1/2017
Biodynamics in the World
The Newsletter of Demeter International, the International Biodynamic Association, and the
Agricultural Section at the Goetheanum
Dear members and friends of Biodynamic Agri-culture,
Thank you very much, Ian, for having informed as so well over the
last ten years.
With the change of the editor of this newsletter, new ideas will come
and we would like to take up your ideas and needs. Let us know
about it. One of these ideas is to have more reports from the
Biodynamic reality in the various countries.
Looking forward to a fruitful exchange.
Christoph Simpfendörfer
Standards and Standards Committee
Same procedure of amending the Standards as every year
At the Members’ Assembly in June, we again have the task of
updating the suite of DI standards. The procedure will be essentially
the same as in previous years - motions to amend them should
reach me by the end of January in order to have sufficient
consultation time. This is important, as we want well-considered
changes. If there are other processes which have to happen first
(which will lead to delays in sending in e.g. the standards
committee meeting schedule in your country), please let me know
what themes are under consideration and when motions will be
submitted.
Thank you
Ian Henderson
[email protected]
International Certification Office
Reduction of license fee of the ICO
The Board of Demeter-International has decided to lower again the
general license fee for ICO-partners. From the 1st of January 1,6%
(instead of 1,7%) of the Demeter/Biodynamic turn-over has to be
paid. Special regulations for sales in non-member-countries (1%) as
well as the sales of milk (1%) are ongoing. We are happy that such
a step is possible due to the general positive market development.
New certifications
Since July we have the following new certifications::
Kristina Martinėlienė/Lithuania: Arable farm with 437 ha and
cattle, in conversion to Demeter. BD Advisory by Reto Ingold.
Demeter-inspection by the lithuanian control body Ekoagros.
Contact: [email protected]
Jonas Dragūnas/Lithuania Arable farm with 239ha and cattle, in
conversion to Demeter. BD advisory by Reto Ingold. Demeterinspection by the lithuanian control body Ekoagros.
Contact: [email protected]
Cooperative Ilzenbergas/Lithuania with the farm units
Ilzenbergas, Ilzenbergo valdos und Auginimo formule: 384ha
arable land and cattle, in conversion to Demeter. BD advisory by
Reto Ingold. Demeter-inspection by the lithuanian control body
Ekoagros..
Contact: [email protected] , www.ilzenbergas.lt
Aušrinė Šėmienė/Lithania: 1,43ha mixed farm in conversion to
Demeter. BD advisory by Reto Ingold.
Demeter-inspection by the lithuanian control body Ekoagros.
Contact: [email protected]
Ökomag/Hungary: Trader seeds/corn , www.okomag.hu
Giannis Giannoutsos Barkas/Greece: 0,8ha herbs, in conversion
to Demeter. BD advisory by Maria Zalota.
Contact: [email protected] , www.botano.gr
Plantaciones del Norte/Dom Rep: 355ha Bananas, in conversion
to Demeter. BD advisory by René Piamonte and Klaus Merckens.
Demeter-inspection by IMOCert.
Contact: [email protected]
Productos Naturales de la Region Maya de Chiapas, SA de CV
(Pronat Maya)/Mexico: Processor/trader, belonging to the group
Peteres/Finca Irlanda (Coffee). Demeter-inspection by IMOCert.
Contact: [email protected] , www.grupopeters.com
Sanandi/Mexico: Processing and distribution of the Demeter farm
with herbs La Paz. Cosmetic, Herbal extracts, herbal teas.
Demeter-inspection by IMOCert.
Contact: [email protected] , www.vallelapaz.com
Kingberry/Argentina: 67ha berries, mainly blckberries and some
strawberries, in conversion to Demeter. BD advisory by Antonio
Heinze, Inspection by Demeter-Argentina.
Contact: [email protected] , www.kbargentina.com.ar
Vino y Tourismo/Chile: After division of the farm here: 152ha
vines. BD advisory by René Piamonte, Demeter-inspection by IMO
Chile.
Contact: [email protected] , www.matetic.com
We welcome all new partners heartly!
