Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
6
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Safe Food Advocacy Europe (SAFE)
EU Transparency Register
104500414872-61 First registered on 05 Nov 2014
Goals / Remit
Improve the way the interests of ordinary citizens are represented in the EU debate concerning the future of EU food regulation. Letting our voices be heard by the key people involved in the EU legislation process!
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… Transparency will be crucial in our lobbying strategy and our voice will be heard.
Informing: organization of seminars, training for consumers concerning reading food labels (the meanings of E650 or E450), additives, colors, pesticides and GMO. Raising awareness of the food system industry and all damage to consumer health and to the environment.
Give voice to reputable scientists whose voices have been silenced by the agro food industry. Organizing seminars with those scientists and publishing their researches on our website.
Organizing with many schools in different Member States training programmes for children and teenagers concerning industrial food components. Teaching new generations about additives, colors and pesticides. Industry usually organize this kind of training for school, we should let our voices be heard.
Research: finding funds for independent research on industrial food components and direct consequences for consumer`s health (DG Research).Main EU files targeted
1) EFSA’s draft protocol for the assessment of free sugars from all dietary sources
2) The European Commission implementing regulation on “provision of voluntary indication on the origin or place of provenance of foods in the EU”
3) Endocrine disruptors and the draft Commission acts setting out scientific criteria for their
determination in the context of the EU legislation on plant protection products and biocidal products.
4) The European Commission consultation on “transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment model in the food chain”
5) The European Parliament initiative report regarding the reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
6) Regulation Proposal on organic production and labelling of organic products.
7) Food waste and sustainable food.
8) EU food labelling
9) The European Commission’s consultation on “the initiative to limit industrial trans fats intakes in the EU”
10) EU vegan and vegtarian legisaltion.
11) Legislation on food contact materials (FCM).
12) Reduce sugar consumption.
13) Possibility for Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory;
Amending Directive 2001/18/EC.
14) Proposal for a Regulation on Novel Foods (nanomaterials, cloning of animals for food production).Address
Head Office
Mundo B Rue d’Edimbourg 26
Bruxelles 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 7 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
6 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Sep 2018
Name Start date End Date PANAGIOTA NIAROU 25 Apr 2024 25 Apr 2026 PANAGIOTA NIAROU 14 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Francisco Maria De Araujo Vasquez 13 Jan 2024 10 Jan 2025 Daemon Ortega Froysa 08 Nov 2023 07 May 2024 Cecilia D'Acunto 13 Jan 2024 10 Jan 2025 GAIA ALINA GIORGIO FEDI 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Antonio De Carluccio 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Joris ROUILLON 28 Oct 2023 25 Oct 2024 Luigi Tozzi 29 Apr 2023 27 Apr 2024 Floriana Cimmarusti 02 Jun 2023 31 May 2024 Federica GRASSI 29 Apr 2023 21 Mar 2024 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Joris ROUILLON 21 Mar 2023 30 Sep 2023 Marine BASTIN 14 Mar 2023 27 Jul 2023 Ms Diellëza Gashi 11 Mar 2023 27 Jul 2023 Manon RICHARD 01 Dec 2022 01 Dec 2023 PANAGIOTA NIAROU 01 Dec 2022 14 Oct 2023 Ms SABINA ELENA MIRĂUȚĂ 25 Nov 2022 12 Mar 2023 Ms JULIE FRANCIOLI 25 Nov 2022 11 Mar 2023 Ms Carla VALEIRAS ALVAREZ 20 Oct 2022 27 Jul 2023 Floriana Cimmarusti 15 Jul 2022 02 Jun 2023 Ms Maëlle Labomme 29 Jun 2022 22 Nov 2022 Clara BOTTON 29 Jun 2022 01 Nov 2022 Louise Pilot 13 Apr 2022 11 Sep 2022 Federica DOLCE 12 Apr 2022 11 Sep 2022 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 08 Apr 2022 08 Apr 2023 Federica GRASSI 07 Apr 2022 07 Apr 2023 Luigi Tozzi 07 Apr 2022 07 Apr 2023 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 07 Mar 2020 01 Oct 2020 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 28 Aug 2019 28 Feb 2020 Mr Bruno Menne 06 Aug 2019 06 Aug 2020 Floriana Cimmarusti 08 Jun 2019 06 Jun 2020 Mr Rossetti Federico 08 Jun 2019 21 Dec 2019 Ms Giulia Migliozzi 23 Mar 2019 01 Oct 2019 Ms Justine Radel 15 Mar 2019 01 Sep 2019 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 26 Feb 2019 26 Aug 2019 Ms Alexandra LISI 26 Feb 2019 04 Aug 2019 Mr Bruno Menne 26 Feb 2019 06 Aug 2019 Alicia Bé 26 Feb 2019 06 Jun 2019 Ms Katharina Wachter 25 Jan 2019 06 Jun 2019 Alicia Bé 09 Nov 2018 26 Feb 2019 Ms Alexandra LISI 21 Sep 2018 26 Feb 2019 Mr Antoine D'HAESE 04 Sep 2018 01 Feb 2019 Ms Charlotte Festa 04 Sep 2018 26 Jan 2019 Ms Oona Buttafoco 04 Sep 2018 15 Mar 2019 Mr Bruno Menne 31 Aug 2018 26 Feb 2019 Ms Chiara GRANIERI 29 May 2018 01 Aug 2018 Floriana Cimmarusti 25 Apr 2018 25 Apr 2019 Ms Marielle HIRWA 17 Mar 2018 01 Oct 2018 Mr Bruno Menne 16 Mar 2018 31 Aug 2018 Ms Yasmina YAKIMOVA 09 Feb 2018 01 Jun 2018 Mr Pier Francesco RONFINI 13 Oct 2017 01 Feb 2018 Ms Chiara GRANIERI 06 Oct 2017 01 May 2018 Ms Ines Boursot 21 Sep 2017 09 Feb 2018 Mr Anthony TOURTOIS 20 Jul 2017 04 Oct 2017 Ms Alexandra LISI 12 May 2017 01 Oct 2017 Ms Ines Boursot 25 Apr 2017 11 Aug 2017 Floriana Cimmarusti 05 Apr 2017 04 Apr 2018 Mr Bruno Menne 20 Mar 2017 21 Jul 2017 Ms Laure GUILLEVIC 21 Feb 2017 16 Aug 2017 Mr Bruno Menne 10 Oct 2016 05 Mar 2017 Ignacio GENTILUOMO 11 Oct 2016 09 Dec 2016 Ms Ines Boursot 11 Oct 2016 10 Apr 2017 Ms Rosalie Maalouf 13 May 2016 31 Aug 2016 Mr Florian Lucas 09 Mar 2016 07 Sep 2016 Floriana Cimmarusti 10 Feb 2016 08 Feb 2017 Mr Antoine LEBESSIS 10 Oct 2015 08 Oct 2016 Ms Amanda SIA THIEBA 10 Oct 2015 09 Mar 2016 Floriana Cimmarusti 11 Feb 2015 09 Feb 2016 Complementary Information
