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Official letters
![CAP Simplification Rules – we were consulted but not heard](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/JointLetter-420x540.png)
10/04/2024
CAP
CAP Simplification Rules – we were consulted but not heard
Brussels, 10 April 2024 Dear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,European Coordination Via Campesina and IFOAM Organics Europe both…
17/11/2017
CAP
Open Letter: CAP Communication - Explicit link between income support and public goods needed
Open letter Annex
Press releases
![Welcome back, Ms von der Leyen. EU organic looks forward to continue transforming our rural areas & food systems](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2022/11/pressrelease-1-420x540.png)
Welcome back, Ms von der Leyen. EU organic looks forward to continue transforming our rural areas & food systems
Re-election Ms von der Leyen as President of the EU Commission took place today, 18 July 2024, with 401 votes…
![Vote on CAP simplification, a missed opportunity for farmers & citizens](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/CAP-2-420x540.png)
24/04/2024
CAP
Vote on CAP simplification, a missed opportunity for farmers & citizens
BRUSSELS, 24 APRIL 2024 – Today’s vote in the European Parliament simplifying certain Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) rules will not…
![IFOAM Organics Europe regrets a CAP simplification without vision](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/CAP-2-420x540.png)
IFOAM Organics Europe regrets a CAP simplification without vision
BRUSSELS, 15 MARCH 2024 – IFOAM Organics Europe warns that the CAP simplification proposal presented today by the Commission is…
![NGT vote a step backward for biosafety that nonetheless safeguards the possibility for traceability and national “coexistence” measures](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2022/09/comm_website_THUMBNAILS-1-420x540.png)
07/02/2024
GMOs
NGT vote a step backward for biosafety that nonetheless safeguards the possibility for traceability and national “coexistence” measures
BRUSSELS, 07 FEBRUARY 2024 – Today the European Parliament voted on the legislative proposal on so-called “New Genomic Techniques” (NGTs).…
![IFOAM Organics Europe calls on MEPs to postpone plenary vote on NGTs as ENVI Committee vote leaves many issues unsolved](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2022/09/comm_website_THUMBNAILS-1-420x540.png)
25/01/2024
GMOs
IFOAM Organics Europe calls on MEPs to postpone plenary vote on NGTs as ENVI Committee vote leaves many issues unsolved
BRUSSELS, 24 JANUARY 2024 – Today, the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee) voted on the…
![Member States still reject GMO cultivation](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/GMOs-1-420x540.png)
27/03/2017
GMOs
Member States still reject GMO cultivation
![Effort Sharing Decision - Agriculture should play its part in emissions reduction, says organic farming](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/PR-420x540.png)
Effort Sharing Decision - Agriculture should play its part in emissions reduction, says organic farming
BRUSSELS, 20 July 2016 – The organic food and farming movement welcomes the Commission’s proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
![CAP not delivering public goods promised](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/CAP-2-420x540.png)
15/07/2016
CAP
CAP not delivering public goods promised
![EU Parliament opposes import of three herbicide-resistant GM crops](https://www.organicseurope.bio/content/uploads/2020/06/GMOs-1-420x540.png)
03/02/2016
GMOs
EU Parliament opposes import of three herbicide-resistant GM crops
BRUSSELS, 3 February 2016 – Today, the European Parliament voted to oppose the import of three genetically modified (GM) soybeans…