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Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
21/10/2019
CAP

Joint open letter to Members of the European Parliament calling for a more ambitious CAP

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"

22/05/2019
GMOs

Open letter to the European Commission - New GMOs and the work programme of the next European Commission

17/05/2019
GMOs

Open letter to Spitzenkandidaten - New GMOs and the work programme of the next European Commission

08/05/2019
Food policy

Open letter to the lead candidates for the role of European Commission President on a common food policy and a VP responsible for sustainable food systems

07/05/2019
Food policy

Letter from 55 civil society organisations to EU Heads of Government for the nomination of next EU Commissioners

15/04/2019
CAP

Open letter to the Council Permanent Representations on the recommendations of the organic farming sector concerning the CAP’s future Green Architecture ahead of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting

25/03/2019
CAP

Open letter to Members of the European Parliament’s AGRI Committee on supporting organic farming in the CAP vote on the 2nd of April 2019

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

20/12/2017
Seeds

High number of patent applications for plants and animals

17/11/2017
CAP

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

Open letter Annex
12/07/2017
Food policy

Organic food in green public procurement can drive EU sustainable consumption policy

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

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

08/11/2012
CAP

A message to EU Heads of State: No more blank cheques for harmful agriculture!

07/05/2012
CAP

European Parliamentarians must demand full transparency in CAP decision-making process

20/03/2012
CAP

New CAP should address EU protein deficit and support local protein production

27/01/2012
GMOs

Open letter about EU’s assessment of GM animals

17/10/2011

On Green Paper on promotion measures and information provision for agricultural products

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

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

Position papers
14/12/2019
Agroecology

Organic and agroecology: working to transform our food system

29/05/2019
GMOs Seeds

Plant Reproductive Material in the new Organic Regulation (EU) 2018/848

29/10/2018

Position paper on the Impact of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit on organic imports to and exports from the UK across EU Member States.

09/10/2018
CAP

Towards a post-2020 CAP that supports farmers and delivers public goods to Europeans

29/09/2018
Fairness & transparency

Position Paper on the Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Unfair Trading Practices

15/03/2018
Organic regulations

Interpretation Note on the use of lithothamnium in organic processed products

20/12/2017
Organic regulations

Position paper on Organic textile: Protecting the integrity of the organic label

07/10/2017
GMOs

Compatibility of breeding techniques in organic systems

25/02/2017
Plant health care

IFOAM EU position paper on the Commission proposal for a new fertiliser regulation

22/02/2017
Climate change

IFOAM EU position paper on the Effort Sharing Regulation and Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) regulation

19/01/2017
CAP

A CAP for healthy farms, healthy people, healthy planet

19/09/2011
Soil

The EU Soil Directive – building the foundations for a quagmire or healthy humus?

 
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