38° Congresso UNITAB EUROPA – Napoli
38° Congresso UNITAB EUROPA
Royal Continental Hotel - Napoli 23/24 settembre 2025
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ONT Italia è lieta e orgogliosa di avere l’opportunità di organizzare i lavori del 38° Congresso di UNITAB Europa in Italia, previsto per settembre 2025.
Come mondo produttivo, negli ultimi anni abbiamo affrontato insieme numerose sfide, che hanno messo a dura prova la nostra capacità di resilienza. Sempre insieme, però, siamo riusciti a difendere e tutelare gli interessi della produzione di tabacco greggio, e a rilanciare l’attenzione verso una coltura strategica da un punto di vista economico e sociale per diverse aree rurali europee.
Gli ospiti e le relazioni che animeranno i lavori del 38° Congresso di UNITAB Europa affronteranno i temi più importanti per il futuro della filiera tabacchicola in Europa, e ci permetteranno di costruire insieme traiettorie comuni per affrontare negli anni a venire le sfide regolatorie e di mercato che potranno avere un impatto sul nostro settore, come nel caso della PAC, della TED e della TPD e gli impegni internazionali previsti in occasione della COP 11 a Ginevra.
La possibilità di ospitare, nella splendida cornice del golfo di Napoli, capoluogo di una storica regione tabacchicola italiana, i delegati provenienti da tutti i Paesi Europei produttori di tabacco, rappresenta un onore e ci stimola, come ONT Italia, a lavorare con grande senso di responsabilità, per assicurare un esito ottimale dell’evento.
In attesa di potervi accogliere di persona a Napoli, ONT Italia vi ringrazia per la sentita partecipazione che sicuramente caratterizzerà il 38° Congresso di UNITAB Europa in Italia.
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Programma del 38° Congresso UNITAB EUROPA
Royal Continental Hotel - Napoli 23/24 settembre 2025
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MONDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2025
17:30-20:00 – Registration of attendees – Conference Room, Ground Floor
19:30-21:30 – Welcome Cocktail – Elements Bar, Ground Floor
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TUESDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2025
08:00 – Registration of attendees – Conference Room, Ground Floor
.Kick-off and Introduction
09:00 – Welcome and Opening remarks – Gennarino Masiello, ONT Italia
09:15 – Greeting speech – Massimo Ricci, UNITAB ITALIA
09:30 – Institutional greetings National and local Institutions – (Patrizio La Pietra, Sottosegretario MASAF – tbc; Campania Region)
09:45 – The activities of Unitab Europe in 2023-2025 – Tsvetan Filev, President of Unitab Europe 2023-2025
10:00 – UNITAB Europe – Current and Future challenges – Przemysław Noworyta, General Secretary of Unitab Europe
A look at the raw tobacco market
10:15 – Transforming tobacco: the rise of NGPs and regulatory challenges – Jose Becerril, Euromonitor
10:35 – Global tobacco market dynamics: understanding the current production context – Mercedes Vázquez, ITGA
10:55 – The European raw tobacco market: challenges and future perspectives – Valentina Vita, Deltafina
Q&A
11:30 – Coffee break – Elements Bar, Ground Floor
Seasonal reports of raw tobacco producer countries: challenges and perspectives
12:00 – Country reports – Italy, Poland, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, Swiss, North Macedonia
14:00 – Buffet Lunch – Hotel main restaurant, Pulcinella room (1st Floor)
Manufacturing industries and their prospects on the European tobacco market
15:15 – From Vision to Action: the future of European agricultural supply chains and the supply chain agreements for innovation and skills development - Cesare Trippella, PMI
15:30 – JTI’s vision for a sustainable future of the Italian tobacco supply chain - Adriana Valle, JTI
15:45 – Investment and innovation: the perspectives of BAT on future challenges - Andrea Di Paolo, BAT
16:00 – Supporting the development and sustainability of the Dark Fire tobacco supply chain: the role of Manifatture Sigaro Toscano - Massimo Biondo, Manifatture Sigaro Toscano
