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Sep20252025 European Cocoa Forum Malta
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Nov2024ECA General Members Meeting
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Jun202433rd ECA Cocoa Golf Tournament
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May2024PFP workshop on Mineral oil Hydrocarbons (MOH) in food
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May2024ECA General Members Meeting
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May2024ECA Board Meeting
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Feb2024The Pilot Testing of the EUDR information system
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Feb2024ECA Board Meeting
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Feb2024Amsterdam Cocoa Week
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Feb2024World Cocoa Foundation’s 2024 Partnership Meeting
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Jan2024PFP webinar: Preparing for Sustainability Reporting – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
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Nov2023ECA/CAOBISCO Meeting Joint Research Fund
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Nov2023ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Working Group Meeting Quality & Productivity
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Nov2023PFP General Assembly meeting 2023
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Nov2023ECA General Members’ Meeting
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Nov2023ECA Board Meeting
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Oct2023Webinar on EU Deforestation Regulation
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Oct2023ECA Sustainability Working Group meeting
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Oct2023EFSA 31st meeting of the EFSA Pesticide Steering Network
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Oct2023ECA Environment Working Group Meeting
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Sep2023ECA Board Meeting
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Jul2023ECA Sustainability Working Group meeting
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Jun2023PFP Board Meeting & PFP Forum
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Jun202332nd ECA Cocoa Golf Tournament
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May2023Meeting Joint Research Fund
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May2023ECA CAOBISCO Joint Working Group Meeting Pesticides and Contaminants, Quality and Productivity
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May2023ECA Sustainability Working Group
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May2023ECA General Members’ Meeting
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May2023ECA Board Meeting
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Mar2023JRF webinar “Discussing ideas for a containment strategy for diseases of major concern in cocoa”
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Feb2023ECA Board Meeting
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Jan2023Meeting of the ECA Environment Working Group
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Dec20222022 European Cocoa Forum Rome
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Dec2022ECA/International Trade Centre Fourth roundtable on Roadmap and practical set of recommendations to implement deforestation-free policies that are WTO compatible
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Nov2022Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund
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Nov2022Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Nov2022Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Nov20222022 PFP Forum on «Rising to the challenges of climate change and energy supplies»
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Nov2022Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Sep2022ECA General Members’ Meeting
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Sep2022ECA Board Meeting
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Sep2022European Cocoa Forum 2022 – Rome, Italy
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Jul2022Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Jun2022ECA/CAOBISCO/ICCO webinar on Food Contact Materials and Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons Contamination in Cocoa
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Jun2022Chocoa 2022
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Jun2022PFP Board Meeting
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Jun2022ECA/CAOBISCO/ICCO webinar on Food safety in the cocoa sector
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Jun2022ECA/International Trade Centre Third Roundtable on Implications of the new EU regulation on deforestation-free products
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May2022Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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May2022ECA Board Meeting
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May2022ECA General Members’ Meeting
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May2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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May2022ECA/International Trade Centre Second Roundtable on Deforestation-free Global Value Chains: Industry responses to deforestation
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Apr2022PFP Webinar on reduction of industrial sites’ greenhouse gas emissions
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Apr2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Apr2022Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund
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Apr2022Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Apr2022Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Mar2022ECA/International Trade Centre First Roundtable on Deforestation-free Global Value Chains
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Mar2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Mar2022Ad hoc meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Mar2022ECA/CAOBISCO/ICCO Food safety webinar with cocoa-producing countries – African and Asian countries
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Mar2022Meeting of the ECA Logistics & Warehousing Working Group
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Feb2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Jan2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Jan2022Meeting of the ECA Environment Working Group
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Jan2022Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Jan2022PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Dec2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Dec2021Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Nov2021ECA General Members’ Meeting
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Nov2021ECA Board Meeting
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Nov20212021 PFP Online Forum – Food security and resilience, challenge Green Deal
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Nov2021Meeting of the ECA Logistics & Warehousing Working Group
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Nov2021Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund
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Nov2021Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Nov2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Nov2021UN Climate Change Conference – Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Oct2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Oct2021Webinar of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund on Cadmium
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Oct2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Sep2021Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Sep2021Webinar of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund on Collaborative Framework for Cacao Evaluation with a focus on climate change: State of play and future outcomes
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Sep2021Meeting of the ECA Environment Working Group
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Sep2021ECA Board Meeting
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Jul2021Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Jun2021Joint ECA/CAOBISCO webinar with Nigeria on food safety challenges
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Jun2021PFP Board Meeting
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Jun2021Joint ECA/CAOBISCO webinar with Cameroon on food safety challenges
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Jun2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Jun2021ECA webinar on Cocoa plant productivity in West Africa under climate change
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Jun2021ECA General Members’ Meeting
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May2021Meeting of the ECA Logistics & Warehousing Working Group
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May2021Webinar of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund on opportunities for collaboration with the Cocoa4Future program & about the development of rapid detection solutions for CSSV
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May2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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May2021Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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May2021PFP workshop on Green Claims
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Apr2021Meeting of the ECA Trade Working Group
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Apr2021Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Research Fund
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Apr2021Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Apr2021Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Apr2021Joint ECA/CAOBISCO webinar on Food Safety matters/Latin America
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Apr2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Mar2021ECA education seminar: Sustainable Corporate Governance & EU decision making process
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Mar2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Feb2021Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Feb2021ECA Board Meeting
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Jan2021PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Dec2020PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Dec2020ECA/BASIC education seminar: Cocoa value chain calculator tool
