{"id":21331,"date":"2014-07-07T03:21:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=21331"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T07:58:12","slug":"invitation-workshop-label-bio-based-products-5-september-2014-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/invitation-workshop-label-bio-based-products-5-september-2014-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation: Workshop on label for bio-based products, 5 September 2014, Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Labelling for bio-based products is currently widely debated &#8211; but how can it be implemented to meet the needs of consumers and producers and to increase market uptake of bio-based products?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We invite you to take part in our one-day workshop that will discuss the requirements that a label would need to fulfil in order to adequately represent bio-based products. More specifically it will look into the possibilities to broaden the EU Ecolabel (Flower) to include bio-based products.<\/p>\n<p>We invite stakeholders from companies producing bio-based materials as well as labelling and certification bodies to exchange ideas and requirements to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we need a European Ecolabel for bio-based products?<\/li>\n<li>What criteria should be covered by an Ecolabel for bio-based products?<\/li>\n<li>What are factors that would make a bio-based label desirable for industry as well as end consumers?<\/li>\n<li>Could the EU Ecolabel (Flower) be expanded to cover bio-based products?<\/li>\n<li>What would be the barriers and the opportunities for including bio-based criteria in the EU Ecolabel?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This workshop is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-bio.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open-Bio project<\/a>, funded by the European Commission&#8217;s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 05.09.2014<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 10:30 &#8211; 17:00<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Kooperationsstelle EU der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (KoWi), Rue du Tr\u00f4ne 98, 1050 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n<p>Participation is free of charge, and the maximum contingent is 40 persons.<\/p>\n<p>Registration and information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/open-bio-workshop\" target=\"_blank\">www.bio-based.eu\/open-bio-workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns!<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to fruitful discussions,<\/p>\n<p>Lara Dammer &#8211; for the Open-Bio Labelling team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labelling for bio-based products is currently widely debated &#8211; but how can it be implemented to meet the needs of consumers and producers and to increase market uptake of bio-based products? We invite you to take part in our one-day workshop that will discuss the requirements that a label would need to fulfil in order [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2317,4],"class_list":["post-21331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-commission","supplier-nova-institut-gmbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=21331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}