The Commission proposed a new architecture for the next EU budget, the so-called multi-annual financial framework (MFF) that will cover the period 2027-2035. This merging of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) with other EU funds will allow more flexibility for national governments on how they use EU money, and will trigger great uncertainties.
As EU institutions will be negotiating in 2026, IFOAM OE will strive to ensure that this new budget architecture will also create new opportunities for the development of the organic sector, through the CAP but also through structural or regional funds that will be merged into National and Regional Partnership Plans and through other funds such as the European Competitiveness Fund, Horizon Europe or Erasmus.
IFOAM OE goal is to ensure that these EU funds will reward organic farmers for their role in protecting ecosystems services, but also contribute to the further development of the sector through investments, structuration of organic supply chains, the development of the organic market, territorial approaches, biodistricts, promotion policies, research and innovation and advancing the skills agenda for the whole organic sector for the next seven years.
There are many other topics that IFOAM OE will tackle in 2026: biocontrol and pesticides, seeds and PRM, the revision of the Directive on Public Procurement, climate risk and resilience, nature credits, animal welfare, further development of the Organics Europe Youth Network.
There will also be another mobilisation on novel genomic techniques (NGTs) ahead of the last plenary vote in the European Parliament in Spring 2026. This will include a targeted communication to support members in explaining to consumers the commitment of organic operators to produce food without NGTs.
The organic movement will remain mobilised to protect our breeders and farmers from patents and corporate control, as seeds are the basis of our European food sovereignty.
Source: IFOAM OE
