SAFE

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Action on Sugar
United Kingdom
website: http://www.actiononsugar.org/index.html
Action on Sugar is a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on health. It is successfully
working to reach a consensus with the food industry and Government over the harmful effects of a high
sugar diet, and bring about a reduction in the amount of sugar in processed foods.

Adiconsum
Italy
Website: http://adiconsum.it/
Adiconsum is a consumer organization with over 140,000 members formed in 1987 on the initiative of
the CISL. It is present throughout the national territory with local, provincial and regional offices where
its leaders and its operators render individual and collective protection for consumers and their families.

Associazione Vegani Italiani Onlus
Italy
Website: http://www.assovegan.it/
The Italian Vegan Association is a nonprofit
organization, our mission is to make veganism an easilyadopted
and widelyrecognised
approach to reducing animal and human suffering and environmental
damage. We do so through a nonviolent approach and through open and factual dialogue with others
vegan, humanitarian and environment organizations.

Association Végétarienne de France
France
Website: http://www.vegetarisme.fr/
The Vegetarian Association of France runs various actions to promote the vegetarian diet in France. They
help everyday vegetarians and people who choose to reduce their meat consumption.

Associazione Vegetariana Italiana
Italy
Website: http://www.vegetariani.it/
In 1952 under the impulse of Aldo Capitini, teacher of Moral Philosophy at the University of Perugia, the
first organisation, the Società Vegetariana (Vegetarian Society), was set up. Moving from the belief that
human nourishment cannot be based on the death of other living beings, Aldo Capitini started to reflect
upon vegetarianism as a choice consequential to his nonviolent
engagement. The name changed in
1970 to Associazione Vegetariana Italiana, but the evolution continued, getting in every respect in the
European and worldwide vegetarian movement.

Djurens Rätt
Sweden
Website: http://www.djurensratt.se/
Djurens Rätt (Animal Rights Sweden) is the leading animal rights organisation in Scandinavia, with a membership of about 35 000. The organisation was founded in 1882 with the mission to end painful
animal experiments. Since the 1970’s, Djurens Rätt is also working on other issues, especially farm
animals, fur farming and animal friendly consumer guidance. Djurens Rätt is an animal rights
organisation opposed to all experiments, procedures, production methods and other uses of animals that
cause them pain, suffering and distress.

Fondazione Allineare Sanità & Salute
Italy
Website:http://fondazioneallinearesanitaesalute.org/
The studies centre Fondazione Allineare Sanità & Salute was founded in 2013 with the aim at providing
research support, knowledge and strategies to healthcare systems in order to overcome the conflict of
interest in the field of Health which involves a growing number of stakeholders. It carries out activities of
biomedical research, information and vocational training for doctors and other health professionals
through communication tools of scientific content, and for citizens and patients through cards of
scientific divulgation aimed at promoting costeffective
healthcare with generic and equivalent medicines
for a better lifestyle.

Il Test Salvagente
Italy
Website:https://ilsalvagente.it/
Il Test Salvagente is a monthly Italian newspaper that offers comparative tests to consumers, based on
the work of agencies and independent laboratories. It’s a tool that isn’t part of any consumer association
but is open to all. It’s a source of comparative tests that communicates on most of the market
companies.

Sugar Wise
United Kingdom
Website: http://sugarwise.org/
The Sugarwise marque is the world’s only certification for levels of sugar in food and drink. The marque
provides consumers with instant, clear information about the health claims of a product, inspiring trust
in brands and helping consumers to make a healthier choice at the point of sale. Our patented
Sugarwise test provides the only means of analytically determining the concentration of free sugars in
food and drink products without relying on information supplied by the manufacturer.

