Position papers

ECO‐PB & LiveSeeding Definition on Organic Breeding and Organic Varieties (ECO-PB & LiveSeeding | Position paper | 2025)

Statement of the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) on the revised presidency text of the Polish Presidency published 7th Jan 2025 for the EU regulation on plants obtained by certain New Genomic Techniques (NGT) and their food and feed, and amending EC draft Regulation (EU) 2017/625 from the 5th July 2023 (ECO-PB | Position paper | 2025)

EU reform on seed marketing regulation from the perspective of organic breeders (ECO-PB & LiveSeeding | Policy brief | 2024)

Statement of the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) on the Commission’s proposal for the EU regulation on plants obtained by certain New Genomic Techniques (NGT) and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 from the 5th July 2023(ECO-PB | Position paper | 2023)

Public consultation: Organic crops – boosting resilience through a genetically diverse planting mix (Monika Messmer, ECO-PB | Feedback on delegated act of OHM | 2020)

Compatibility of breeding techniques in organic systems (IFOAM Organics International | Position paper | 2017)

Re: High number of patent applications for plants and animals (Eduardo Cuoco, IFOAM EU; Monika Messmer, ECO-PB; Pekka Pesonen, Copa-Cogeca; Christoph Then, No patents on seeds! | Policy letter | 2017)

Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms (IFOAM Organics International | Position paper | 2016)

Motion 51 on Cell Fusion& Motion 52 on New Breeding Techniques (ECO-PB | IFOAM General Assembly | 2014)

Parliament must stand up for S&PRM law that favours diversity (Marco Schlüter | IFOAM EU | Policy letter | 2013)

Don’t tow corporate line on seed: MEPs must protect public good - Seed is too important to leave it to vested interests (IFOAM EU | Press release | 2013)

Main recommendations from ECO-PB for the revision process of the organic regulation (834/2007) based on the results of the 7th European Workshop on Organic Seed Regulation on the 9th and 10th of October 2013 in Brussels (ECO-PB | 2013)

Towards more crop diversity - adapting market rules for future food security, biodiversity and food culture (IFOAM EU | Position paper on the Revision of the Community Legislation on the Marketing of Seed and Plant Propagating Material | 2013)

Proposals to build more biodiversity within and between varieties for strengthening adaptability to climate change and to meet consumer demands (ECO PB | Position paper of organic breeders in Europe concerning the EU seed law revision process | 2012)

Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB | Position paper | 2012 | English, Français)

Use of organic seed and plant propagation material in Organic Agriculture (IFOAM Organics International | Position paper | 2011)

Proposed EU regulatory framework (ECO-PB | 2009)

Declaration with respect to a proposal for a strategy on how to deal with varieties made by cell fusion techniques in organic farming (ECO-PB | 2009)

Protoplast fusion and organic farming (Maaike Raaijmakers | Biologica | 2004)

The reasons for rejecting genetic engineering by the organic movement (Henk Verhoog | Louis Bolk Institute | 2003)

In addition to Directive 98/95/EC - conservation varieties: some points of interest from an Organic Farming point of view (Edith Lammerts van Bueren and Karl-Josef Müller | ECO-PB | 2002)

Ecological cereal breeding and genetic engineering (Christine Karutz | FiBL | Working paper | 1999 | English, Deutsch)