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IFOAM EU urges to take advantage of EU´s most successful agricultural quality scheme: organic production |
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Prague, 12/03/2009 - Organic is the most successful EU food quality scheme – it combines high quality products with delivering an array of public goods.
Despite the financial crisis a still booming organic sector offers excellent opportunities for farmers and food processors, in a way that is good for rural jobs, for the environment and for climate change, and producing food that consumers want. On the occasion of the high level conference of the Czech EU Presidency on Agricultural Quality Production the IFOAM EU Group urges policy makers to use this potential through a proper, quality-minded policy.
Opened by EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, the conference followed the Commission’s Green Paper on EU Agriculture Products Quality Policy.
The IFOAM EU Group was present at the conference through its President Francis Blake, who delivered a speach during the first day of the event, and its Director Marco Schluter. The speech and the presentation of Mr Blake ara available here.
Please read the full text of the press release of IFOAM EU Group on the occasion in English or Czech.
In October 2008 the European Commission issued a Green Paper on Agricultural Product Quality Policy to initiate consultation on how to improve the EU policy instruments related to quality. The current conference is a second step towards the formulation of a Commission Communication on Quality of Agricultural Products which is expected in May 2009 and could later result in legislative amendments affecting agricultural producers and processors.
For more on the Commission's position on a EU agricultural product quality policy, check this page. Conclusions from the stakeholder consultation round after the issuance of the Green Paper are also available.
More on the conference itself can be found here.
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