Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.35 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese and dairy producers’ European network (FACEnetwork)
EU Transparency Register
334837913491-16 First registered on 20 Apr 2014
Goals / Remit
The association FACEnetwork (Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese and dairy producers’ European network) represents farmhouse and artisan dairies and cheese houses sector at a European scale.
The articles of the association were officially registered in February 2013 but the network started in 2009. It aims at representing and defending the interests of the farmhouse and artisan cheese and dairy sector, which is composed of businesses processing milk from cow, goat, buffalo and sheep, at a small-scale, and mostly, in the following two types of premises:
- "Farmhouse" premises, which belong to farms and which process milk from at least the majority of their own livestock according to traditional methods
- "Artisan" premises, which collect milk from local farmers and process it in small structures according to traditional methods
In both cases, they generally enter in the definition of “microenterprises”, according to Commission Recommendation C(2003) 1422. They are family bus (...)Main EU files targeted
FACEnetwork notably works on food safety, food labelling and presentation, food legislation, all this, when it concerns farmhouse and artisan cheese and dairy products. We also are interested by issues on animal health and welfare and more generally speacking, on biodiversity.
Since 2014, FACEnetwork is member of two of the DG Agri’s Civil Dialogue Groups: the "milk" group and the "promotion and food quality" group. In both groups, it participated to topics related to “nutritional labelling” and to “labelling of origin or place of provenance of the ingredients”.Address
Head Office
Rue de Châteaudun, 42
PARIS 75314
FRANCEEU Office
Zandvoort 4
Amerongen 3958 CT
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.35
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The Council of FACEnetwork is the instance which rules the association. It is composed of one producer or one technician of each organisation from our 16 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€ - 24,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Civil Dialogue Group (CDG) on Animal Production#E03879#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3879 #Member #C#Professionals#Civil Dialogue Group (CDG) on Quality and Promotion#E03882#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3882 #Member #C#Professionals
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
One of FACEnetwork’s main area of work is on the issue of food safety. During the last years, FACEnetwork has gained a very good expertise in this topic by working on the elaboration of a European Guide for Good Hygiene Practices (GGHP) for farmhouse and artisan cheese and dairy producers. This project was funded by the European Commission, and it resulted in a Community guide pursuant to article 9 of Regulation (EC) N°852/2004 on the hygiene foodstuffs. This Guide was officially endorsed by the Standing Committee PAFF on 13th December 2016 and is now published on the European Commission website, on the DG Health and Food Safety pages:
http://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/biosafety/food_hygiene/guidanceOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared