Patents filed by KWS are a threat to plant breeding in Europe
No Patents on Seeds! held a demonstration in December 6th at the KWS headquarters in Germany to coincide with the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting....
Commission proposal on the certification of carbon removals leaves crucial questions unanswered
The Commission’s proposal on the certification of carbon removals touches on important aspects like the need for carbon farming to contribute to multiple sustainability...
Green claims: better methodologies to assess environmental performance of food & textiles products
IFOAM Organics Europe welcomes news about the Commission’s decision to postpone the publication of the Substantiating Green Claim Directive. This will allow to re-evaluate the...
Chemical Residues in Organics: Dealing with residue handling
The new Organic Regulation (EU) 2018/848 came into force on 1 January 2022. It introduces new specifications and mechanisms to handle possible non compliances,...
OPTA Europe calls on the EU Commission to reconsider the sustainability labelling included in...
At the occasion of the Policy Exchange "Organics in the future EU Sustainable Food System" the organic traders and processors expressed their request to...
High stakes decade: European Organic Congress 2022 round-up
The mood was sombre at the opening session of the European Organic Congress 2022 – staged in Bordeaux, France – as participants demonstrated solidarity...
2022: 20 years of making Europe more organic and the Year of Organic
20 years of organic’s unified voice in European policymaking: This year, the European organic movement will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Anniversaries mark a point...
Farm to Fork: the role of organic and digital training activities to reach the...
In May 2020, the European Commission published the Farm to Fork strategy as a key element of the European Green Deal (new EU growth...
Fill the dish with 25% organic in 2030: additional targets and instruments for market...
Thursday morning at 9.00 the BIOFACH eSpecial congress started with the question what instruments are needed to fulfil the Farm to Fork aim of...
On the way to a harmonized approach for residue handling in the EU
FiBL-OPTA study has evaluated the four main approaches for handling residue cases in organic products which are currently applied in the EU. It shows...
