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Position Paper on Stakeholder Involvement |
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September 30, 2006
In September 2006, the IFOAM EU Group published its position paper on stakeholder involvement. The paper was following up one of the Group’s major criticisms of the
revision of the organic regulation proposal. This was that the organic sector was not
sufficiently involved in the process and that also the proposal does not include any stronger involvement in the future. |
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The paper outlines the fact that the organic food and farming sector has been developed by a dynamic cooperation between all market actors, consumers, and environmentalists long before there was a common EU legislation in force. It is of fundamental importance for future dynamic development and the credibility of the legislation that the stakeholders’ ownership and engagement is preserved in order to secure the unique character of an organic farming regulation. Opposite to classic legislation, the organic legislation is a bottom up regulation.
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