IFOAM Organics Europe
     

Library

In this section you can find all our resources organised by type, topic and sorted chronologically. Click on the kind of resources you’re searching for and browse our latest publications!

Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
05/03/2024
Water

Nature-based water resilience cannot wait

Open letter: Nature-based water resilience cannot wait Brussels, 5 March 2024 Dear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, We…
09/03/2023
Climate change GMOs

Key issues for the Environment Council meeting on 16 March 2023 - Letter to Environment Minister

02/12/2021
Climate change

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

23/11/2020
Climate change

December 2020 Climate Summit and COP 26 in November 2021 in Glasgow. Food and farming must play their part in meeting the Paris Climate targets

29/05/2019
Organic regulations Seeds

Common letter to the European Commission on the Organic Regulation 2018/848 and the upcoming Delegated Act on "Organic Heterogeneous Materials"

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

20/12/2017
Seeds

High number of patent applications for plants and animals

12/07/2017
Seeds

Request for prolongation of the temporary experiment set up by Commission implementing Decision 2014/150/EU providing for certain derogations for the marketing of populations of plant species

16/05/2017
Climate change

Open letter: EU LULUCF rules will set a precedent

27/03/2017
GMOs Seeds

Open letter to the European Commission on agri-business mergers

04/10/2016
Climate change

Open letter to environment ministers on the Effort Sharing and the LULUCF Regulations

13/05/2016
Climate change

Upcoming exchange of views in the Agriculture Council on climate and agriculture (May 17) with particular reference to the forthcoming Effort Sharing Decision and LULUCF proposals

26/04/2016
Seeds

Vote on the McIntyre report in COMAGRI

22/04/2016
Climate change

Letter to ensure that the 2030 Effort Sharing Decision, the EU's largest climate instrument, is fit for purpose

22/02/2016
Climate change

Open letter by 76 public health, environmental, civil society, organic farming and animal welfare organisations on the opening of the trilogue negotiations on the National Emissions Ceilings Directive

03/02/2016
Seeds

Stop patents on conventionally bred seeds, plants and animals

17/12/2015
Seeds

EP Resolution on Patents and Plant Breeders Rights

19/11/2015
Organic regulations

On organic aquaculture - Use of non-organic juvenils on Organic Production

18/11/2015
Organic regulations

On the upcoming Trilogue Negotiations on the New Organic Regulation

16/10/2015
Climate change

Vote on the National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NEC) on 28 October

16/07/2015
Seeds

Call for an ambitious reform of the EU seed and Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) marketing law

18/06/2015
Climate change

EU LULUCF consultation

05/03/2015
Climate change

How to integrate LULUCF emissions in the next climate and energy package

25/02/2014
GMOs Seeds

Vote on Paulsen report on plant breeding (2012/2099(INI))

11/12/2013
Biodiversity Seeds

Parliament must stand up for S&PRM law that favours diversity

31/10/2013
GMOs Seeds

On college debate on 6 November on genetically modified maize

17/06/2013
Climate change

EU biofuels policy comes at an unacceptably high economic, social and environmental cost – time to fix a failed policy

27/09/2011
Organic regulations

Concerns about the intention to extend the scope of the Ecolabel to include agricultural food products, processed foods and products from aquaculture To Mr Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment and Dacian Cioloş, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development

17/11/2010
Organic regulations

On European standards for natural and organic cosmetics

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

29/09/2010
Organic regulations

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

29/04/2010
Organic regulations

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

16/10/2008
Organic regulations

Draft Regulation on a Community scheme COM (2008) 401/3

Press releases
24/04/2024
Seeds

EU Parliament advances organic plant breeding with new PRM legislation vote

BRUSSELS, 24 APRIL 2024 – Today’s vote on the Plant Reproductive Material Regulation (PRM) legislation could contribute to a balanced regulation…
19/03/2024
Seeds

IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes AGRI Committee vote on Plant Reproductive Material

BRUSSELS, 19 MARCH 2024 – The European organic movement considers today’s vote on the Plant Reproductive Material Regulation (PRM) legislation an…
05/10/2023
Farm to Fork GMOs Knowledge for organic Seeds

Six-fold increase in organic seeds needed in the next ten years in Europe - 2nd European Organic Seed Policy Conference shows pathways to make organic seeds a reality

The Spanish Presidency of the European Union put a spotlight on rural areas and agricultural resilience during a High-level Rural…
30/11/2022
Climate change

Commission proposal on the certification of carbon removals leaves crucial questions unanswered

27/04/2022
Climate change

European organic movement calls for a systemic approach to carbon farming recognising the multiple benefits of organic farming for climate and the environment

BRUSSELS, 27 APRIL 2022 – As carbon farming is a current priority on the EU agenda when it comes to…
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

22/03/2021
Knowledge for organic Seeds

New router database connects Member States' organic seed databases

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

01/10/2019
Seeds

EU Parliament, national governments and civil society organizations against patents on plants and animals

Handover of 25,000 statements to the European Patent Office. 1 October 2019 is the last day for filing statements at…
16/04/2019
Agroecology Climate change

IFOAM EU welcomes the new IDDRI study on agroecology and carbon neutrality by 2050

15/02/2019
Knowledge for organic R&I policy

Sharing knowledge and tools for organic farming - Organic Farm Knowledge platform has new design and content

22/01/2019
Organic regulations Plant health care

IFOAM EU welcomes the agreement on a new Fertiliser Regulation

01/10/2018
Organic regulations

EU Parliament moves to ban Unfair Trading Practices in the food supply chain

31/08/2018
Climate change Knowledge for organic

Climate-friendly farming demonstrates benefits for farmers & environment - End of SOLMACC project

28/05/2018
Animal welfare Knowledge for organic Plant health care

Improving inputs in organic farming - new Horizon 2020 project ‘RELACS’ started

19/04/2018
Organic regulations

European Parliament’s plenary adopts the new EU organic regulation. Implementing and delegated acts require joint efforts

Load more
 
IFoam
I accept I do not accept