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IFOAM EU Group Documents on Revision
Position papers

Newsletters
  • July 19, 2006 -IFOAM EU Group newsletter No 13, extra edition revision of Organic Regulation
    Translation: FR; DE; EL; ES; PT; IT; HU; PL; SK; NL; BG; NO; EE; DK
  • December 15, 2006 -IFOAM EU Group newsletter No 14, extra edition revision of Organic Regulation
    Translation: FR; DE; PT; SK; ES
  • April 21, 2008 - IFOAM EU Group newsletter no. 22, extra edition on the revision and the new implementing rules
Correspondance
  • July 26, 2005 - Letter to Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel on the revision
  • March 27, 2006 - Letter to the Austrian Presidency sending crucial questions
  • April - June 2006 - Letter to the Austrian Presidency commenting the first compromise papers (19.4./26.5./7.6.2006).
  • October 18, 2006 - Letter to the Finnish Presidency commenting the timetable and content of new compromsie papers
  • October 26, 2006 - Letter to the Finnish Presidency commenting the paragrapghs on GMOs
  • November 13, 2006 - IFOAM Letter to the Finnish Presidency on Imports
  • November 21 , 2006 - IFOAM EU Group letter to Commissioner Fischer Boel
  • November 24, 2006 - IFOAM EU letter to the Finnish Presidency regarding the German-French proposal amending the Finnish compromise paper from 25/10/2006 and on imports
  • November 28, 2006 - IFOAM EU Group letter refering to the revision and organic processed food
  • December 4, 2006 - IFOAM Letter to the Finnish Presidency on organic Imports regards the Finnish Presidency text from 30/11/2006
  • April 18, 2007 - IFOAM EU Group letter to the Commission with comments and suggestions  for the implementing rules that will replace Annex VI in the proposed new organic regulation.
  • April 30, 2007 - IFOAM EU Group letter to the German Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection with comments and suggestions on the proposal for a new Council regulation on organic production and labeling.
  • May 14, 2007 - IFOAM EU Group letter to the SCA about the discussion on Article 16.g from the Proposals for Council Regulations on organic production and labelling of organic products.
  • September 3, 2007 -  IFOAM EU Group letter to the European Commission about integrating  sodium and potassium carbonates into the implementing rules of the new organic regulation.
  • November 27 - letter to the Head of Unit Organic Farming of the European Commission on acids for salt bath treatment in cheese production.
  • December 19, 2007- Letter to the Head of Unit Organic Farming of the European Commission on the new implementing rules of organic production.
  • February 20, 2008 - Letter to the Head of Unit F5/ Organic Farming of the European Commission on the new implementing rules for organic production, version Jan. 10, 2008
  • April 14, 2008 - The IFOAM EU Group sent a letter to the Head of the Organic Unit with a request to postpone the introduction of the organic regulation until 2010.
  • April 23, 2008 - Letter to the Head of Unit F5/ Organic Farming of the European Commission on the new implementing rules for organic production, version April 10, 2008
  • May 19, 2008 - IFOAM EU letter to the Deputy DG of DG AGRI, Loretta Dormal-Marino and the Head of Unit for Organic Farming, Jean-Francois Hulot  with comments on the new implementing rules for organic production, version April 22, 2008
  • August 29, 2008 - Letter to the Head of Unit H3/ Organic Farming of the European Commission on the draft implementing rules for imports (version 22.07.2008).
Press releases


Presentations
  • March 27, 2006 - Presentation from IFOAM EU president Francis Blake at the conference in the European Parliament.
  • May 30, 2006 - Presentation from the IFOAM EU Group co-ordinator Marco Schlüter at the organic congress in Denmark, Odense.

Research Projects

The IFOAM EU Group participates at three research projects which are related to the revision of the Regulation on organic food and farming.
  • Organic Revision - Research to support the revision of the EU Regulation on organic agriculture
  • ORGAP - Evaluation of the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming.
  • ORWINE - Organic viticulture and wine-making: development of environment and consumer friendly technologies for organic wine quality improvement and scientifically based legislative framework.
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