“EU organic farming, the new standards enter into force” by Massimo Agostini.

<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #242816; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>An article of Agrisole,&nbsp;an important &nbsp;weekly magazine on agriculture,&nbsp;&nbsp;recalls that from July 1st the new EU logo for organic farming and the new rules for organic aquaculture enter into force. This means that the new Reg. (CE) 834/2007 has now become fully applied, so that the national standards, sometimes creating commercial overlapping or gaps, will not be applied anymore. In this frame, a specific seminar promoted by the “InterBio” project (coordinated by&nbsp;MAIB-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, and financed by MiPAAF)&nbsp;and IFOAM EU was recently held in Rome, to discuss about the new situations created by <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>the&nbsp;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>EU Regulation, and&nbsp;the new import, inspection and certification regimes. Christopher Stopes, IFOAM EU president, indicated that&nbsp;“a strong legislation, based on clear standards, is the platform on which consumers can rely to buy organic food, knowing to take part to an alternative solution to the always harder forthcoming challenges”. Also Paolo De Castro, former Italian Ministry of Agriculture and president of the European Parliament Agriculture Commission,&nbsp; who as well took part&nbsp;to the important seminar, stated that “organic farming <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>should become the first way to produce food in Europe”. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #242816; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #242816; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">“Agrisole”, 2-8 July <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>2010, nr. 27, page 11.</SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #242816; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>