Members of the AöL work for organic, valuable and sustainable food.
Read our Guiding principles in GermanOur messages
Food is a basic necessity of life and the quality aspiration of our industry is to create and produce foods that give us life. They can reconnect people to their world and bring them into harmony with their world. This includes protecting the environment and avoiding social harm. Our understanding of food involves much more than just guaranteeing the absence of harmful substances or other risks. The authorities see it differently, and in politics and the media too, the aspect of safety often dominates when it comes to food.
Revision Process 2017: Information about Article XX/20 about obligations and actions
Due to several reports there is a lot of uncertainty concerning article XX and 20 of the new organic regulation. Therefore we hereby offer some first technical information about the article, although the final legal text has not yet been decided on. The final legal
consistency check is still missing.
The existing organic regulation (art.91 of 889/2008) states the following regulations on the handling of suspected cases of non-compliances...
Statement from the AöL about baby food
Concerning the legally compliant interpretation of Art. 27 (1) f) of Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 in light of the decision by the ECJ (case C-137/13) and the Commission’s letter dated 29.11.2016
Since the coming into force of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 of 24 June 1991 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs on 01.01.1993 (24 years ago), baby food of organic quality has been produced and sold Europe-wide and has become an important market sector in the European and non-European food trade.
AöL and Bionext, two leading organizations in the organic sector of the EU, take their responsibility and will expand their cooperation to develop and strengthen the risk based management systems for organic processing and trading companies. To realise their mutual aim they will take the following actions: Strenghten their cooperation in the further development and implementation of the Biotrust risk based management tool; Exchange knowledge and experiences about risk based management systems...
Our "Themenhefte"
Our Themenhefte are some kind of dossiers from our association. The members are writing about their visions of food processing, about responsibility and a different kind of economy.
Because of that, the Themenheft is an important contribution to the discussions about the future of organic. You can read it here in German.
