19th General Meeting of the EIHA
31 May 2016, start time: 7 pm; Venue: Rheinforum, Kölnerstr. 42 Wesseling, Germany
Agenda:
- Assessment of the Votes
- Status report on EIHA and Hemp
- Trend reports from Europe and the member state
- Updated hemp cultivation area 2015
- Update of fibre price data
3a. EIHA activities in 2015/2016
- Status of policy in Brussels (Michael Carus, John Hobson, Sylvestre Bertucelli)
- EIHA in the “Bio-based Expert Group”, SCAR, DG Enterprise – high level committee to steer the Bio-based Economy, and Drink Europe (Michael Carus, Sylvestre Bertucelli, Daniel Kruse)
- THC limits for food, meeting with DG Health (European Commission)
- Results of the Hemp Market Survey (Michael Carus, Luis Sarmento)
- ISCC PLUS: “Sustainability certification for Hemp Fibres and other raw materials”. Certification of Hanf Farm (DE) and HempFlax (NL) supported by EIHA: Current status report (Mark Reinders and Rafael Dulon)
- LCA of hemp fibre insulation material – status MultiHemp project (Martha Barth)
- E-Mail interest groups for regular members (Michael Carus)
3b. Trade fairs and conferences in 2016
- Booth at the 9th International Conference on Bio-based Materials, April 2016
- 13th Int. Conference of the EIHA 2016
- Booth at the Composites Europe 2016 (Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Financial report of the EIHA (Michael Carus)
- Exoneration of the Board of Directors
- Running and new activities (to discuss)
- Update of the EIHA statute on new regular members
- Update EIHA leaflet and Hemp poster
- Discussions on focus in 2016/17:
- THC limits for food – what to do, next steps
- CBD regulations – pharmaceutical, food supplement, novel food – what to do, next steps
- Further research on THC guidance values