The Vegan Society
United Kingdom
Website: http://www.vegansociety.com/
The Vegan Society is a registered charity for education in veganism and plantbased
solutions for the
benefit of humans, nonhumans
and the planet. They strive to make vegan living straightforward, and a
widely recognised way to end exploitation of nonhuman
animals, and reduce exploitation of humans
and our environment.
The Vegan Society is the first and oldest vegan organisation in the world, cofounded
in the UK in 1944
by a group of six including Donald Watson and Elsie Shrigley. These six people coined the term, ‘vegan’ …
and so a movement was born. The Vegan Society lobbies policymakers on plantbased and veganfriendly policy solutions, conducts research and gives media interviews, supports individual vegans and
advises professionals such as doctors, teachers and chefs on how to properly provide veganfriendly
services. The Vegan Trademark team there work to provide clearly labelled registered products and
encourage businesses to offer a better range of veganfriendly
options.

The Vegan Society of Ireland
Ireland
Website: http://www.vegan.ie/
The Vegan Society of Ireland has been actively promoting Veganism and Animal Rights in Ireland since
2009. Vegan Ireland is a nonprofit and voluntary organisation.

The Vegan Society of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Website: https://www.vsl.lu/portal
The Vegan Society Luxembourg (VSL) is a nonprofit
organization, founded in 2010. The mission of the
VSL is to promote veganism by distributing information, planning events such as conferences, cooking
classes and discussions. The VSL is very successful in hosting an annual vegan brunch, which attracts
more than 600 visitors. The cooperation with other likeminded
groups is also an important part of the
society.

VeganOk
Italy
Website: https://www.veganok.com/it/chisiamo/
VeganOK is part of an innovative ethical project conceived and strongly wanted by the Italian group
NRG30 Srl. It is characterized and supported in ethical communication by the tenyear
experience of
Promiseland.it, by the first Italian webdictionary
of EcoCosmetics,
BioDizionario.it, as well as by
VeganWIZ.com and Veganblog.it which are the most followed networks of ethical vegan cooking.
Furthermore, since 2011 the certification VeganOK is supported and promoted by VeganFest.it that is
the biggest vegan event in Europe.

Végétik
Belgium
Website: http://www.vegetik.org/
The main objective of Végétik is informing and educate people about the effects of animal protein
consumption. We have four areas of information: environmental impacts, health issues, conditions of
animal welfare & distribution of resources.

Voedingsunie
The Netherlands
Website: http://www.voedingsunie.nl/
Voedingsunie is an independent association that acts as an advocate for consumers. Through constant
dialog with our members, supporters and others involved we can create a powerful sound. In doing so
we can enter into a discussion with the Dutch government about tighter legislation and we can put
important issues on the political agenda. This leads to more honest and transparent information about
food production and content, which will help consumers make better dietary choices.

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

9,999€

SAFE members are small consumer associations and vegan and vegetarian organizations. It is a very small ASBL and the people working for SAFE are traineeships or people working on voluntary basis. For this reason our budget is really low.

DG Santé - Advisory Group for the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health

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This is the activity of the year.
Lobbying: The Food sector has become one of the most heavily regulated in the European Union, with an increasing number of Regulations directly addressing consumers and businesses of each Member State. It is in Brussels that the EU Institutions, the politics and the agro food business decide the future of our food system and it is in this city that the Safe Food Advocacy Europe association (SAFE) should build a serious lobbying transparency strategy. Too many lobbyist work in Brussels to defend interests of the agro food business. The food industries is focusing on business interest and not on consumer health. Therefore professional lobbyists will work for SAFE and they will be in close contact with all key persons involved in the EU legislation process, including Members of the European Parliament, officials of the European Commission, attaché of Permanent Representation to the EU etc…

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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	FERRERO International EuroCommerce Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés Valio Oy FoodServiceEurope Cattaneo Zanetto & Co. Slow Food Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic European Food Banks Federation Independent Retail Europe (formerly UGAL - Union of Groups of Independent Retailers of Europe)

• Date	05 Jun 2020	Location	Brussles
  Subject	VC Meeting - Farm to Fork
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group European Environmental Bureau European Coordination Via Campesina Slow Food Compassion in World Farming Brussels

• Date	06 Dec 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Statement on food waste measurement methodology
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Global Feedback Ltd

• Date	09 Dec 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Acrylamide
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Corporate Europe Observatory