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• To promote within the EU the principles and practices of organic agriculture and food production as set out in the IFOAM Standards.
  
• To coordinate and represent IFOAM members in EU countries, within IFOAM, in the EU and elsewhere.
  
• To enable the exchange of information both between IFOAM members in EU countries and with other bodies worldwide.
  
• To assist in the coordination and dissemination of research in organic food production throughout the EU.
  
• To work towards the establishment of common policies within the Group in relation to the above.

• Regulation - working towards further harmonisation between IFOAM standards and 2092/91.
• Research - participating in relevant research projects, especially in dissemination of results.
• Policy - working to achieve an effective European organic action plan and in the longer term working with other like minded organisations to lobby for a more sustainable CAP.
• Enlargement - ensuring that the Candidate countries are able to play their full part in the EU Group’s activities.

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Events: Organic Congress, December 4 and 5, 2007

(December 20, 2007) More than 300 participants at the European Organic Congress in Brussels developed political recommendations for the future of EU agriculturaö policy.

The event, opened by Agricultural Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, identified the future challenges the organic sector is facing, how these can be solved, and how policy makers can ensure that society benefits from the various advantages of organic production.

Most speeches and presentations from the congress are available at the congress website.

Further information:

• IFOAM Press release of December 5, 2007: Organic congress concludes with new political agenda
• Congress Website

 

• July 17, 2006
  Info page Organic Revision launched
  
• December 21, 2005: Press Release IFOAM EU Group
  IFOAM EU Group welcomes revision of organic regulation
  
  
• Position Paper: Organic farming in the 7th Research Framework Programme of the EU
  
  
• Position Paper: The Revision of EC Regulation 2092/91.
  Approved by the IFOAM EU Group October 2005
  
  
• A Letter to Commissioner Fischer: Working for Organic Farming In Europe
  
  
• Position Paper: Dealing with Pesticide Residues in Organic Products
  
  
• Response to the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming
  
  
• Future research priorities of Organic Agriculture
  
  
• Labeling Threshold for GM Contamination in Non-GM Seed
  
  
• Recommendations for the Content of the European Action Plan for Food and Farming from the IFOAM EU Group
  
  
• A Sustainable Agricultural Policy for Europe
  
  
• Co-existence Between GM and Non-GM crops: Necessary Anti-contamination and Liability Measures