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The EU Commission has published two reports on organic farming and imports of organic products in the EU. The documents show that, between 2010 and 2017, there was a sharp increase in the agricultural area dedicated to organic farming, and the role of the import of organic products also increased considerably.

Eurostat, the European Statistics Agency, has published data related to organic farming in Eastern European countries: very particular the situation of Bulgaria and Croatia , which have seen the highest rate of expansion in their organic farming sectors in relation to the whole of the EU 28 nations in recent years.

Following the BioSuisse annual report, Swiss and Liechtenstein organic farming continues to grow, with the record of 6,538 active operators. As a result, 6,144 producers now act according to the “Gemma” guidelines of Bio Suisse (“Gemma” is the BioSuisse private standard). These farms cultivate some 140,000 hectares of land, that is 13.4% of the total agricultural area.

Agence Bio presented in Paris the 2015 report of the French organic sector. The French market registered record figures, with for example the birth of more than 200 organic farms a month. Cultivated surfaces, production volumes, in-conversion farms, consumption. In 2015, the French market for organic food products reached 5.76 billion euro, an increase of 14.7% compared to 2014:  in Europe, it was the market with the highest growth trend. And the threshold of 5% of organic UAA was trespassed.