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Associazione Industriali delle Carni e dei Salumi

ASSICA

ASSICA is the Italian national organization representing the industrial meat and deli meats supply chain.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Michele Picaro (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

29 Jan 2026 · Cardiovascular disease

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament) and A2A

20 Jan 2026 · legislative update

Meeting with Pierre Bascou (Deputy Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and

19 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on the difficulties encountered by Bresaola producers in Italy to find certain type of beef

Meeting with Brigitte Misonne (Acting Director Agriculture and Rural Development)

17 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on the maximum water/protein ratio applicable under certain beef TRQs (tariff-rate quotas)

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament) and Federazione Italiana dell'Industria Alimentare and Associazione Italiana Lattiero Casearia

19 May 2025 · legislative updates

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Feb 2025 · AGRI INI on “How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases”.

Meeting with Mariateresa Vivaldini (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Oct 2024 · Meeting conoscitivo

Meeting with Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

1 Mar 2023 · Trade agenda, market access for meat products, sustainability

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

15 Nov 2022 · ASSICA Sustainability Programme

Meeting with Álvaro Amaro (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

27 Sept 2022 · A reforma das Indicações Geográficas - setor das carnes e enchidos

Meeting with Sandra Gallina (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

9 Feb 2021 · “Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan”

Response to Setting of nutrient profiles

22 Jan 2021

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Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

11 Jan 2021 · Farm to Fork strategy

Meeting with Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis), Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and Associazione Italiana Lattiero Casearia

8 Dec 2020 · Farm to Fork and trade policy

Meeting with Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

28 Oct 2020 · Online & Offline Platforms

Meeting with Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

28 Oct 2020 · online and offline platforms

Meeting with Roberta Torre (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

9 Oct 2020 · The meeting focused on the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork strategy and its implications for Italian companies involved in the industrial production of pork and beef products, pork slaughtering, and in the processing of other meat-based foodstuffs.

Meeting with Angela D'Elia (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

8 May 2020 · Meeting to discuss the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis for the agri-food sector. An overview was given on the situation of the milk & meat sector in Italy and the challenges they face.

Response to Farm to Fork Strategy

16 Mar 2020

CONTRIBUTION TO THE “FARM TO FORK” STRATEGY With this note, the writing Association representing the Italian meat manufacturers, Italian pork slaughterhouses and the vast majority of Italian PDO and PGI deli meats (16 Group of producers representing 22 PDO and PGI of our sector), would like bring to your attention what we believe the forthcoming “Farm to Fork Strategy” for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system cannot fail to include: 1. A COMMON FOOD POLICY TAILOR MADE FOR PROCESSING COMPANIES Such a systemic approach (separated from the CAP) is the only solution which can meet the ambitions of the UN 2030 Agenda. The European Common Food Policy could be able to: a) Acknowledge the added value of the processing Industry and what it has already done and is doing to: I. Improve the nutritional profiles of its products; II. Reduce the environmental impacts of its activities, III. Guarantee the availability and access to a varied and healthy diet for all social strata IV. Increase the durability of food products, with beneficial effects in terms of reducing food waste b) Move towards food systems that deliver sufficient, safe and affordable food in the full respect of the European traditions and culture; c) Inform about dietary patterns beneficial for health, the environment and climate; d) Promote a definition of sustainability which should be economic, social and environmental at the same time; e) Provide for financial tools which can help also processing companies, especially SMEs and those highlighted in the box above, to face the challenges related to the green transition. 2. AN INTERNAL MA RKET DEAL The Single Market is a crucial condition for a good performance of the European economy. A robust Single Market is a key instrument for both the overall health and stability of the European Union, and for the implementation of the Green Deal and the “Farm to Fork Strategy”. We regret that the overlapping of a variety of National and EU rules on origin labelling starting from the 1st of April 2020 for meat and milk and the growing number of different and over-simplistic Front-of-Pack (FoP) nutrition labelling schemes are evidences of the lack of maintenance of the Single Market for food and they have triggered its fundamental fragmentation. On origin labelling both National Governments (by notifying the extension of their Decrees or introducing new ones) and the European Commission (first by accepting those for a ‘limited testing period’, then by not clearly and firmly opposing any prolongation of these ‘testing periods’ beyond 1st of April 2020) are creating a barrier to the Single Market and huge legal uncertainty among operators as they do not know which rules to apply. There is a growing feeling of frustration, just in a time when the European Institutions are asking significant additional efforts to support the EU Green Deal ambitions. The ambitious objective to transform Europe into the first climate neutral continent by 2050 will require an impressive effort from the food sector and our sector will need the full support of the European Union to fully play our role. Today - in this very context –, we regret to be in a position to have to remind the European institutions, including the European Commission as guardian of the treaties, of their task to protect our Internal Market. In a context of uncertainty it is very, very difficult to fully engage in new obligations. We welcome and support the Green Deal including its sustainability challenges but ask the European Commission for a very basic guarantee: protect our Single Market and stop the fragmentation of the internal market and the distortions of competition caused by re-nationalisation of parts of the European food law! 3. REFERENCES TO ONLY WELL CONSOLIDATED SCIENCE We expect the “farm to fork “strategy to favor a discussion on sustainable food systems based on reliable data and without quoting controversial studies. The transition to sustainab
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Meeting with Marco Valletta (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

26 Nov 2018 · ASF

Response to Commission Implementing Regulation on the provision of voluntary indication of origin or place of provenance of foods

19 Jan 2018

ASSICA very much supports the document and we do appreciate the outstanding progress made by the Commission and Member States in developing the draft text and we hope that final agreement on the Implementing Regulation can be found as soon as possible. This is because an harmonized approach is urgently needed to make a step forward towards the implementation of the origin labelling requirements laid down in the Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 and to reinforce the Single Market for foodstuffs. What is more, we trust that the setting of harmonized rules at EU level will discourage any (further) Member State from adopting individual approaches and initiatives on mandatory country of origin labelling, which jeopardize the integrity of the Single Market.
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Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana

1 Mar 2017 · Origin labelling

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

19 Oct 2016 · Voluntary labelling of origins

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

21 Sept 2015 · Business discussion

Meeting with Elisabetta Siracusa (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

20 Sept 2015 · 1. Pig meat market situation 2. Unfair Commercial practices along the food supply chain;4. Fragmentation of the Internal market;5. Key challenges in bilateral relations with Third Countries.

Meeting with Carlo Zadra (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

30 Jun 2015 · Single Market for Food