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Press releases
18/07/2024
EU Green Deal Fairness & transparency Food systems

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…
12/03/2024
Food policy Labelling

Parliament's vote on Green Claims Directive: IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes efforts to curb greenwashing and the acknowledgement of specific environmental assessment needs for agri-food

BRUSSELS, 12 MARCH 2024 – IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes today’s plenary vote on the directive on green claims. This directive…
14/02/2024
Food policy Labelling

Green claims: organic movement applauds renewed recognition of PEF's shortcomings for agrifood

BRUSSELS, 14 FEBRUARY 2024 – IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes today’s vote on green claims as it underscores the limitations of…
23/01/2024
Food policy Labelling

Green Claims: Organics Europe highlights Product Environmental Footprint method's shortcomings for agri-food

BRUSSELS, 23 JANUARY 2024 – As compromise amendment negotiations on the Green Claims Directive proposal are taking place within the…
05/09/2023
Agroecology Food security TP Organics

Organic and agroecological farming are the best guarantee for long-term food security

Brussels, 5 September 2023 – At today’s high-level expert webinar “Safeguarding long-term food security“, TP Organics, the European Technology Platform…
21/06/2023
About us GMOs

Jan Plagge re-elected President of IFOAM Organics Europe

BRUSSELS, 21 JUNE 2023 – At today’s General Assembly, IFOAM Organics Europe’s membership elected a new Board and Jan Plagge…
22/03/2023
Food policy Labelling

Green claims: The fight against greenwashing must be based on methodologies promoting the transition towards more sustainable food systems

07/03/2023
About us Events

IFOAM Organics Europe & Diversified Communications partner to support organic market growth

BRUSSELS, 07 MARCH 2023 – We are excited to announce that IFOAM Organics Europe, the European umbrella organisation for organic…
13/02/2023
Agroecology Food policy Labelling

EU organic movement warns against greenwashing

BRUSSELS, 13 FEBRUARY 2023 – IFOAM Organics Europe warns against the misuse of claims, labels, or communication initiatives about food…
14/12/2022
Food policy

Boosting organic farming & aquaculture to reach the Farm to Fork targets

29/11/2022
Food policy

Green claims: better methodologies to assess environmental performance of food & textiles products

16/06/2022
About us Events

European organic movement stands in solidarity with Ukrainian organic farmers at European Organic Congress

BORDEAUX, FRANCE, 16 JUNE 2022 – Today, ahead of the start of the European Organic Congress 2022, the Ukrainian organic…
11/05/2022
About us Events

20 Years of making Europe more organic

BRUSSELS, 11 MAY 2022 – Today, IFOAM Organics Europe celebrates its 20-years anniversary. Established in 2002 as the united voice…
31/03/2022
25% organic target Farm to Fork Food policy

EU Parliament AGRI Committee supports organic farming in vote on Organic Action Plan report

BRUSSELS, 31 MARCH 2022 – IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes ComAGRI’s vote on the Parliament’s Organic Action Plan (OAP) report. AGRI…
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…
25/03/2021
25% organic target Farm to Fork Food policy

IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes new Organic Action Plan

16/01/2021
CAP Food policy

“Wir haben es satt!” alliance: Use the election year to vote out an agricultural policy that is harmful to farmers, animals and the environment

03/07/2020
Events

Organic is part of the solution, speakers of European Organic Congress agree

30/06/2020
About us

Jan Plagge re-elected President of IFOAM Organics Europe (and a rebranding for IFOAM EU)

09/12/2019
Agroecology Farm to Fork Food policy

Organic food and farming calls for agroecology to be at the heart of the Farm to Fork Strategy

16/10/2019
About us CAP

Organic movement at the helm of two Civil Dialogue Groups

24/09/2019
Fairness & transparency

Coalition statement on the IMCO vote on UTPs

15/04/2019
Fairness & transparency

Joint press release: Civil society launches a campaign calling on the next Members of the European Parliament to make Europe more sustainable and fair by 2024

10/04/2019
Fairness & transparency

Taxation can be a tool towards true cost accounting according to new study

12/03/2019
Fairness & transparency

Joint press release: An important step closer to a fairer food chain for everyone

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

25/09/2018
CAP Events

The future of food & farming is fair and green: for a CAP & supply chain rewarding sustainable farmers

07/09/2018
Fairness & transparency

Joint statement on UTPs ahead of SCA

06/09/2018
Fairness & transparency

The organic food and farming movement supports putting an end to unfair trading practices

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

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

24/05/2018
CAP Food policy

The EU needs a blueprint for food and farming, finds new academic report

12/04/2018
Fairness & transparency

Key step taken to end human suffering in EU supermarket supply chains

12/04/2018
Fairness & transparency

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

05/09/2017
Events

Working together towards sustainable farming systems across Europe – 11th European organic congress

08/04/2016
About us

Change of Director at IFOAM EU

04/04/2016
About us

Strong Board & President for a strong European Organic Movement

13/02/2014
About us

New Board for a new era at IFOAM EU

26/02/2013
Animal welfare

Further information required on hen density scandal

27/11/2012
Events

The future of organic food processing: Sustainability - Quality - Integrity

21/11/2012
Food policy

Future EU promotional policy must focus on sustainability

17/04/2012
CAP Events

Organic farming must be at the heart of CAP reform

12/03/2012
Fairness & transparency

The EU Commission’s health and consumers department caves in to farmers and industry lobby request to allow the spread of highly dangerous pest

13/02/2012
CAP Food security Soil

State of soils requires policy action to ensure future food security

03/02/2012
CAP Events

The future of food and farming needs a broad societal consensus

12/01/2012
CAP Events

6th European Organic Congress: Smart change - towards a sustainable CAP

08/12/2011
Fairness & transparency

No space for fraud in organic production: tighter controls are bearing fruit

Position papers
07/12/2023
Animal welfare

IFOAM Organics Europe’s position paper on animal welfare practices and labelling

Explore our latest position paper outlining the status quo of organic farming’s view on animal welfare and current challenges in…
28/09/2022
Food policy

Position paper on sustainability labelling & the Planet-score 

IFOAM Organics Europe supports fighting greenwashing by substantiating green claims and supports the European Commission’s intention to increase visibility of…
26/08/2022
Food policy

Position paper on nutrition labelling & the Nutri-Score

17/03/2021
Food policy

Position paper on substantiating claims & the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

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