Posted on July 3, 2011 3:57 pm | 0 comments
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 590/2011, published on June 20th, 2011, includes Canada in the list of third countries with Organic Production Rules and Control Systems equivalent to the European Union’s and approves new certification bodies for several Third Countries already listed. The Implementing Regulation amends Regulation (EU) 1235/2008 “laying down detailed rules for...
Posted on June 20, 2011 3:22 pm | 0 comments
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 426/2011, published on May 2nd, 2011, introduces the obligation of the Member States to maintain a publicly available record of all Organic Operators updated every year.
The lists shall also be available on the Internet and they will at least include the names and addresses of the operators with documentary evidence that they are subject to the control...
Posted on June 3, 2011 2:06 pm | 0 comments
Agribiomediterraneo-IFOAM (ΑΒΜ), the Mediterranean Regional Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), announces a Conference on “Organic Agriculture and Agro-Eco Tourism in the Mediterranean“, in Zakynthos, Greece from 16 to 18, September 2011.
The aim of the IC is to improve scientific dialogues, implementation of information exchange, and...
Posted on March 24, 2011 11:07 am | 0 comments
The Food Quality and Health Association (FQH, The Netherlands), the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (ICT Prague, Czech Republic) and the Technology Platform Organics (TPOrganics) are organizing the 1st International Conference on Organic Food Quality and Health Research, 18 – 20 May, Prague, Czech Republic. The Conference Organizers are inviting researchers in the field of organic...
Posted on March 18, 2011 12:31 pm | 0 comments
The IFOAM EU Group released its newest publication on Organic Farming: “Organic Farming: The system approach to meet the sustainability challenge“
Climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, water pollution and increasing pressure on natural resources, such as soil nutrients and fossil fuels are amongst the most pressing challenges for society. Agriculture and food...