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Nov2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Nov2020ECA General Members’ Meeting
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Nov2020ECA Board Meeting
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Nov2020Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO Research Fund
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Nov2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Nov2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Nov2020Meeting of the ECA Environment Working Group
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Nov2020ECA Meeting with Members of the European Parliament on Due Diligence
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Nov2020PFP General Assembly Meeting
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Oct2020ECA meeting with the Embassy of Indonesia in Belgium
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Oct2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Oct2020ECA/EU Commission DG DEVCO meeting on the European Fund for Sustainable Development
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Oct20202020 PFP Online Forum – Climate change: impacts on primary food sectors and ways towards carbon neutrality
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Oct2020Meeting of the ECA Trade Working Group
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Oct2020PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Sep2020ECA/CAOBISCO webinar on Food Safety Matters
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Sep2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Sep2020ECA Board Meeting
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Aug2020PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Jul2020Meeting between ECA Board Members and DG TRADE delegates on Sustainability
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Jul2020Meeting between ECA Board Members and DG JUST delegates on Sustainability
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Jul2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group (online)
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Jun2020Survey launch webinar “Comparative study on the distribution of value in European chocolate chains”
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Jun2020ECA/CAOBISCO Joint Quality & Productivity Working Group webinar on biorationals and innovative solutions in the area of crop protection
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Jun2020ECA/CAOBISCO webinar on Pesticide use in origin countries and challenges ensuing from changes in the EU regulatory landscape
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May2020ECA General Members’ Meeting (online)
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May2020ECA Board Meeting (online)
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May2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group (online)
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Apr2020Meeting of the ECA Environment Working Group (through conference call)
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Mar2020Meeting of the ECA MOH (Mineral Oils Hydrocarbons) Task Force/DRRR
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Mar2020Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Research Fund
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Mar2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Working group on Cocoa Quality and Productivity
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Mar2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Mar2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Task Force on Pesticides
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Mar2020Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Task Force on Acrylamide
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Mar2020Meeting of the ECA MOH (Mineral Oils Hydrocarbons) Task Force
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Mar2020Meeting of the ECA Sustainability Working Group
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Feb2020ECA Meeting with the Dominican Republic Delegation
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Feb2020ECA Board Meeting
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Feb2020Meeting of the ECA Task Force on Mineral Oils
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Jan2020Meeting of the ECA Task Force on Sustainability
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Jan2020PFP Secretary Generals’ Meeting
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Nov2019PFP General Assembly Meeting
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Nov2019ECA Board Meeting
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Nov2019Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Working Group on Cocoa Quality & Productivity
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Nov2019Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Research Fund
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Nov2019Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Sep2019ECA Board and General Members’ meetings
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Sep20192019 European Cocoa Forum Lisbon
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Jul2019PFP Secretary Generals’ meeting
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May2019PFP briefing session on plant breeding innovation
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May2019PFP Board Meeting
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May2019Global Commodity Risk Management Forum – ComRisk 2019
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May2019ECA Meeting with the Indonesian Ambassador
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Mar2019Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Research Fund
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Mar2019Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Working Group on Cocoa Quality & Productivity
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Mar2019Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Mar2019PFP Secretary Generals’ meeting
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Feb2019Brussels Chocolate Fair
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Feb2019Chocoa 2019
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Feb2019Meeting with delegation from the Dominican Republic
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Feb2019ECA Board Meeting
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Feb2019Meeting of the ECA Task Force on Deforestation
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Feb2019PFP Secretary Generals’ meeting
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Jan2019Meeting ECA/PFP Working Group Food
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Dec2018ECA Board and General Members’ meetings
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Nov2018ECA/PFP Forum on “Availability of raw materials in the context of current and future EU policies”
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Nov2018ECA meeting with Nederland
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Nov2018ECA meeting with Indcresa
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Oct2018ECA Meeting with Jan Schoemaker Cocoa
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Oct2018Meeting of the ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Research Fund
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Oct2018Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO/FCC Working Group on Cocoa Quality & Productivity
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Oct2018Meeting of the Joint ECA/CAOBISCO Working Group on Food Safety and Contaminants
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Oct2018Meeting of the ECA Task Force on Mineral Oils
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Oct2018PFP Secretary Generals’ meeting
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Sep2018Meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, in Brussels
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Sep2018ECA Board Meeting
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Aug2018Visit of Cargill’s Chocolate Factory in Mouscron
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Jun2018ECA-PFP internal workshop on the initiatives impacting the EU Food Supply Chain
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Jun2018PFP Secretary Generals meeting
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May2018ECA-ACP countries meeting on Cadmium
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May2018PFP Board meeting
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May2018ECA-European Coffee Federation meeting
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Apr2018Internal workshop on GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
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Mar2018ECA-CAOBISCO-FCC Working Groups
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Mar2018ECA-CAOBISCO Contaminants WG
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Mar20183rd meeting of the ECA Taskforce on Mineral oils
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Feb2018ECA Board meeting
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Jan20182nd meeting of the ECA Task Force on Mineral oils and the DRRR
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Jan2018PFP managers meeting
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Jan2018ECA-PFP Envi team meeting
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Dec2017ECA Board and General Members Meetings
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Nov2017PFP Board and General Assembly meeting
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Nov2017ECA/PFP Forum on assessing environmental footprint within the agri-food chain
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Sep2017PFP Secretary Generals meeting
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Sep2017PFP Secretary Generals meeting
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Jun2017ECA Task Force on Mineral oils
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May2017Workshop on the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus (CSSV) – Joint Research Fund
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Jan2017ECA meeting with representatives of the Embassy of Cameroon to the Kingdom of Belgium
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Jan2017Joint Residue Library Training
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Sep2016ECA Forum 2016 in Dubrovnik
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