The 34th meeting of the Advisory Forum

On 25 and 26 November EFSA’s Advisory Forum holds the 34th meeting in Athens.

Draft agenda

1. Welcome and opening of the meeting
    
2. Adoption of the  agenda(143.2 KB)
    
3. General matters arising since the 33rd Advisory Forum meeting
   • Management Board meeting in Parma on 7-8 October 2009
   • Commissioner Vassiliou’s visit to EFSA on 16 October 2009
   • Scientific Committee meetings in Parma on 29-30 September 2009 and in Brussels on 17 November 2009
   • SGC meeting in Dublin on 16 October 2009
   • Special AF meeting on plant health in Parma on 20-21 October 2009
   • AFCWG meeting in Prague on 21-22 October 2009
   • Report of the GMO conference in Brussels on 14-15 September 2009
   • National expert meeting on health claims in Brussels on 6 October 2009
   • National expert meeting on aspartame in Porto on 10-11November 2009
   • Scientific colloquium on ‘What’s new on Novel Foods’ in Amsterdam on 19-20 November 2009
   • Botanicals workshop in Athens on 24 November 2009
   • Other general matters
      
4. Update on the 7th Framework programme of DG RESEARCH
    
5. Emerging issues
   • Follow up on emerging issues raised at the previous AF meeting
   • France: National Vigilance Plan for Food Supplements
   • Norway: Handling of diverging scientific opinions by EFSA and by Member States
   • Other emerging issues
      
6. Cooperation between EFSA and the Member States
   • Cooperation in the FEEDAP area
   • ESCO working group on non-plastic food contact materials
   • ESCO working group on isoflavones