The Geen Deal of the EU Commission touches far more areas than has been publicly discussed so far. What are the consequences, for example, for the domestic brewing industry and the related agriculture, industry, and trade? This will be addressed for the first time at a conference now being established on the initiative of the University of Bayreuth and organised by Museen im Kulmbacher Mönchshof e. V.: the first Kulmbacher Bierrechtstag. "The brewing sector is essential for Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and Europe. To make it sustainable and future-proof in its diversity, we need an intelligent legal framework. This is what we are seeking to work on at the 1st Kulmbacher Bierrechtstag," says Prof. Dr. Kai Purnhagen, Chair of Food Law and Director of the Research Centre for German and European Food Law (FLMR) at the University of Bayreuth.
This conference is the first of its kind to deal specifically with legal and political issues in the brewing sector, focusing on the entire value chain: Cultivation, processing, brewing, distribution, trade, and consumption all play an equal role at the conference. In Kulmbach, stakeholders from government and administration will have the opportunity to publicise current initiatives and discuss them with practitioners. The latter, in turn, will have the chance to network with science and thus get innovations off the ground.
"We are very pleased that we will be holding the 1st Kulmbacher Bierrechtstag together with the new Campus in Kulmbach of the University of Bayreuth with us at the Bavarian Brewery Museum. On the one hand, we see ourselves committed to the tradition of brewing and beer culture, but on the other hand we are also concerned with its continuation, for without tradition there can be no innovation," emphasises Dr Helga Metzel, Managing Director of Museen im Kulmbacher Mönchshof e. V., whose purpose is the preservation and cultivation of food culture.
