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Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
15/12/2022
GMOs

IFOAM Organics Europe and ENGA letter to COM Kyriakides and Wojciechowski regarding the impact assessment on potential future legislation on “New Genomic Techniques” (NGTs)

01/12/2022
Labelling Textiles

Joint open letter on concerns over PEF methodology for textiles

10/11/2022
Plant health care

Joint letter to call on the Parliament and the Council to support the Commission’s proposal on the SUR

29 NGOs, the European organic movement, beekeepers and IBMA (biocontrol manufacturers) call on the Parliament and the Council to support…
03/11/2022
Plant health care

Joint statement from 16 organisations across Europe on the SAIO Regulation regarding PPPs' records to be kept by professional users

We co-signed with 15 NGOs this joint statement regarding the SAIO (Statistics on Agricultural Inputs and Outputs) Regulation (approved by the European Parliament…
26/10/2022
Textiles

Open letter on concerns about the PEF methodology and its application to apparel and footwear products

24/10/2022
Plant health care

The Commission’s new initiative for a Fertiliser Communication and the urgency of the Integrated Nutrients Management Action Plan

24/10/2022
Plant health care

Joint letter on the Commission’s new initiative for a Fertiliser Communication and the urgency of the Integrated Nutrients Management Action Plan

04/10/2022
GMOs

European Commission’s biased road to deregulation of new GMOs

Targeted survey is fatally flawed and cannot be used for impact assessment of “new genomic techniques” legislation.
21/03/2022
Plant health care

Publication of the revision of the legislation on the sustainable use of pesticides, on 23 March 2022

17/03/2022
CAP Food policy Food security

Re: EP resolution on food security

The war against Ukraine raises legitimate concerns over price increases and availability of certain agriculture inputs, namely cereals for animal…
07/03/2022
Food policy

Joint open letter on concerns over PEF methodology for agri-food products

28/02/2022
Plant health care

Joint statement on the revision of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive

February 28, 2022 – We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about the lack of ambition in the proposal on…
02/12/2021
Climate change

Joint letter on carbon farming in the "Restoring Sustainable Carbon Cycles" initiative

22/10/2021
GMOs

IFOAM Organics Europe submission to public consultation - Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques

IFOAM Organics Europe would like to take this opportunity to express its concerns with the proposed way forward in the Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) and highlight…
06/09/2021
GMOs

NGOs response to EU commission's report on new GMOs

21/06/2021
Biodiversity Plant health care

Beekeeping organisations and civil society concerns on pesticide risk assessment methodology and bees' protection from pesticides

20/05/2021
CAP

CAP Strategic Plans Regulation: Deleting article 13a on organic farming will have drastic consequences for the organic sector throughout Europe

29/04/2021
Biodiversity Soil

IFOAM Organics Europe contribution to the public consultation on new EU Soil Strategy

27/04/2021
Animal welfare Food policy

Ending the use of cages in animal farming

Ending the use of cages in animal farming. “End the cage age” ECI received 1.4 million verified signatures from every…
30/03/2021
GMOs

Regulation of new genomic technique

25/03/2021
CAP

Open letter calling for ambition in trilogues for a green and fair reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

05/03/2021
CAP

Time to deliver a framework for a balanced agricultural sector: Act for a CMO that respects climate, biodiversity and farmers in Europe and beyond!

01/03/2021
Fairness & transparency

Two months left to transpose the EU Unfair Trading Practices Directive

23/10/2018
GMOs

Open letter to Commissioner Vella and Commissioner Andriukaitis - Position of the European Union during the COP 14 – CP/MOP9 – NP/MOP3 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 2018

16/10/2018
GMOs

A call to protect food systems from genetic extinction technology: The global food and agriculture movement says NO to release of gene drives

09/08/2018
GMOs

Open letter to Commissioner President Juncker - Landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice clarifies that new techniques of genetic engineering fall under EU legislation on GMOs

12/04/2018
Fairness & transparency

Unfair Trading Practices: New proposal is a step forward but promoting fairness in the whole chain remains a challenge

26/03/2018
Animal welfare Climate change

Less and better: A call for policy action on animal farming

20/03/2018
GMOs Seeds

Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected

22/02/2018
CAP

Open letter: MFF post-2020 - Prioritising organics can transform the agri-food sector and rural areas

17/11/2010
Organic regulations

On European standards for natural and organic cosmetics

17/11/2010
Plant health care

On EFSA revision of lime sulphur and Azadirachtin

17/11/2010
Organic regulations

On processing – Annexes VIII and IX of Reg. (EC) No 889/2008 ‐ the first areas to be discussed by the expert group

15/10/2010
Animal welfare

On draft Commission report on cloning of animals for food

29/09/2010
Organic regulations

On re-examination of nitrite/nitrate, SO2 and HCl

09/07/2010
GMOs

On protection of food and farm sector from GMO contamination

18/06/2010
Biodiversity

On stakeholder consultation – post-2010 biodiversity strategy

29/04/2010
Organic regulations

On Committee vote on regulation on novel foods – 4th May

15/03/2010
Food policy

On the draft report on the provision of food information to consumers (COM(2008)0040 – C6‐0052/2008 – 2008/0028(COD))

15/03/2010
Animal welfare

On key amendments of the Marit Paulsen report on evaluation and assessment of the Action Plan on the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2006‐2010 (COM(2006)0013 – 009/2202(INI))

Factsheets and manuals
06/12/2022
Plant health care

Press briefing: EU’s first legally binding pesticide reduction targets under threat

IFOAM Organics Europe & GLOBAL 2000 press briefing on the background and threats to the EU Sustainable Use of Plant…
30/11/2022
Textiles

Social & environmental impacts of organic and non-organic textiles - An overview of the literature

26/10/2022
Food policy

Zooming in on the limitations of the PEF methodology for agri-food products

30/06/2022
Organic regulations

Use of Flavourings in Organic Food

This guidance is based on IFOAM Organics Europe understanding of the new Regulation (EU) 2018/848 (referred to in this document…
09/06/2022
Plant health care

Proposal to develop a new indicator for monitoring the Farm to Fork pesticide reduction target

IFOAM Organics Europe calls for the European Commission to develop a new indicator for monitoring the Farm to Fork pesticide…
29/06/2021
25% organic target CAP

EU-27: Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans

EU27: Prospects & developments for organic in CAP strategic plans ‘Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans‘…
29/06/2021
25% organic target CAP

Austria: Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans

Austria: Prospects & developments for organic in CAP strategic plans ‘Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans‘…
29/06/2021
25% organic target CAP

Belgium: Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans

Belgium: Prospects & developments for organic in CAP strategic plans Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans‘…
29/06/2021
25% organic target CAP

Bulgaria: Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans

Bulgaria: Prospects & developments for organic in CAP strategic plans ‘Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans’…
29/06/2021
25% organic target CAP

Croatia: Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans

Croatia: Prospects & developments for organic in CAP strategic plans ‘Prospects & developments for organic in national CAP Strategic Plans’…
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