Day 1
| Day One – 8 November 2011 |
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| 08:15 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:10 | Opening Remarks from the Chair |
| 09:15 | Combating Food Losses in the Supply Chain
- A global view of current challenges - Solutions, projects and success factors of the METRO GROUP in the entire supply chain with focus on food losses - Sustainable food and feed production - Logistics and management in the stores Nina-Alexandra von Radowitz, Head of Sustainability and Environment, METRO AG, Germany |
| 09:45 | Panel Discussion: Strategies to Reduce Food Waste in the EU
Selina Juul, Founder, Stop Wasting Food, Denmark Stephane Arditi, Senior Policy Officer Products & Waste, EEB, Belgium Stephanie Mantell, Sustainable Consumption and Eco-Behaviour, Brussels Environment, Belgium Nina-Alexandra von Radowitz, Head of Sustainability and Environment, METRO AG, Germany |
| 10:15 | Current Food Labelling and its Impact on Consumer Behaviour. The Future of “Best Before” Labelling
Dr. Birgit VAN TONGELEN, Policy Officer, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission |
| 10:45 | Questions |
| 11:00 | Refreshments |
| 11:30 | Keynote Address
The European Commission’s Actions to Prevent and Reduce Waste Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment * |
| 12:00 | Questions |
| 12:10 | Food Waste Prevention in the Foodservice Industry
Neil Barrett, Vice President Group Sustainable Development, Sodexo, France |
| 12:40 | Questions |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 14:20 | Special Guest Speaker
Tristram Stuart, Author / Senior Research Associate, University of Sussex, UK
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| 14:50 | Questions |
| Member States’ Actions to Combat Food Waste | |
| 15:00 | Government Initiatives to Promote Food Waste Prevention in France
Gaëlle Pion, Project Manager – Support to People in Need and Food Waste Prevention, Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing, France |
| 15:20 | Tackling Food Waste in the UK: The Impact of ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ and Voluntary Agreements with the Food Industry
Andrew Parr, Consumer Food Waste Prevention Programme Manager, WRAP, UK |
| 15:40 | Fixing Government Targets and Developing Action Plans to Tackle Food Waste Prevention and Food Waste in the Netherlands
Senior Representative, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands |
| 16:00 | Questions |
| 16:15 | Refreshments |
| 16:35 | Case Study: The FoodCycle Project – Transforming Waste into a Resource
- Identifying the major challenges and solutions - The model and its limitations - Outlook for the future Kelvin Cheung, CEO, FoodCycle, UK |
| 17:05 | Helping Consumer Minimise Food Waste – The Achievements of Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark
Selina Juul, Founder, Stop Wasting Food, Denmark |
| 17:35 | Questions |
| 17:50 | Chair’s Closing Remarks |
| 17:55 | End of the First Day of the Conference |
