Municipalities have generally relegated public catering service to a cost factor to be included in the budget. It is part of the much bigger paradox of food treated as a mere commodity, produced to be sold rather than eaten, and fundamentally ignoring its deep social, cultural, and environmental dimensions.
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Slow Food
NGO · Italy · EU Transparency Register 01936914624-97
4
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
3
legislative files
of 665 tracked
3
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1106 non-governmental organisations on this site, they rank #402 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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declared costs / yr (floor)
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EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2010
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Slow Food is member of the Food Policy Coalition and hosts its Secretariat.
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Non-governmental organisations
- Head office
- Bra (CN), Italy
- EU office
- Brussels
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Slow Food filed 4 positions between 25 Nov 2020 and 26 Jan 2026, across 3 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 3 times.
2020 · 1 filed2021 · 1 filed2022 · 1 filed2026 · 1 filed
What they argued
Slow Food Feedback on the EU Inception Impact Assessment: Proposal for a revision of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste – part on food waste reduction target. 29 October 2021 As a member of the EU Platform on Food Waste and Food Losses, Slow Food welcomes the European Commission’s initiative on the setting of EU-level targets for food waste reduction, and strongly recommends that a binding 50% reduction target on food…
Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)
While we welcome the recognition that "As sustainability concerns have become more accentuated in recent years, GI and TSG production is not or not systematically taking them into consideration" (p. 5), we regret that “inclusion by the GI producer group of sustainability criteria in the product specification” remain voluntary (art. 12).
The number of PDOs, PGIs and TSGs is constantly rising all around Europe, and that is a clear sign that producers trust this safeguard system of the European Union and acknowledge it as a real opportunity. Slow Food welcomes the Revision of the EU geographical indications (GIs) and would like to highlight some key elements that are relevant to Slow Food farmers and producers across Europe.
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