Vicente RodrÃguez Fuentes
President
European Food Law Association, Lawyer at Legalagrifood Abogados
Spain
Biography
Vicente RodrÃguez Fuentes is a Spanish lawyer specialized in food Law and has a wide experience in regulatory affaires and in litigation in the field of food law, where he has advised numerous European and international companies and organisations. He was educated at the Universities of Seville, Spain, (law degree) and Liege, Belgium, (Masters Degree in European Law avec distinction) and served internship at Directorate General of Internal Market and Industrial Affaires of the European Commission
Research Interest
He is the author of numerous articles on Food Law published in Law reviews in Spain, Italy and Germany/EU. He has edited the book From agricultural to food law, the new scenario (Wageningen Academics Publ. 2014), directed the book El Derecho Agroalimentario (Agrifood Law, Edit. Bosch 2003) and participated in the book UE. Sociologia y Derecho Alimentario (UE Sociology and Food Law, Thomson Reuters 2013). He has written the legal section of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture/Spanish Food and Beverage Federation (FIAB) Guidelines on the Food Alert System. He participates regularly in international seminars and conferences on food law and is an invited professor at the University of the Balearic Islands in a Master Degree on nutrition. He is the president of the European Food Law Association.