Cancellations:
Cooperativa CREO Frutihortícola Orgánica Ltda, Ivu
Farm/Argentina
Agrarstar/Poland
Üllöparti/Hungary (Activity taken over by Nagykunsági
Mezőgazdasági Ökoszövetkezet)
Sresta/India
Handelsbuero Nedelcev/Bulgary (Trader)
Hofer/Slovenia (Contract taken over by Demeter-Slowenia)
Cornelia Hauenschild
Accreditation council
Fourth partner evaluation round
of the Accreditation Council starting in 2017
2017 will be the start of our new partner evaluation round in Demeter
certification. Since 2002 the AC has been coordinating these special
rounds of qualified visits, which opt for verification of the basic
standards and procedures in Demeter inspection and certification.
They are part of the accreditation programme of Demeter
International for DI members and their certification bodies.
This year will be the 4th time that Demeter certifiers visit their
colleagues from other countries to conduct a peer-to-peer audit of
their inspection and certification system.
The partner visit of the Demeter certifiers in another country has
several important aspects. Firstly, Demeter certifiers have the
opportunity to gain a deeper and more personal insight into the
Demeter certification operations in another country. This helps to
develop our common understanding and working in the diverse field
of Demeter agriculture, processing and marketing. The visit of a
certification partner has generally proved to be a rewarding and
mutually beneficial visit. It offers insights into the difficulties but also
into creative solutions of actual certification problems as the visiting
partner is dealing with the same subject, is also involved in the same
daily routines. The AC gets the possibility to brief the visitors with
specific questions, which cannot be verified by paperwork. It also
offers the chance to implement improvement in the organisations by
mutual exchange and agreement and not always by top down
decisions.
During the last three rounds, the AC verified the implementation of
a lot of detailed structures and procedures that are necessary to
guarantee an adequate and fair certification system. The AC
collected a huge amount of information about the member certifiers
and can verify the use of manuals, contracts, forms and procedures
in addition to its own database (YUP). This direct contact of the AC
and certifiers remains very important but cannot replace the rich and
deep outcome of a direct visit on the spot. The AC is in favour for
this evaluation tool as part of the accreditation, which has been
developed out of an idea of the Demeter International member
assembly.
This year the AC proposed an additional element in this new partner
visit round. By reflection of the results of the last round, the AC found
that member countries face very different and specific challenges in
the implementation of their certification system. Therefore, we now
ask the countries before we decide about auditors to specify their
needs in development. Should there be better services for licensees,
should there be additional surveys of the market or does the
organisation need more administrational competence to take the
next step in the growing Demeter certification?
Instead of arranging a simple random visi,t the AC supports the
countries to address their needs also during this partner evaluation
visit. The auditors will be chosen, if possible with a suitable profile to
make sure that certifiers and country organisation can develop
themselves not only in the certification field itself but also with issues
connected to certification that seem important to them,
How does a member organisation find a suitable visit partner?
The AC will ask all countries by written return to analyse their actual
situation and to define a achievable task for their development. The
AC will support the countries this time to find an auditor that has
some experience in their specific field. The audit will be split up into
routine verification along with the briefing of the AC and an
exchange about this specific development issue. The evaluation
report will include both fields, implementation of standards and
development to get a more holistic view of the situation of the
certifier.
We hope very much that certifiers continue to engage with each
other with openness and trust to Demeter International as we
noticed during the last years and will take the chance to profit in this
next evaluation round even more as their personal needs can be
addressed too.
The AC is aware that there is a risk to quit the well-defined field of
“tics and boxes” where certifiers normally feel home by introducing
“organisational needs”, but we are sure that we need to deepen the
understanding of our cooperation, if we want to continue
successfully in Demeter certification. We believe this new way of
working will hopefully lead us all to sustainable solutions in
certification.
Dr. Reto Ingold
Agricultural Section at the Goetheanum
First Meeting of the Olive Growers
in Portugal on 19th and 20th October 2016
This meeting came from the realization about the isolation of the
olive growers. The advisors Maja Kolar and Reto Ingold started the
initiative in partnership with and with the support of the Agriculture
Section in order to organize a first meeting of the olive growers.
After two years of trying this meeting took place in October 2016 at
the farm Risca Grande of the Bernhard family in Serpa, Portugal.
20 participants from seven countries (Greece, Slovenia, Italy,
France, Spain, Portugal and Tunisia) made a success of the
meeting. After a tour of the big farm and the various participants
introducing themselves the following themes were worked upon:
questions of quality, the foundations of biodynamic agriculture,
understanding trees according to Rudolf Steiner etc. The specialist
group of olive growers has decided to continue the work they have
begun together. In 2017 a meeting is planned for the end of
September or beginning of October in Greece.
