Rising resistance against patents on seeds and agricultural food products in Europe
Last November, the European Patent Office (EPO) reaffirmed a patent on beer and barley derived from traditional breeding granted to the breweries Carlsberg and...
Planet-score sets the pace for holistic eco-labelling
Almost everyone agrees that greenwashing is a problem. So, in theory, having a universal methodology for substantiating environmental claims across the whole of the...
OPTA Europe, defending organic processing and trade in the EU
OPTA Europe is an association with permanent headquarters in Brussels, uniting companies and associations with a large experience in the areas of organic processing...
What’s behind sustainability labelling?
The sustainability labelling of food, including organic food, informs consumers about the impact behind the production of a given food product. It is important...
EU organic movement takes legal action to defend reliable environmental labelling of food products
Actors involved in the ecological transition have high expectations of information systems, like labels, related to the environmental impact of products and services. Information...
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...
