Summer Academyon Global Food Law & Policy

26-30 July 2010 Villa La Collina CadenabbiaAlberto Alemanno

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Aims Programme Moot Court Challenges Tour de table Beyond Food Law

Aims

To discuss legal/policy food issues in an informal setting

To meet/interact with food experts coming from: Public authorities (national, EU, int’l) Industry Regulatory/legal experts Academics

To go beyond your daily practice (beyond food law) To tell your ‘food story’ To have fun and relax in a beautiful venue

Programme

Refresh (level playing field) BELLAGIO

New frontiers of Food Law & future of EFSA Nitty gritty of EU food law (industry/policy

maker perspectives) Food quality (US and int’l perspective) COMO Data sharing, protection & compensation Key note speech & Q&A Moot Court

Moot Court

Case on Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) 6 teams You will receive:

CoOL Case study (doc 1) CoOL Regulation (doc 2) CoOL Relevant Law (doc 3) CoOL Extra information (informally)

Not in your material because: Surprise effect! You will be notified your team soon (post)

Challenges

Strike a balance btw rigor and relevance Diversity: age, professional, experience,

background, preferences, etc our success!

Long days/Intensive experience Overinformation Bubble effect

Tour de table

Who Where Why

Your ‘food story’ (it happend to you, sth you like/dislike, you cook it, you read it …)

Beyond food law (the ‘food phenomenon’) Food today brought into mainstream of advocacy for

social change Food as agent of social change Food movement, consumer empowerment, slow food, etc

Various approaches to food - historical, cultural, behavioural, biological and socioeconomic –merged into food studies

Food studies are feeding other emerging industries: food journalism, food movies, etc

To go ‘beyond food law’ is both necessary and fun!

Beyond Food Law

Wiki idea on:movies, books, literature on food

Time to start off