Further information is available from Reto Ingold
([email protected]).
International Conference for Biodynamic Fruit Growing in
November 2016
The international biodynamic fruit growers’ group has been active
for more than 20 years. In conversation with the Section the wish
came about to organize a larger international conference in order to
achieve a new step in the development of the group and also to
become more international. The fruit growers’ conference that took
place in the Schreinerei at the Goetheanum brought together
roughly 130 participants from a lot of European countries as well as
some from overseas. It was a mixed group of people – young and
old, beginners and experienced fruit growers – who met in the lovely
atmosphere of the Schreinerei and conversed very fruitfully in a
lively atmosphere. Contributions on various fruit cultures portrayed
the whole palette of biodynamic fruit growing: from the basis of
biodynamic cultivation through questions of marketing to the
technique of applying the preparations. The fruit growers’ group is
open for new members. Those interested may turn to Piet Korstanje.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Reports from Member Countries
DemeterLOCAL: Participatory certification in
Biodynamic® agriculture in the USA
From a chat with Jim Fullmer, co-director of Demeter USA we
learned that the Demeter association in the US is working with
groups of farmers in different parts of the country to establish a
participatory certification program. Their efforts in supporting
participatory certification, described in this article, adds a new
element to the complex and varied global PGS mosaic.
See the article in the annex.
was initiated by a core of real ecologists, and the peasant
philosophers became Biodynamicists. Bees are an essential
component.
In 2016 there were 7 Demeter enterprises, another 5 in conversion
with a contract with DI contract and still more working their way in.
There are bees on most farms and there was always the question in
the air: how do you keep bees Biodynamically? On the 19th-20th
November 2016 in Kaunatava, Telšiai district, at the Demeter
gardening family Gailis, a seminar entitled "Biodynamic
Beekeepers: Understanding Bees, their Nature and Propagation.
Bees in the rhythm of the planets" was held. It was organized by the
Lithuanian Association for Biodynamic Agriculture and Processing
"Biodinamika LT".
Reports
ProWine China 2016
During the last years, China evolved recently into the fifth-largest
business market for wine worldwide. In 2015, the value of
importation of German wines for the Chinese market reached 13.9
Mio. €.
In 2016, the wine fair “ProWine China” in Shanghai took place for
the fourth time. 600 exhibitors and 6000 visitors took part. It was a
great matter to the fair management to promote the issue of “organic
wines” so Demeter e.V. was invited to contribute to the event
program executing a “Masterclass”. Wine consultant Nina Weis
used her presence at the fair also to perceive the presence of
organic wines at the fair and to talk to Chinese wineries about
biodynamic winemaking.
The masterclass was sold out with over 60 visitors. It included a
tasting of German Demeter Wines and the transfer of knowledge.
The issues discussed were the basic principles of Biodynamic
farming and its influence on wine quality.
Nina Weis, Demeter Germany
III Mexican Biodynamic Meeting and Conference
“So The Earth may be healed”
Finding our task in biodynamic farming
Last 7th to 10th of December, the Mexican Biodynamic Movement
gathered in Coatepec, in the State of Veracruz, the host of the event
was the Demeter farm, Cafetal El Equimite. We met taking the goal
to explore deep within our self’s about what is our real task in
biodynamic farming, for the needs of Mexico, Latin America and the
World. Over 180 people gathered, to receive the information from
special guests, from the main Biodynamic initiatives in Mexico and
also some international experts from Germany, USA, and
representations from Central and South America.
Read more in the annex
Report on Biodynamic bee keeping in Lithuania 2016
When Lithuania gained independence from the Soviet Union in
1990, everything from the West was new for us – until then unheard
of and invisible. It became standard practice to study for a second
degree because the first degree was no longer up to date or even
useless. Following a graduate degree in German Studies, I took up
the Jurisprudence at the University and completed my MA degree.
