Objective In the last decades organic agriculture has undergone significant growth and development, and now exhibits organic industries and international trade. There is a large number of different standards, labels and certification bodies, and this is confusing for consumers, traders and the organic farming industry. The EEC reg. 2092/91 may be of high importance for the credibility and harmonisation of organic standards in Europe.The overall objective of this project is to provide recommendations for development of the EU regulation for organic agriculture and for the envisaged European action plan for organic food and farming. Basic ethical values and value differences in organic agriculture will be identified and a procedure for balancing and integrating these values in revisions of the EEC 2092/91 will be developed (WP2). An organic standards database that enables comparison of national and international standards with the EEC 2092/91 will be established, and the exposed differences will be analysed (WP3). These outcomes should help identify trade barriers, provide a better understanding of the ongoing development of organic agriculture and how it can be regulated, enable régionalisation of the organic production and support harmonisation as well as simplification of the EU regulation. The project will also provide specific recommendations on the derogations of the use of conventional feed (WP4) and seed (WP5) in the EU regulation. The availability of organic seeds and propagation materials will be surveyed and information exchange and decision criteria for the seed regime will be developed. The supply and demand of organic feeds and feed additives will be surveyed and evaluation criteria for specific feed and feed additives will be developed. Implementation of the results will be by means of a web-page and workshops in collobaration with the Commission (WP6). Fields of science agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculturenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsagricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandrysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Keywords 91 EEC 2092 feed organic agriculture organic standards seed Programme(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) POLICIES-1.2 - Tools and assessment methods for sustainable agriculture and forestry management Call for proposal FP6-2002-SSP-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS EU contribution No data Address Nordre Ringgade 1 AARHUS C Denmark See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Ackerstrasse FRICK See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES ABERYSTWYTH United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address King Street, Old College ABERYSTWYTH See on map Total cost No data ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER L'AGRICOLTURA BIOLOGICA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Piave, 14 ROMA See on map Total cost No data INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL MOVEMENTS Sweden EU contribution No data Address Sagargatan, 10 A UPPSALA See on map Total cost No data LOUIS BOLK INSTITUUT Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Hoofdstraat 24 DRIEBERGEN See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET KASSEL Germany EU contribution No data Address Moenchebergstrasse 19 KASSEL See on map Total cost No data BUNDESANSTALT FUER ALPENLAENDISCHE LANDWIRSCHAFT Austria EU contribution No data Address Austrasse, 10 WELLS See on map Total cost No data LUNDS UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address Paradisgatan 5c Box 117 LUND See on map Total cost No data
