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EFOW’s Seminar | Opportunities and challenges for Geographical Indication wines in the online market
Hosted by Paolo De Castro MEP and Herbert Dorfmann MEP
Tuesday 4 December 2018, 10h30-12h30 | European Parliament – room ASP 3H1
Welcome address by Herbert Dorfmann MEP
Brief Introduction by EFOW’s President, Mr. Bernard Farges...
Brussels, 09 April 2021 – EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, has taken part to the EC public consultation on the revision of the Geographical Indications (GI) schemes. EFOW calls on the European Commission to build upon the compromises emerging from the ongoing CAP reform and to refrain from creating a Single Regulation and...
Brussels, 29 March 2021 – During the supertrilogue – in the framework of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – the co-legislators secured key points for wine appellations. EFOW’s members, the European Federation of Origin Wines, warmly welcome these major developments and hope that the reform will be finalised swiftly. During the supertrilogue...
Recipients: The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Janusz Wojciechowski The Presidency of the Portuguese Council, Minister for Agriculture Maria do Céu Antunes The rapporteur on the Common Organisation of the Markets, Mr Eric Andrieu, Member of the European Parliament Brussels, 26 January 2021 Dear Madam, dear Sirs, EFOW – the European Federation of Origin Wines...
Wine is one of Europe agriculture’s success stories | The European Parliament has played a decisive role in supporting the development of the wine sector | Quality (GI) wine producers need the support of the future European Parliament...
EFOW’s Seminar | Opportunities and challenges for Geographical Indication wines in the online market
Hosted by Paolo De Castro MEP and Herbert Dorfmann MEP
Tuesday 4 December 2018, 10h30-12h30 | European Parliament – room ASP 3H1
Welcome address by Herbert Dorfmann MEP
Brief Introduction by EFOW’s President, Mr. Bernard Farges...
The European Commission published its legislative proposal on 1 June, work in the Council is ongoing and the European Parliament’s AGRI Committee is expected to present its draft reports on this subject on 21 November. What are EFOW’s priorities? The wine sector, and more particularly Geographical Indication (GI) wines, is doing relatively well and remains...
Following the publication of the European Commission proposals on a CAP reform, EFOW is positioning itself on the major challenges for the future of wine appellations...
Brussels, Tuesday 12 December 2017. The European Parliament and the AGRI-FISH Council of Ministers have today ratified the agricultural part of the Omnibus Regulation. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, warmly welcomes this adoption. The agricultural component of the Omnibus Regulation introduces new, very positive provisions for the wine sector, particularly for wine appellations...
Brussels, 11 October 2017. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines (www.efow.eu), took part to the first G7 of Geographical Indications (GI) which took place in Bergamo (Italy) on 11 October 2017. In presence of the Italian Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Martina, host of the G7 Agriculture meeting which will be held on 14 and...
Brussels, 20 January 2021. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines (www.efow.eu), welcomes the letter sent by Mr Norbert Lins, the Chairman of the AGRI Committee of the European Parliament, on behalf of all his colleagues to Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, inviting him to contact President Biden’s administration to offer a moratorium on the application of...
Brussels, 25 June 2021 – EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, welcomes the political compromise reached by the European institutions on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during this week’s “super” trialogue. Major improvements for the development of wine appellations have been secured. For the last 3 years, EFOW and its members have been actively working on the...
Brussels, 5 March 2021. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines (www.efow.eu), welcomes the announcement by President von der Leyen, and the USTR office to suspend for an initial period of four months the retaliatory tariffs affecting the EU wine sector while seeking a definitive solution to the Airbus-Boeing dispute. The USA are by far the...
Brussels, 20 January 2021. EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines (www.efow.eu), welcomes the letter sent by Mr Norbert Lins, the Chairman of the AGRI Committee of the European Parliament, on behalf of all his colleagues to Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, inviting him to contact President Biden’s administration to offer a moratorium on the application of...
EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, and oriGIn EU, the European antenna of the global alliance of geographical Indications (GIs), take the initiative to reiterate their appreciation for the recent initiatives taken by the European Commission to reinforce the EU GI system and call on EU law-makers to adopt amendments tabled in the context of the CAP reform that will strengthen GIs...
EFOW welcomes the positive results for wine appellations of the vote in the European Parliament and the negotiations in the Council on the CAP reform. EFOW members hope that the trilogues will lead to an ambitious CAP for the sector...
Brussels, 15 September 2020 EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, which brings together the Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese wine appellations, launched a solemn appeal to the Ministers of Agriculture of the major wine-producing countries to unite to safeguard the vine planting authorisation mechanism. EFOW members call on them to build a common platform on this issue...
EFOW's presidents welcome the important flexibilities that have been introduced for the wine sector at the national and European levels but consider that the crisis is far from over...
Commissioner Wojciechowski announced during the June 9th meeting with the political coordinators of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (AGRI Committee) and the rapporteur on the CMO Delegated Acts, the preparation of a new Delegated Act before the summer on condition that the AGRI Committee withdraws its objection to the Delegated Act based on article 219 it is currently scrutinising...
EFOW, the European Federation of Origin Wines, has written to Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski to explain the dramatic situation wine appellations are facing following the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis. EFOW's members are urging the European Commission to act swiftly through concrete regulatory and market measures to help operators navigate these troubled waters...