Overview
Lobbying Costs
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Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
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High-level Commission meetings
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Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Transparency for Organic Word Association (TOWA)
EU Transparency Register
048877237576-45 First registered on 09 Mar 2020
Goals / Remit
TOWA (Transparency for Organic Wine Association) is a consumer group comprising organic winegrowers and researchers (doctors, biologists, toxicologists, agronomists and lawyers) who are working together to launch a publication that lists in the ingredients in organic wines. Their objective is to fill the legal loopholes within the European regulations concerning the finished «organic wine» product in order to protect public health. This transparency over the ingredients in organic wines enables consumers to make an objective choice when purchasing wine, in the same way that they can when looking at ingredients in food products. On the scientific front, by their existing projects, by promoting scientific research generally, and by sharing knowledge of natural and innovative methods with production associates with a view to making wine production free from pesticides and endocrine disruptors commercial on an international scale.
Main EU files targeted
REGULATION (EU) 2018/848 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety
The European Green Deal and specifically on:
- Clean energy
- Sustainable industry
- Building and renovating
- Sustainable mobility
- Biodiversity
- From Farm to Fork
- Eliminating pollution
Market studies
Research enables the European Commission to find out how well a particular sector works for consumers.
Market studies investigate issues that have an impact on the functioning of the market for consumers such as choice, quality, safety, health, sustainability, prices and information, as well as consumer understanding, behaviour and decision making. Study findings canbe then used to inform policy-making.
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Head Office
Paul-Morandini
Boulevard de Meuse 44
Jambes 5100
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People
Total lobbyists declared
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Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
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III - Non-governmental organisations
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Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
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Member organisations
https://www.transparencyorganicwine.org/fr/ngo.html
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Communication activities
TOWA, in conjunction with MEP Michèle RIVASI, have launched a comparative study analysing the residues of any pesticides and/or endocrine disruptors found in both organic and conventional wines across 9 countries: France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Greece, USA, Chile and Australia. This expertise, made public on 3 april 2019 from the expert collaboration of the Dubernet laboratory, which has been jointly commissioned by the National Institute of Origin and Quality, FranceAgriMer and the International Organisation of Vines and Wine – renowned internationally for its authority on science and methods in grapevines and wines.
According to Olivier PAUL-MORANDINI, Founder of TOWA and of the 112 project in Europe, “this comparative study of 148 molecules capable of being found in wine joins a long line of earlier case law in the Court of Justice of the European Union (EUCJ) of 7 March 2019. The interests of wine drinkers in being able to access information about health and the environment must outweigh commercial interests and must extend to information about the entirety of molecules in wine (inputs and additives)”.
In May 2017, four MEPs - including Michèle RIVASI - from the Green/ALE political group filed a case against the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) to have a full access to 12 studies on the toxicity and carcinogenic properties of Glyphosate and used to renew market authorisation of the substance. The EUCJ annulled the EFSA decisions that denied access to details of these studies – with the Court characterising EFSA’s decision as having been “improperly imposed by industry to the detriment of health”
Press conférences at the European Parliament 12th December 2018 and 4th April 2019Other activities
The European Consumer Consultative Group (ECCG)
European Consumer Centres Network - ECC Net
Meetings
Meetings
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Date 18 Sep 2020 Location Video conference Subject Transparency for the consumer as regards the risk of pesticides residues in wine and particularly organic wine Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)