12 Apr 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting to present the research on food waste management
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
  Attending	Roberto Berutti (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Independent Retail Europe (formerly UGAL - Union of Groups of Independent Retailers of Europe) EuroCommerce FoodServiceEurope Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Valio Oy Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés FERRERO International Safe Food Advocacy Europe Slow Food Cattaneo Zanetto & Co.

• Date	24 Apr 2023	Location	online
  Subject	Fead and support to most deprived
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Croix Rouge Française Les Restaurants du Cœur

• Date	11 Jan 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Food bank
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 Jun 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Discussion on Food waste
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General)

• Date	26 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Prochaines assises sur le thème des Banques Alimentaires et l’inclusion sociale
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Michel Servoz (Director-General)