Please join K&L Gates and Stoel Rives LLP at the Inaugural EU Food and Consumer Law Workshop on September 11, 2014 from 1 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at Thanksgiving Point Gardens in Lehi, Utah.
From K&L Gates LLP, Sebastián Romero Melchor, Mélanie Bruneau, Izabela Tànska and Lara Skoblikov will discuss the following topics:
- How the Food Information for Consumers Regulation changes foodstuffs labelling
- New rules for mandatory particulars
- Impact of COOL labelling
- What to include in case of distance selling
- Are there specific rules for food supplements
- Consumer protection rules: How to comply when doing direct selling and online sales in Europe?
- Information to be communicated to consumers
- Having terms and conditions of sale: a need and an obligation
- The new consumer withdrawal right
- The approval button to confirm the online sale
- Archiving IT records or how to submit e-sign evidence
- Practical data protection issues : the transfer of personal data outside of the EU
- Update on the use of botanicals in functional foods
- State of play
- Impact of BELFRIT: how to include your plant in the approved lists
- Harmonization or mutual recognition?
- Demarcation issues: practical examples
- Health claims - State of Play
- Claims that can be used at present - lists, register, database
- Case study - health claims’ review (label from the market)
- Special focus: botanical claims
- Overview of national approach to enforcing health claims rules
- Use of the term ‘natural’ on food labels and advertising
- The prohibition to mislead consumers
- Guidelines for using ‘natural’
- Understanding ‘consuming understanding’
- Best practices and safe harbors
- The marketing approach: Building a compliant MLM network in Europe
- Insight into recent case law regarding MLM and direct selling
- The importance to have (e-signed) contracts and T&C in place with business partners
- Internet guidelines for resellers: a useful tool
- A specific status for direct sellers: the example of France
- The SME Status in Europe : the importance to know the rule and its implementation
- Use of trademarks and fancy names as health claims
- Demystifying Article 1(3)
- The exact scope of the derogation provided in Article 28(2)
- Conditions of use and safe harbors
- Practical examples and case studies
- How to market dietary supplements in several EU countries: does Mutual Recognition really work?
- Preconditions to use mutual recognition and the concept of “legally marketed”
- Applying mutual recognition to composition: from vitamins and minerals to medicinal plants
- Mutual recognition and labelling: health claims, mandatory warnings and national provisions
- Lessons from the experience
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Thanksgiving Point Gardens
3900 North Thanksgiving Way
Lehi, UT 84043