European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding

The European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) was founded in 2001 with the aim of promoting organic plant breeding and building up an independent expertise. As a non-profit association the main purpose is to foster organic agriculture, protect the environment and conserve agrobiodiversity through plant breeding programmes designed specifically for the needs of organic farming systems
main focus areas of the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) include:(i)Initiating, supporting and maintaining organic plant breeding program; (ii)Developing and investigating the concepts, scientific basis and financial tools for organic plant breeding; (iii)Developing and promoting appropriate standards, practice and legal frameworks for organic plant breeding; (iv)Providing a platform for exchange of knowledge and experience on organic plant breeding to European breeders, farmers, researchers and policy makers, as well as other IFOAM organizations; (v) Carrying o (...)

- EU Organic regulation with respect to seed (Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products);
- Supporting DG Sante and CPVO, IFOAM EU working groups on delegated acts for EU 2018/848 on heterogeneous material, organic seed and animal data base, derogation rules;
- Supporting DC Sante and CPVO, IFOAM EU working groups on implementing acts for forseen temporary experiment on organic varieties suited for organic agriculture (See preface of EU 2018/848)
- implementing and monitoring temporary experiment on marketing of heterogeneous population (Council Directive 66/402/EEC; notified under document C(2014) 1681; 2014/150/EU); Request for prolongation of the temporary experiment set up by Commission implementing Decision 2014/150/EU providing for certain derogations for the marketing of populations of plant species pursuant to Council Directive 66/402/EEC;
- harmonizing the implementation of organic Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products with respect to national organic database, working groups for National annex I, II and III for derogations of conventional untreated seed;
- REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on the marketing and production, with a view to marketing, of plant reproductive
material, and repealing Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EC,
1998/56/EC, 1999/105/EC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC,
2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90;
- Replacement of present seed directives by a unified European Seed law on EU Plant Reproductive Material Law (which was attempted in 2013) and unfortunately withdrawn;
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP);
- EU Biodiversity Strategy;
- EU Research Agenda (Horizon Europe);
- GMO Legislation (Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment, Regulation (EC) 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed, Directive (EU) 2015/412 amending Directive 2001/18/EC as regards the possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory,
Regulation (EC) 1830/2003 concerning the traceabilityand labelling of genetically modified organisms and the traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms Directive 2009/41/EC; Court case C-528/16);
-change Directive 98/44/EC to render legally binding the exclusion of plants, animals, genes and genetic traits that can be found in nature or obtained through conventional breeding, from patentability.

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