Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 26 Jun 2024
- Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
III Dialogue on sustainable cocoa
The online workshop "Due diligence for legal cocoa under the EUDR" will take place on 26 June.
Component 2 of AL-INVEST Verdeimplemented by FIIAPP and IILA, in collaboration with the programme SAFE -implemented by the German cooperation agency, GIZ, and with the technical support of the European Forest Institute (EFI)will hold the III Dialogue on sustainable cocoa, which will be entitled ".Due diligence for legal cocoa in the framework of EUDR", added.
This workshop is part of a cycle of three virtual dialogues on the cocoa chain to address different EUDR requirements: free deforestation, traceability and legality.
The event will be virtual and will take place at the following venue timetable:
- 9:00 - 11:30 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- 11:00 - 13:30 Brazil
- 14:00 - 16:30 Ivory Coast
- 16:00 - 18:30 Brussels
Hourly Schedule
Programme
- 9:00 - 9:05
- WELCOME
- Emilio Calvo. Director of Component 2 of the AL-INVEST Verde programme (FIIAPP).
- 9:05 - 9:15
- DIRECTIVE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE
- Martin Karim. Legal and Policy Officer in the Company Law Unit, European Commission, DG JUST
- 9:15 - 9:20
- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- Hélène Beaghe. Policy Officer in charge of employment in supply chains, European Commission, DG INTPA
- 9:20 - 9:35
- LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF EUDR AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DUE DILIGENCE
- Alice Bisiaux. Legal expert at the European Forest Institute (EFI)
- 9:35 - 9:55
- METHODOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF THE COCOA LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN GHANA
- Clement Akapame. Partner at Taylor & Crabbe
- 9:55 - 10:15
- ADVANCES IN PUBLIC POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA
- Felipe Nunes - Brazil. Director of the Territorial Intelligence Centre (CIT) and researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Nelson Yepez - Ecuador. Undersecretary of Commercialisation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG). Fernando Javier Martinez Ruiz - Peru. Director of the Directorate of Economic Studies of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI).
- 10:15 - 10:45
- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- Moderator: Claudio Marconi. Consultant of AL-INVEST Verde
- 10:45 - 10:50
- CLOSING
- Ute Sontag. Coordinator of the Sustainable Agriculture for Forest Ecosystems Project of the SAFE Programme of GIZ (Ecuador). Emilio Calvo. Director of Component 2 of the AL-INVEST Verde programme (FIIAPP).