This hunger for something new does not seem to want to pass in
Lithuania. The Biodynamic work was started here in 2012, initially
with seminars and advisory work coming from Germany and
Switzerland. As early as 1991, Dr. Reto Ingold paved the way, but
the fertile substrate was still not yet ready to bear fruit. The reforms
after the collapse of collective farms had to take effect, with the
distribution of the land taking place as a consequence. The first
organic farms were born in Lithuania after 2000. Today Lithuanian
EU organic agriculture is not strong; it depends on the subsidies,
Initially we wanted to invite only advanced beekeepers, but this was
later extended to be a general invitation, which was a complete
success. The Biodynamic master beekeeper Martin Dettli together
with Dr. Reto Ingold, both from Switzerland, spent two days with
bees and the cosmos. M. Dettli had brought the world of bees from
the formal side, the psychology of the bees, their mission in this
world, their spiritual nature and of course, the natural hive
construction with multiplication using the swarming instinct.
Dr. Reto Ingold had an agreement with the cosmos and for his
appearance, the sun shone in the middle of November. In the photo
you can see how the participants with closed eyes looking at the
sun’s transit from Scorpio into the Sagittarius. In the true sense of
the word, we, together with Dr Ingold, danced the movements of the
planets, the sun and the moon for the participants. Biodynamics and
other users appreciate more and more the Maria Thun Sowing
Calendar, which is being publishing for the fourth time in the
Lithuanian language.
The biennial seminar was attended by the Inspector of the
Lithuanian Biocontrol Center "Ekoagros", which also assesses
Biodynamic work and sends the inspection reports to DI for
evaluation. In Lithuania, there are only 17 certified organic
beekeepers, 10 years ago there were over 60, but compliance with
a 5 km distance around the hives is the very difficult. M.Dettli
explained that Biodynamic beekeeping in Switzerland, as in
Germany, recognizes the working methods of the beekeepers, and
the radius of bee activity is not counted. The Lithuanian Demeter
orchardist with apple trees covering 112 hectares and nearly 200
beehives cannot be recognized as organic because conventional
rape is cultivated inside a 5 km radius of the beehives.
To complete the seminar, certificates were given to the participants
and gifts were given to the teachers. Various honeys were tasted
during the time together. The youngest participant was one month
old and his mother led the participants in eurythmy.
Rasa Čirienė
President of the Lithuanian Association of Biodynamic Agriculture
and Processing "Biodinamika LT"
Biodynamic development in China
Thomas Lüthi visited the farm Wuhan Jun Jian Organic Agriculture
Development Co., Ltd on 21st-23rd November 2016. He is one of the
lecturers of the annual 10 days BD course near Beijing as well as a
4 days BD course near Nanjing.
There are now six Demeter certified farms in China.
The newest converted farm to Demeter is located outside the city of
Wuhan, which is on the same latitude as Shanghai. The owner of
the farm Mr. Chen Jian builds up the 20 ha farm step by step. The
land is rented from the village authorities. Major part of the land was
flooded in summer 2016 due to heavy rainfall and a high water level
in the nearby river. .
The plan is to build up the fertility of the soil during several years
with legumes, a gentle crop rotation and of course the biodynamic
preparations. An eight-meter-wide hedge is planted towards a
neighbour farm.
The much diversified farm has cows, pigs, horse, chickens, geese’s,
five fishponds where the fishes are fed with fodder from the own
farm, vegetables, rice and an orchard. Every week boxes with
vegetables are sold to 30 members to the city Wuhan with 12 million
inhabitants. For the future, there is the wish to establish as well a
Waldorf school on the farm.
20 – 30 different vegetable seeds are produced on the farm for own
use. Cultivation of seeds is supposed to increase in the future. Mr.
Chen Jian wants to grow slowly with the farm and does a very prober
work.
Thomas Lüthi
Colombia: Bio instead of bombs
Biodynamic impulses for a torn country
For over fifty years Colombia has been in civil war. The extremely
unequal distribution of land is a major cause of the conflict.
Government and paramilitary on the one hand, the FARC guerrillas
on the other have fought bitterly. Paramilitary and FARC are
financed with kidnapping/ ransom money and drug trafficking. More
than 200,000 deaths have been recorded, Colombia is the country
with the highest number of internally displaced persons worldwide.
The southeast is covered with dense virgin forest which extends to
the Amazon. The north-east is wide grass steppes. In the west, the
Andes are divided into three mighty mountain ranges. From the
mangrove forests and deserts on the coast, through fertile valleys,
the slopes of the coffee plantations to the pastures of the high
plateaus, all climatic zones are found in Colombia. There is scarcely
any agricultural product, scarcely a fruit that would not grow in
Colombia. They taste as their names sound - like a promise from
paradise: Chirimoya, Guanabana, Lulo, Pitaya, Guayaba,
Cañadonga, Ciruela, Mamoncillos.
