Business policy, public relations, organization, personnel management, finances

In her function as Managing Director of the German National Committee of IDF, Dr. Coldewey is the contact person for the International Dairy Federation. Her duties include

• the overall coordination of all activities with regard to the collaboration between Germany and IDF
• the nomination of experts for IDF committees on behalf of the member associations and the Federal Government
• comments on international requests for information directed to the German National Committee and answering of IDF surveys
• representation of German interests at international IDF events or at events of other international organizations

Contact person for dairy technology, environmental protection and law with the following main areas of activity:

• Immission control, approval procedures
• Problems of major accidents, energy usage
• water, waste water, cleaning, disinfection
• recycling/waste management and waste utilization
• process technology, technical standardization
• environmental management and auditing
• eco-balancing, packaging
• technical guidelines and codes of practise for the dairy industry
• Best Available Technology Reference Documents at EU level
• national surveys on environmetal data at dairies

Participates in / areas of responsibility:

• IDF Standing Committees on: Environment and Dairy Science and Technology
• technical working groups of the European Environmental Bureau and the Federal Environmental Agency
• VDM Working Group on Technology
• VDM Working Group on Water / Waste Water
• DIN Committee on Technical Standardization
• VDMA Committee on Technical Standardization