1. At the beginning of your mandate President Juncker invited you to analyse the possibility of simplifying the current EU quality policy. Since then a year has passed by. Have you taken any decision on this and if yes could you please specify the upcoming proposal and agenda? Simplification of...
This year’s European harvest should increase by 2.7% compared to 2014 and to the average of the last five years according to the EU’s recently published data on the first harvest estimates for the 28 Member States. Italy is the European leader for 2015 (and thus the leading world producer) with an...
Brussels, 12 October 2015. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, has actively participated to the debates that took place at the Geographical Indication (GI) World Assembly meeting which was organised today at EXPO Milan. GI organisations and producers from all over the world came together...
The conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the US is one of the EU’s priorities for 2015. Can the wine sector benefit from this agreement? Yes, certainly. Nowadays, the US is our largest export market. Wine consumption in the US has significantly increased in the last decade and is...
28 May Brussels. The European Federation of Origin Wines (EFOW), the Brussels-based organisation representing Geographical Indications (GIs) wines, welcomes the positive outcome of today’s vote in the European Parliament’s international trade (INTA) committee on MEP Lange’s report on the TTIP...
The conclusion of the TTIP seems to be on top of the Commission’s agenda for 2015. The EU wine producers consider that these negotiations provide the perfect opportunity to secure a better protection of their Geographical Indications in the US. What is the position of the European Parliament on this...
London, June 25, 2014. At ICANN50, Governments have failed to reach a consensus. The demand advanced by EU delegations to suspend the delegation of “.wine” and “.vin” was not taken into consideration. There is no longer any obstacle to a delegation of these domain names by...
In less than 3 days, ICANN’s 50th session will be taking place in London (22-26 June). The wine sector denounces some governments’ intervention that lead to the failure of negotiations between the sector and the candidate companies to the “.wine” and “.vin”. It deeply regrets...
In view of the upcoming European Elections – 25 May – EFOW has decided to ask candidate MEPs to position themselves on a number of issues regarding the wine sector. In this roadmap, EFOW establishes a brief assessment of the current legislature 2009-2014 and presents the challenges that...