But opposites also evident. There is a very high awareness of the
value of unrivalled biodiversity and the natural treasures of the
country. Everywhere there are posters which draw attention to the
biological resources and their worthiness of protection. And at the
same time, Colombia is the country with the highest consumption of
pesticides per hectare. There are often problems with water pollution
or with scarcity because it is used for example predominantly for the
giant sugar cane plantations making it a scarce resource for the
general population.
There is much too little Biodynamically cultivated area in Germany.
But compared to Colombia, with our 1,500 farmers, 350 processors
and large organic food stores we live in paradise. And yet, there are
also many examples of committed projects with ecological
breakthroughs in Colombia, often innovative and exemplary, even
by our standards.
We visit Olympio and his daughter. On the wall are three aerial
photos of the farm, each taken about 10 years apart. In the first
picture we see pure grazing land, traversed by deep erosion
channels, 4 beef cattle per ha were kept on the 40 ha farm. The
fodder yields were decreasing. Olympio had to destock the animals
and began to plant forest. This completely unusual measure can be
seen in the second photo. Today there are trees in all the pastures,
they let enough light through from the strong tropical sun but provide
shade at the same time. The wood is an important source of income.
A moist microclimate is created. The system and the fodder yields
stabilized so that today 4 cattle can once again be kept per hectare.
The steep slopes are completely reforested, with coffee now planted
under the trees. Plant protection products are not used; the only
fertilizers used are cow dung together with wood charcoal derived
from tree prunings. Only the Biodynamic preparations were missing
for it to be a model Biodynamic operation.
We climb higher and higher on the gravel road into the mountains
between Cali and the Pacific. We are with Ingo with whom I was at
school in Cali. After school, he completed his agricultural training
and worked for many years as a Biodynamic farmer in Germany.
After 26 years there he returned to Colombia (just four years ago) to
manage an organic sugar cane plantation and set up an organic
subscription box service. We are on the way to the family farm. A
barrier arm indicates that we are entering a military zone. Up there,
the guerrillas had entrenched themselves, hiding over one hundred
hostages here in one of the most spectacular abductions and driving
Ingo's brother from the farm. Nature quickly reclaimed the carefully
terraced land, the house is half decayed. I see the incredible beauty
of this piece of land - cultivated land in the midst of a breath taking
mountain forest. Now the farm, along with its neighbour - a total of
40 ha - are to be put into operation again and managed
Biodynamically by young people. Vegetables and milk products for
the subscription boxes are to be produced. The Biodynamicists meet
regularly and study Steiner's agricultural course. In December 2016,
a conference of all Biodynamic initiatives and those interested took
place in Medellin. Also attending was a farmer and Chairman of the
Supervisory Board for Demeter Germany - Thomas Schmid.
In Bogota, we meet Alexander von Loebell, who runs a health food
store there. Five "bio plaza" stores already operate here. The range
is reminiscent of the early days of the health food stores in Germany
- not everything is certified organic, many products among them
coming from loving and original projects. We visit Alexander's father
Helmut, a polemical man who has made money with industrial
imports. He has set up an unprecedented Waldorf project in one of
the city's social centres. In the midst of rival gangs in a poor district,
the building is home to children who are often left alone all day by
their working parents to learn and play in the protected environment.
At the gates of the town, the family has a Biodynamic farm that we
visit. The eight hectare garden with vegetables, dairy cows and
chickens is run by a very young Colombian with impressive
commitment, who has just finished her ecology studies in Argentina.
The farm is to become a model and training enterprise. Alexander
has an idea: he wants to reintegrate the guerrillas into society; they
should get this land this land. He wants them to manage it
organically, preferably Biodynamically. He’ll buy the products and
market them in his shops. "Bio instead of bombs" he calls his project.
And so the young Biodynamic impulse will at the same time
contribute to the new beginning of the country.
founding of Demeter-International and the harmonisation of
standards at an international level
Alexander Gerber
Miscellaneous
Demeter and the Biodynamic Movement mourn a pioneer
After a fulfilling life involved with the German and international
organic agricultural movement in various responsible positions, the
organic pioneer Jan Freiherr von Ledebur died on 23 December
2016 at the age of 85. The German Demeter board spokesperson
Alexander Gerber honoured the co-founder and long-standing
chairperson of the German working group for organic farming
(AGÖL) as an important driving force for sustainable agriculture.
"Jan von Ledebur has contributed significantly to the success of
organic farming thanks to his ability to bring together agricultural
stakeholders and from discussions with them to initiate important
developments"
Following an agricultural apprenticeship, Jan Freiherr von Ledebur
managed the parental estate Crollage in Westphalia, which he
converted to Biodynamic management.
In doing so, he provided important pioneering insights in the
Demeter fruit industry. Subsequently, he studied agricultural
sciences in Göttingen and Berlin. After his studies, he became the
Managing Director of the Research Circle for Biodynamic Agriculture
in Darmstadt in 1983. He also worked internationally and provided
important impulses on all continents during his time on the board of
the global umbrella organisation for organics, IFOAM. In 1988, he
was not only one of the founders of the Organic Farming WorkGroup (AGÖL), but was its chairperson until 2000 and hence an
influential leader of this first umbrella organisation of German
organic farming associations. Dr. Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein,
chairman of the successor federation BÖLW, founded in 2002,
honoured the role of the Jan von Ledebur in the design of the
European organic legislation: "Under the chairmanship of Freiherr
von Ledebur, AGÖL contributed significantly to the EU organic
regulation and thus to the first legal framework defining organic
farming and organic food processing throughout the EU.”
His merits were honoured with the Professor Niklas Medal in Silver,
the first representative of organic farming to gain this recognition. It
is the highest award of the German Federal Ministry of Economic
Affairs, which emphasised above all Ledebur’s integrating ability.
The magazine ‘Capital’ and the WWF awarded Ledebur the EcoManager of the Year in 1999.
In the 1990s, Jan von Ledebur was a member of the International
Certification Office where he took on the Demeter inspections in
Hungary among other things, and gave important impulses for the
Biodynamic work in the region.
He was also very active between 1990 and 1996 during the
international Demeter meetings in Järna / Sweden, which led to the
With the passing of Jan Freiherr von Ledebur, Demeter and the
entire organic movement lose a significant representative who has
devoted his life to Biodynamic agriculture as an example of practical
anthroposophy, to the collaboration of organic farming associations
and to political lobbying. "His role model is an incentive for us to
work for a future-oriented agriculture and nutrition!" emphasises
Demeter's CEO, Alexander Gerber, and BÖLW Chairman of the
Board, Felix Prinz, zu Löwenstein.
Dates/events/courses
ProWein 2017: The Wine World meets up in Düsseldorf
from 19th to 21st March 2017
In 2017, Demeter e.V. will organize a joint stand at ProWein, the
international trade fair for wine and spirits, in Düsseldorf again. Due
to the great demand on behalf of the international wineries the
amount of co-exhibitors will grow again substantially by about 25%.
Therefore also the diversity of the presented products will be greater
than last time.
28 international wineries from all over the world are looking forward
to welcome the trade visitors and to taste their wines together with
them. Guest country France will be in the focus of the joint stand in
2017, presenting 14 co-exhibitors. Wine tasting will also be possible
in the common Tasting Area, waiting for the visitors with numerous
exciting wine discoveries. Romana Echensperger, internationally
well-received sommelière and master of wine, will guide the visitors
through the event program, which completes the fair presentation
for the audience.
Nina Weis, Demeter Germany
Second module of Biodynamic Formation in Argentina
Section for Agriculture
Ueli Hurter, Jean-Michel Florin, Thomas Lüthi
ph: +41 61706 4212 [email protected], skype: ueli.hurter, skype: jeanmichelflorin,
skype: Thomas.luthi1
International Biodynamic Association IBDA
Ueli Hurter, Therese Jung
ph: +41 61706 4212 [email protected] skype: ueli.hurter
Demeter-International
General Secretary & newsletter
Christoph Simpfendörfer
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Certification
Cornelia Hauenschild
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New Projects
Ute Bucholski
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Accreditation Council
Reto Ingold
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Raw Materials Co-ordinator
Aurelie Truffat
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Standards
Ian Henderson
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International Communication
Anette Jorry
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Office Brussels
Dr. Andreas Biesantz
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Published by Demeter-International e.V. Editor Christoph Simpfendörfer (German version), Ian Henderson (English translation)