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Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
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…
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…
09/10/2023
CAP Plant health care

Don't delete article 43 - CAP funding for effective pesticide reductions

Public funds need to be used to support farmers in taking the measures needed to effectively reduce pesticides, protect health…
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…
20/05/2021
CAP

CAP Strategic Plans Regulation: Deleting article 13a on organic farming will have drastic consequences for the organic sector throughout Europe

25/03/2021
CAP

Open letter calling for ambition in trilogues for a green and fair reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

05/03/2021
CAP

Time to deliver a framework for a balanced agricultural sector: Act for a CMO that respects climate, biodiversity and farmers in Europe and beyond!

01/03/2021
Fairness & transparency

Two months left to transpose the EU Unfair Trading Practices Directive

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

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"

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

12/04/2018
Fairness & transparency

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

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
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

19/01/2017
CAP

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

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

22/05/2015
Fairness & transparency

Request to include the Land as a Resource Communication in the 2016 Work Programme of the European Commision

24/02/2015
Fairness & transparency

Petition to the European Parliament 'Preserving and managing European farmland as our common wealth: A CSO Call for a sustainable and fair EU governance of farmland

29/01/2015
Biodiversity CAP

Implementation of Ecological Focus Areas and impacts on biodiversity

28/05/2014
CAP

On using CAP rural development programmes to maximise the impact of the new EU Organic Action Plans

09/04/2014
CAP

CAP implementation must enhance agro-ecological solutions, not support agrochemicals

21/03/2014
CAP

On risks of suspension and cuts to organic farming support payments

06/03/2014
CAP

Letter to the attention of President Barroso in view of the college debate on the Common Agricultural Policy delegated acts

24/01/2014
CAP

On the CAP delegated acts

14/11/2013
CAP

On EAFRD delegated act - organic payments and greening

02/09/2013
CAP

Boost sustainable investments in rural areas and green job creation. Reject further cuts to Pillar 2

28/02/2013
CAP

Civil Society alarmed by the prospect of regressive Common Agricultural Policy reform

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

27/09/2011
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

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

Position papers
20/04/2021
25% organic target Farm to Fork

10 priorities for the Farm to Fork INI Report

10 priorities for the Farm to Fork INI Report. As the European Parliament is preparing its reaction (own-initiative report) to…
19/11/2020
25% organic target CAP EU Green Deal Farm to Fork

IFOAM Organics Europe suggestions for the new Organic Action plan

 
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