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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)

01/12/2022
Labelling Textiles

Joint open letter on concerns over PEF methodology for textiles

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.
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

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

20/03/2018
GMOs Seeds

Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected

27/01/2012
GMOs

Open letter about EU’s assessment of GM animals

Organic infographics and videos
Factsheets and manuals
05/12/2018
GMOs

Practical guidelines: How to avoid GMOs contaminations - For farmers, food & feed processors

01/08/2018
Climate change Knowledge for organic

Climate-friendly practices on your farm - A practical manual

Extreme temperatures and weather events during the last springs and summers have left no doubt about the relevance of climate…
23/05/2018
Climate change Knowledge for organic

SOLMACC – Policy recommendations

Institute: Ekologiska Landbrukarna, FiBL , Bioland, AIAb and IFOAM EU 
22/12/2012
Water

Organic Approaches to Rural Development Policy: Water

22/06/2009
Water

Organic - part of the solution! Water

Leaflets
05/06/2019
GMOs

All techniques of genetic modification must be regulated

Organic farming is GMO-free per definition but is endangered by the development of new techniques of genetic modification. If their…
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 
Reports and studies
23/09/2019
Climate change Fairness & transparency Soil Water

Organic Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals – Part of the Solution

Institute: EOSTA and Nature & More – Author: Simon de Schaetzen 
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

18/02/2009
GMOs Seeds

[Summary] Economic impacts of labelling thresholds for the adventitious presence of genetically engineered organisms in conventional and organic seed

18/02/2009
GMOs

Economic impacts of labelling thresholds for the adventitious presence of genetically engineered organisms in conventional and organic seed

Press releases
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

07/11/2019
GMOs

Organic food and farming movement asks for immediate action on new genetic engineering techniques

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…
24/07/2019
GMOs

The organic movement calls to maintain and correctly implement the GMO legislation

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

31/08/2018
Climate change Knowledge for organic

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

25/07/2018
GMOs

IFOAM EU welcomes the European Court of Justice decision that new genetic engineering techniques will be regulated as GMOs

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

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

18/01/2018
GMOs

European Court of Justice Advocate General misses the opportunity to clarify the legal status of new genetic engineering techniques

15/01/2018
GMOs

The Organic food and farming movement calls for the regulation of new genetic engineering technques as GMOs

26/11/2012
Water

EU water blueprint must lead to a "blue" and sustainable CAP

12/07/2012
Seeds

European citizens must stand up for diversity on our plates!

24/05/2012
Seeds

Der Verlust der Saatgut-Vielfalt muss gestoppt werden

24/05/2012
Seeds

Il faut sans délai stopper le déclin de la biodiversité au sein des semences

24/05/2012
Seeds

Seed diversity decline must urgently be stopped

09/03/2012
GMOs

Council failed to reach improvement for GMO free food and farming

Position papers
06/09/2022
Seeds

Position Paper on the review of EU rules on Plant Reproductive Material

Harnessing the potential of cultivated plant diversity for sustainable agriculture. The organic movement welcomes the plans of the Commission to…
29/05/2019
GMOs Seeds

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

 
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