ORGAP (European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming).

In June 2004 the European Commission published the European Action Plan
for Organic Food and Farming. The plan set out a range of policy
measure to support the development of the organic sector in order to
meet consumer demands in a market-oriented way and to deliver public
goods such as environmental protection and animal welfare. The measures
included revision of the regulation defining organic food, support for
organic farming through the rural development programme and a consumer
promotion campaign.
The EC-funded research project ORGAP, which ran from 2005-2008 and is
now completed, was developed to provide scientific support for the
implementation of the European Action Plan and the evaluation of its
long-term and short-term effects. This included:
the development of an evaluation toolbox (hyperlink to ORGAPET) to help
evaluate and monitor the implementation of the European and national
organic action plans the involvement of stakeholders in identifying key
objectives and indicators, as well as potential problems implementing
the EU action plan in member states and other failure risks developing
a manual for stakeholders as an introduction to action plan
development, implementation and evaluation.
All the information can be found at www.orgap.org
<br><i>Source of information:</i> European Union