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CENTRE DE RECERCA EN ECONOMIA I DESENVOLUPAMENT AGROALIMENTARI UPC-IRTA

Acronym: CREDA

General Information

Identification Code: 181428234472-95
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Entity Form: Fundación (entidad sin fines lucrativos)
Registration Category: Think tanks and research institutions
Registration Date: 5/2/2019
Last Update: 1/15/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: CREDA-UPC-IRTA emerges from the need to help structuring a public Catalan research and development system in the agro-food sector, promoted by two institutions: the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) - Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology -, which have traditionally maintained a close cooperation in developing research and teaching in different fields. It is still a very young center but also very dynamic and with the purpose to turn, with its team's effort and dynamism, into a reference center for the agro-food economy and rural development in Catalonia, in Spain and internationally. CREDA was born with the will to cooperate and collaborate in the public sector as well as in the private one, in order to contribute to the development and improvement of agriculture and livestock competitiveness, and to the modernisation of their structures, a (...)
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Consumers
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • International co-operation and development
  • Maritime affairs and fisheries
  • Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • european
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: COM(2018) 173 final - 2018/0082(COD) Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain ECFWF European Consumer Food Waste Forum - JRC D1 and D3. The Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), is setting up a multi-disciplinary forum to address consumer food waste. Researchers and practitioners will work together to find solutions and develop tools to help reduce consumer food waste EU Market Wine Observatory. The aim of EU wine market observatory is to provide the EU wine sector with greater transparency through the timely dissemination of market data and short-term analysis. The wine market observatory will regularly update a wide range of data regarding prices, production and trade of this product. Other elements such as market analysis, short-term results reports or medium-term outlook will also be provided to the wine sector. Along these lines, as part of the observatory, a board of experts will meet periodically to discuss the current situation of the wine market.
Communication Activities: CREDA is a cientific research center where all researchers, PhD students and other employees conduct research and consultancy projects independently and without any kind of political interests. With respect to the Directive on unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, we follow-up the developments in the EU legislation and decision-making process to write the annual report for the Agencia de Información y Control Alimentarios (AICA) (the Spanish authority in charge of the control on unfair trading practices), in which we compare its action with the action taken in the other EU countries.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Edifici ESABCARRER ESTEVE TERRADAS, 8
Post Code: 08860
City: CASTELLDEFELS
Country: SPAIN
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EU Office

Address: Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Edifici ESABCARRER ESTEVE TERRADAS, 8
Post Code: 08860
City: CASTELLDEFELS
Country: SPAIN
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 1
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.10000000149011612

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: We don't have any associated members, but CREDA was founded as a foundation by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA).
Organisation Members: We don't have any associated members, but CREDA was founded as a foundation by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Catalonia Polytechnic University -, and the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA).