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data-ecl-breadcrumb-item="static" aria-current="page"><span>Advisory Group on Sustainability of Food Systems (AGSFS)</span></li></ol></nav><div class="ecl-page-header__info"><h1 class="ecl-page-header__title"><span>Advisory Group on Sustainability of Food Systems (AGSFS)</span></h1></div><div class="ecl-page-header__description-container"><p class="ecl-page-header__description">Register of Commission Expert Groups - (<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3832">E03832</a>) </p></div></div></div> </div> <main class="ecl-u-pb-xl" id="main-content" data-inpage-navigation-source-area="h2.ecl-u-type-heading-2, div.ecl-featured-item__heading"> <div class="ecl-container"> <div class="ecl-row"> <div class="ecl-col-s-12 ewcms-top-sidebar"> <div> <div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ecl-row"> <div class="ecl-col-s-12"> <div id="block-ewcms-theme-main-page-content" 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replaced the "Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health" since 15 July 2022.</p><p>The AGSFS provides the European Commission with stakeholders' views on food systems’ sustainability, and related areas:</p><ul><li>food and feed safety</li><li>food and feed labelling and presentation</li><li>public health and human nutrition in relation to food legislation</li><li>animal health and welfare</li><li>food/feed production and international relations</li><li>new technologies- including biotechnology</li><li>crop protection, plant protection products and residues thereof</li><li>conditions for the marketing of seed and propagation material</li></ul><p>Food systems’ sustainability is to be understood as including all aspects relating to health/nutrition/marketing, environmental/climate, agriculture/ agronomy/fisheries/aquaculture, and social science areas as well as in digital transformation, and finance areas pertaining to food systems;</p><ul><li><a 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EU-level stakeholder organisations representing farmers, cooperatives, the food industry, retailers, consumers, professionals and civil society and 14 public entities.</p> <p>The membership was established via a Call for applications, which was launched on 12 January 2022 for a period of 4 weeks, in compliance with horizontal rules for Commission Expert groups.</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="/document/download/9dc123ee-d73f-48f3-8384-ad2f31c1ca27_en?filename=adv-grp_agsfs_members.pdf&prefLang=pt">Members</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="/document/download/36aa1784-f932-4969-9c6e-04234dcd90fd_en?filename=adv-grp_agsfs_members-entities.pdf&prefLang=pt">Public entities</a></p> </li> </ul></div> </div> <div class="ecl-u-mb-2xl"> <a id="paragraph_1237"></a> <h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2">Meetings</h2> <div class="ecl"><p>All relevant documents such as agendas, minutes, and working documents related to the activities of the Advisory Group will be made publicly available:</p> <ul> <li><a 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