The Technical Secretariat (TS) of FreshProducePEFCR, which is developing technical rules for calculating the environmental footprint of fruits and vegetables as part of the Freshfel Environmental Footprint Initiative, is organizing an open webinar to mark the launch of the project’s second public consultation.

The first public consultation was open for 4 weeks in April 2024 and generated great interest among stakeholders, with 129 comments in total (between general, editorial and technical comments) from 90 unique responses. The webinar open from 26 March to promote the consultation also gathered over 130 registered participants. The increased visibility of the project to encourage submission of responses ensured a variety of comments from the sector. The TS has carefully reviewed the input received and assessed how the draft FreshProducePEFCR can be improved from it, addressing the submissions of each respondent.

After processing the feedback from the first public consultation, as well as having completed 2 case studies to test the implementation of the FreshProduce PEFCR in practice, the TS once again invites the sector to provide feedback on the updated technical rules for calculating the environmental footprint of fruit and vegetables.

The developers of the PEFCR will open the second public consultation on 13 January 2025 for 4 weeks. With this public consultation, we ensure that different perspectives are taken into account in the development process. We particularly encourage sector experts and LCA experts with a strong experience in the fruit and vegetable sector to submit their comments. To invite the submission of responses to the consultation, they are organizing an open webinar on the same day.

Webinar: 13 January 2025 | 15:00-16:00 (CET) | FreshProducePEFCR – Calculating the environmental footprint of fresh fruit and vegetables

Please register for this webinar at https://form.jotform.com/243312333740345. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent before the event.

Agenda

1. Why develop PEFCR for fresh fruit and vegetables? (Gil Kaufman, Freshfel Europe)

2. How are we developing PEFCR? (Nikki Hulzebos, Dutch Fresh Produce Centre)

3. How has FreshProduce's PEFCR changed since the first public consultation? (Jeroen Weststrate, Wageningen Research)

4. The second public consultation – what to expect and what is expected? (Jeroen Weststrate, Wageningen Research)

5. Q&A session with TS representatives.

The language of the webinar is English.