Choices International Foundation

Acronym: CIF

General Information

Identification Code: 564335331630-41

Website: https://www.choicesprogramme.org/

Entity Form: Foundation

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 5/28/2018

Last Update: 2/13/2024

Mission & Interests

Goals: The Choices mission is to help shaping national food systems to make the healthy choice the easy choice for consumers. The food system is a complex and complicated thing. Changing it demands a variety of actions, honest collaboration and a long term commitment. Choices wants to improve daily diets by guiding consumers to find healthier products, guiding industry to improve their products and collaborating with food & health authorities to shape effective nutrition policies.

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Public health

Levels of Interest:

global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: 1. Choices International represents the national Choices program in Czech Republic. 2. Choices International supports the national healthy food logo program in Croatia and provides information for national debates on front-of-pack labelling 3. Choices International drives the European Positive Logo Movement that brings together the 10 European countries with a positive logo 4. Choices International supports the Choices European Scientific Committee that stimulates and monitors European studies on the impact of front-of-pack labelling e.g. CLYMBOL 5. Choices International shares knowledge with DG Santé and JRC upon request

Communication Activities: 1. European Logo Round Tables 2012 (Brussels), 2014 (Copenhagen), 2016 (Amsterdam), 2018 (Copenhagen), 2021 (Online) 2. Video clip on European positive logo movement 3. Choices stakeholder events in 2014, 2015 4. Participation via Schuttelaar & Partners in FLABEL and CLYMBOL research projects 5. Session at the High Level Conference on Food product improvement, Febr 2016 in Amsterdam 6. Participation in stakeholder consultation on claims regulation and FOP labelling

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Molenweg 18

Post Code: 7084 AV

City: Breedenbroek

Country: NETHERLANDS

Phone:

Indic Phone: 31

Phone Number: 627011363

EU Office

Address: Molenweg 18

Post Code: 7084 AV

City: Breedenbroek

Country: NETHERLANDS

Phone:

Indic Phone: 31

Phone Number: 627011363

Financial Data

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Other Source Info: We received a grant from IDRC for a project in Nigeria. We received criteria user fees from 4 companies (Ahold Delhaize, FrieslandCampina, MSCI and Ikea), which are using the Choices criteria as external benchmark for commercial purposes.

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Currency: €
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0: 104
1: 64
2: 61
3: 142
4: 158
5: 212
6: 182
7: 32
8: 86
9: 90
10: 78
11: 130

Total Budget: 124267

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Complementary Information: Whilst we are in the process of seeking public funding for our activities, we had an operating result of 26232 in the financial year 2023.