On World Food Day, the European Consortium of the Organic-Based Fertilizer Industry (ECOFI) urged EU negotiators to recall the primary objective of the draft fertilising products regulation: providing a Single Market for bio-based plant nutrition and soil fertility management products such as organic fertilisers and soil improvers and organo-mineral fertilisers.
Yet today, the draft regulation risks being abandoned – and with it, the development of a functioning Single Market for bio-based fertilising products – because of differences on issues related to mineral fertilizers, products that already have access to the Single Market.
Although ECOFI acknowledges that the draft regulation is not perfect, its membership is convinced that an imperfect regulation that can be revised is better than no regulation at all.
Read the statement in full here, or learn more about organic-based fertilizers here.