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The Commission welcomes ECOFI’s participation in the Fertilisers Working Group

May 27, 2014 by Sarah Cayrafourcq

DG Enterprise-newThe European Consortium of the Organic-Based Fertilizer Industry (ECOFI) participated in a meeting of the European Commission’s Fertilisers Working Group (FWG), which took place in Brussels on 17 March 2014. Representatives of DG Enterprise welcomed the steps taken by the organic-based fertilizers industry to organize its engagement with the European institutions in the form of a representative consortium. Chiara Manoli, ECOFI’s elected representative to the FWG, formally presented ECOFI to those present and received clarification on a number of issues related to the revision of the Fertilisers Regulation, such as the role of economic operators and the essential safety and quality requirements for the different product categories.