Welcome to the European Dairy Association
EDA is the association of the European dairy industry working on their common interests towards stakeholders such as the EU institutions the Commission, Parliament, Council of Ministers, Economic and Social Committee… and the international bodies the Codex Alimentarius, the World Trade Organization....
EDA is the platform for the European dairy industry to work together on main items like policy developments on nutrition and health, on food safety, on sustainability and on market management as part of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
NEWS:
Temporary Replacement at EDA as Nutrition Policies Officer
EDA is looking for an Officer “Nutrition Policies” as temporary 7 to 8-month replacement starting on 14 May 2012. Find more information on the offered position in the job description here. Application deadline is 20 February 2012.
EDA Policy Conference on saturated fat and dairy for health
EDA will hold a policy conference in February 2012 at which occasion renowned scientists will present latest developments in science on saturated fat and the importance of dairy for health, followed by a panel discussion on the topic of how scientific data is translated into the EU public health policy.
Dairy descriptors for the use of additives in food are now available
A new regulation listing all additives authorised in the EU and its use levels has been published, based on a fully new system of categorisation of foods. In order to help in the understanding of the new categorisation EDA has established a list of descriptors for the dairy categories, describing the food covered by each subcategory. The document can be found here.
EDA World Dairy Forum Presentations are online!
This year’s EDA World Dairy Forum focused on 3 topics: “Retailers, the other participants in the dairy supply chain”, “Biotechnology: innovations creating opportunities and challenges for the dairy sector” and “Generic promotion: working on the positioning of EU dairy products”. The presentations are available on www.eda2011.eu.
Latest edition of EDA's Major Issues is out!
The Major Issues, covering the 1st Semester of 2011, is available in English on our website. It resumes the evolution of the main dossiers influencing the activity of the European dairy industry during that period. Discover the new edition here.
The speech of Mr. Werner Buck, President of EDA, is available online
The speech was given by EDA President, Mr. Werner Buck, on the occasion of the Annual EDA/Assifonte Cocktail in Brussels on 19 January 2011. To access the text please go here.
The Green Paper website is becoming main feature for communication on GHG emissions reduction in the dairy sector
With the launch of the Dairy Sustainability Initiative the dairy sector opened the so-called Green Paper website as the location to present GHG emissions reduction projects all along the dairy production and consumption chain. In the meantime this website has become a main feature in the communication on GHG emissions reduction projects in the dairy sector. When you are working on, or planning, any such a project, please consider publishing your project on Green Paper website.
For more information please go to the archive 2010 here.
The Dairy Supply Chain Revisited - 3rd February 2010
A seminar on perspectives of market mechanisms in the dairy supply chain was held on Wednesday 3rd February 2010. The event has gathered EU officials, member states representatives, stakeholders. The full programme and presentations are in the archive 2010 available here.
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