Among those 7 people, only 3 are employees, the 4 others are interns working at SAFE.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Floriana Cimmarusti (Secretary General)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Floriana Cimmarusti (Secretary General)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
We are a member of EPHA, the European Public Health Alliance
Website: https://epha.orgMember organisations
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.
AdipositasHilfe Nord e.V.
Germany
Website:http://www.adipositashilfe-nord.de
AdipositasHilfe Nord e.V. was founded in 2013 as a patient organisation to support obese people and groups. Their main goals are the recognition of obesity as a disease and the prevention of childhood obesity.
Amici Obesi
Italy
Website: http://www.amiciobesi.it
Amici Obesi was created in 2005 to meet the information needs of obesity as a disease recognized by institutions and the possible treatments for it.
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.
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 non-violent 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.
Društvo za permakulturo
Slovenia
Website:http://permakultura.si
ruštvo za permakulturo is one of the first organisations for permaculture in Slovenia. It was created in 1996. It’s main activity is to promote permaculture through education and networking with individuals and organisations by involving them in common projects.
ECOG
Belgium
Website: www.ecog-obesity.eu
The European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) is a pan-European group of professionals dealing with childhood obesity and overweight. ECOG brings together experts from across Europe including: paediatricians, psychologists, nutritionists, geneticists, physical activity experts, economists and many more. The group was founded in 1991 and its mission is to help the European community at large to fully understand the health, social, psychological and economic impacts of childhood obesity and work together to take this growing problem off the menu in Europe.
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.
Green School Village
Bulgaria
Website: http://greenschoolvillage.org/?lang=en
Green School Village is a non-profit association, established in Bulgaria in public benefit. It works for the harmonious development of the human personality and the sustainable life of the communities. The organisation involves an interdisciplinary team of people with different education and professional background – architects, urbanists, lawyers, marketing experts, cultural studies experts etc. who are united by their common interests in permaculture, natural building and learning as a process continuing through the whole life.
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.
SONVE
Italy
Website: http://www.sonve.eu
SONVE is a nonprofit and voluntary organisation which aims to inform about plant-based nutrition scientific issues. SONVE stands for Società Scientifica di Nutrizione Vegetale (Scientific Society on Plant-based Nutrition) and accepts only health professional memberships. It carries out activities in biomedical research fields as well as information and training for doctors, biologists, dietitians and other health professionals. SONVE also provides information and interviews to media (TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, Socials) and group scientists and people concerned with plant-based nutrition into Committees, each studying a specific issue. Committees aim to produce SONVE position papers on such issues. The peculiarity of the Committees is a scientific cooperation approach among experts in order to exchange and update knowledge on the studied subject, by a reappraisal of the scientific literature on it, and by means of tailored research project designs, which SONVE will support.
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
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
SAFE members are small consumer associations and vegan and vegetarian organizations. It is a very small ASBL and most people working for SAFE are traineeships or people working on voluntary basis. For this reason our budget is really low.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
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…- Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
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.
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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)
- European Food Banks Federation
- FERRERO International
- EuroCommerce
- Valio Oy
- Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés
- FoodServiceEurope
- Cattaneo Zanetto & Co.
- Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic
- Slow Food
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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 -
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 -
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
- Meetings