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Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
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"

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

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

29/01/2015
Biodiversity CAP

Implementation of Ecological Focus Areas and impacts on biodiversity

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

18/06/2010
Biodiversity

On stakeholder consultation – post-2010 biodiversity strategy

29/04/2010
Organic regulations

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

Factsheets and manuals
25/06/2024
Organic regulations

Management of pesticide residues in organic products – a follow-up brief 

IFOAM Organics Europe published its Position Paper on the Management of Pesticide Residues in Organic Products early summer in 2023.…
01/03/2024
Climate change

Organic: Safeguarding climate and nature

Climate change and its consequences threaten agricultural systems and our food production. Farmers are already facing big challenges as a…
01/10/2010
Climate change

Organic - part of the solution! Climate change

Reports and studies
01/12/2019
Climate change Food policy Food security

EU Food and Farming Policy, and Food Security

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 
08/08/2019
Climate change Soil

Climate Change and Land - An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

Institute: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)  – Authors: 107 experts from 52 countries 
18/04/2015
Climate change

Feeding the people: Agroecology for nourishing the world and transforming the agri-food system

18/02/2015
Climate change

Impacts on the EU 2030 climate target of including LULUCF in the climate and energy policy framework

18/02/2010
Climate change

Organic food and farming: A system approach to meet the sustainability challenge

Press releases
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

16/04/2019
Agroecology Climate change

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

22/01/2019
Organic regulations Plant health care

IFOAM EU welcomes the agreement on a new Fertiliser Regulation

17/12/2015
Biodiversity CAP

Council conclusions on EU Biodiversity Strategy need to follow with targeted actions and investment

27/11/2015
Agroecology Climate change

Earth to Paris: The organic movement calls for an end to high-emitting industrial farming practices

13/10/2015
Organic regulations

Moving in the right direction with Parliament vote on organic, but obstacles still remain

29/09/2015
Agroecology

Feeding the people: global agri-food system needs fundamental change

04/08/2015
Climate change

Response to article claiming organic farming has increased carbon emissions

The article published in the mail online on the paper  ‘Does certified organic farming reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production?…
16/06/2015
Climate change

New research shows risk of including land use and forests in EU's emission target

16/06/2015
Organic regulations

Agri council on organic: reasonable compromise took up many sector demands

11/06/2015
Organic regulations

EU policies should support organic production and consumption

Riga, 11 June 2015 – At this politically important moment for the organic regulation reform – between an informal AGRIFISH…
10/06/2015
Organic regulations

Latest Council compromise: Risk of less harmonised rules for organic in EU

02/06/2015
Organic regulations

IFOAM EU at informal Council: We need an organic growth agenda for Europe

26/05/2015
Organic regulations

EU Parliament draft report on organic regulation, going in the right direction

11/05/2015
Organic regulations

Organic regulation proposal: No agreement without the organic sector

05/05/2015
Organic regulations

Ministers display a diversity of opinions on organic

13/03/2015
Organic regulations

Don't rush regulation

20/12/2011
Biodiversity CAP

Biodiversity objectives must be part of a reformed CAP

Position papers
14/12/2019
Agroecology

Organic and agroecology: working to transform our food system

 
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