Transparency and traceability of the European tobacco market: organizational models and best practices
16:15 – The M.A.C.I.S.T.E. project: monitoring agro-mafias and combating illicit activities in the tobacco sector – Gen. Carlo Ricozzi, Observatory of Crime in Agriculture and the Food Chain
16:30 – The raw tobacco production in Italy: a regulatory example to be widespread - Massimo Spigola, ONT Italia
16:45 – Raw tobacco shipments: the state of the art - Giorgio Burla, UNITAB Italia
17:00 – European tobacco retailers: watchdog of legality - Peter Schweinschwaller, Confédération Européenne des Détaillants en Tabac
17:10 – The tobacco production and distribution system in Italy: a model worth exporting - Mario Antonelli, Federazione Italiana Tabaccai
17:30 General Assembly and election of the new President of UNITAB EUROPE (Members Only)
20:30 – Social Dinner – Hotel main restaurant, Pulcinella room (1st Floor)
WEDNESDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2025
The upcoming regulatory challenges for the tobacco supply chain: CAP, TED, TPD and COP11
09:15 – What is next for the Common Agricultural Policy? – Prof. Felice Adinolfi, University of Bologna and Centro Studi Divulga
09:35 – The implications of the revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive for the European tobacco supply chain - Eleonora Santi, PMI
09:55 – Main European regulatory challenges and updates from Brussels - Nathalie Darge, Tobacco Europe
10:15 – COP11: What’s Coming Your Way – Maria Reymão, Universal Leaf Tobacco
10:35 – UTP: controls and monitoring in the agricultural and raw tobacco sectors - Felice Assenza, ICQRF MASAF
11:30 – Coffee break – Elements Bar, Ground Floor
The protection of economic, environmental and social values of the European raw tobacco chain
12:00 – The socio-economic value of the tobacco supply chain in Europe: current state of the art and evolution - Denis Pantini, Nomisma
12:20 – Tobacco, CAP and future prospects - Juan Eloy Rodríguez Ucedo, Junta de Extremadura
12:35 – The European tobacco regulatory framework: what’s next? A series of online interventions by MEPs (Pina Picierno; Stefano Bonaccini; Paolo Borchia; Salvatore De Meo; Marco Squarta)
13:15 – The role of the Regions in the sustainability of tobacco growing in Italy A series of interventions by regional and local politicians (Simona Meloni, Umbria Region – tbc; Nicola Caputo, Campania Region)
13:50 – Video message from the Polish Minister of Agriculture Stefan Krajewski
14:00 – Buffet Lunch – Hotel main restaurant, Pulcinella room (1st Floor)
The sustainability of tobacco farming: innovation, agronomical practices and defense strategies
15:15 – New approaches for tobacco pest control - Ernesto Lahoz, CREA CI Caserta
15:35 – Tools to support tobacco growing in the ecological transition process towards sustainability – Annalisa Saccardo, Ambiente e Territorio – Coldiretti
15:50 – Overview on tobacco plant defense - Martina Cappelletti, ONT Italia
16:00 – The role of varietal lines in flue cured tobacco defense strategies to root-knot nematodes - Linda Franceschetti, FAT
16:10 – New bioproducts for tobacco farming - Michele Falce, Novamont
16:20 – New fungicides and digital applications for sustainable tobacco crop management - Dario Spaccatrosi, Syngenta
16:30 – Tobacco portfolio crop protection – Sipcam Italy, Update 2025 - Alessandro Guarnone, Sipcam
16:40 – The development of specific machinery for the cultivation and curing of tobacco - Alessio Scarscelli, De Cloet
16:50 – Machinery and equipment for tobacco growing - Spapperi Company, video contribution
17:00 – Nature’s solution to higher yields: the sustainable promise of KEY11235 - Katia Welvaert, Agrasoul
17:15 – Closing remarks – President of Unitab Europe 2025-2027
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THURSDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2025
07:30 – Departure to Benevento for the field visit
18:00 – Back in Naples
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