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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)

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.
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…
30/11/2020
CAP

Transparency of CAP Trilogues process

30/11/2020
CAP

Open letter calling for transparency of CAP Trilogues process

14/10/2020
CAP Farm to Fork

President letter to MEPs on the CAP Strategic Plan Regulation

01/10/2020
CAP EU Green Deal Farm to Fork

Open letter calling for full alignment of the reformed CAP with the European Green Deal

22/09/2020
CAP

Letter to Presidents of the European Parliament’s Political Groups on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and organic farming as a tool to reach Green Deal targets

20/07/2020
CAP EU Green Deal

Request for a meeting re. CAP alignment with the European Green Deal

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

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

17/11/2017
CAP

Open Letter: CAP Communication - Explicit link between income support and public goods needed

Open letter Annex
10/04/2017
GMOs

Open letter to Commission President Juncker - Genetically Modified Organisms and democratic principles

03/04/2017
GMOs

NGOs letter - Objection to the authorisation of GM maize varieties - vote on the 5th April

27/03/2017
GMOs Seeds

Open letter to the European Commission on agri-business mergers

01/03/2017
CAP Plant health care

Open letter to MEPs to support amendments proposed in the Commission Delegated Regulation 639/2014 to ban pesticides on EFAs

13/02/2017
GMOs

Open letter - Improved EU decision-making in the area of health and consumer protection

19/01/2017
CAP

For healthy farms, people and planet the next CAP reform must deliver public goods

01/09/2011
CAP

RE: Inter-Service Consultation on CAP reform: concerns that greening of the CAP is being jeopardised and losing environmental focus

22/06/2011
CAP

On financial perspectives 2014-2020, future of rural development programmes

09/07/2010
GMOs

On protection of food and farm sector from GMO contamination

Organic infographics and videos
Leaflets
16/10/2020
25% organic target CAP Farm to Fork

25% organic land in Europe by 2030 - Ambitious but achievable with the right policies in place

18/06/2020
Knowledge for organic Seeds

LIVESEED - Boosting organic seed and plant breeding across Europe

Seeds are the foundation of farming. Therefore, organic production should start with organic seed. Applying organic seed is mandatory according…
14/09/2018
GMOs

Keeping GMOs out of organic - Project presentation August 2018-2020

The project ‘Keeping GMOs out of organic’ was developed in 2018 and revised in August 2018, after the adoption of…
23/05/2018
Climate change Knowledge for organic

SOLMACC - Advocacy leaflet

Institute: Ekologiska Landbrukarna, FiBL , Bioland, AIAb and IFOAM EU 
23/10/2017
Climate change Knowledge for organic

SOLMACC – Viable climate-friendly farming – Socio-economic strategies

Institute: Ekologiska Landbrukarna, FiBL , Bioland, AIAb and IFOAM EU – Authors: Sigrid Griese (Bioland), Lin Bautze (FiBL), Ann-Kathrin Trappenberg (IFOAM EU), Stephen Meredith (IFOAM EU), Eric Gall (IFOAM EU) and…
23/08/2017
Vision

Transforming food and farming - Making it happen, an organic roadmap

Reports and studies
03/03/2022
25% organic target CAP

Evaluation of support for organic farming in draft CAP Strategic Plans (2023-2027)

All 27-EU Member States had to submit their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) national Strategic Plans (SP) by 1 January 2022…
21/12/2018
Fairness & transparency

Taxation as a tool towards true cost accounting

STUDY ON THE REDUCTION OF VAT FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTS & INCREASED TAXES FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY UNFRIENDLY PESTICIDES
26/10/2018
GMOs

Final Report of the Keeping GMOs out of Food project 2014 – August 2018

17/04/2018
GMOs

Socio-Economic Impacts of GMOs on European Agriculture

23/12/2017
CAP

Towards a new public goods payment model for remunerating farmers under the CAP Post-2020

18/03/2010
CAP

Proposal for a new EU Common Agricultural Policy

Press releases
07/06/2022
25% organic target CAP

Member States should enhance support for organic farming in CAP Strategic Plans in line with Commission's observations

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 7 JUNE 2022 – Over the past days, the organic food and farming movement sent letters to national…
24/03/2022
Farm to Fork Food security

EU Parliament saves Farm to Fork's integrity but concedes on biodiversity

BRUSSELS, 24 MARCH 2022 – IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes the European Parliament’s support to the Farm to Fork Strategy as…
03/03/2022
25% organic target CAP

Organic Movement calls for increased support for organic farming in CAP Strategic Plans to achieve Farm to Fork's targets

02/02/2022
Farm to Fork Knowledge for organic Plant health care

EU organic movement calls on Member States to provide reliable data on organic and other Farm to Fork targets

23/10/2020
CAP EU Green Deal Farm to Fork

CAP ‘reform’: Parliament’s small steps not good enough for a green transformation of food and farming

19/10/2020
CAP EU Green Deal Farm to Fork

Organic Movement calls on MEPs to align the CAP with the Green Deal ambitions

04/09/2020
CAP Organic regulations

IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes public consultation on new EU Organic Action Plan and additional time to finalize new organic rules

30/08/2020
CAP

March for agricultural reforms opens three days of protest at the informal agriculture council in Koblenz (Germany)

13/02/2020
CAP Farm to Fork

IFOAM EU calls for a target of 20% organic land in the EU

10/02/2020
CAP

New IFOAM EU report highlights the role of CAP Eco-schemes to incentivise sustainable farming practices

19/12/2018
Fairness & transparency

The organic food and farming movement welcomes the agreement on Unfair Trading Practices – A first step towards protecting the weakest actors in the food chain

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