European Coordination Via Campesina

ECVC

Our priorities for a fair, sustainable and legitimate agriculture policy - We need a public policy, an European agriculture policy defined by the Europeans, not by the WTO. - Priority should be given to agricultural and rural employment. We say no farmer’s disappearance. - The rights of women farmers should be recognised. - Access to land, water, seeds, and credit should become a right: that includes farmers’ rights to save their seeds and to improve plant varieties. - the setting up of young farmers has to be promoted. - Farmers’ income should come first from selling their products. For farm prices reflecting the real value of the products, the two following conditions are necessarfy: o Supply management instruments should be implemented, to avoid surpluses or shortages. o Any dumping at export (at prices below the production costs) must be forbidden, and in exchange for this duty, the EU and other countries have the right to protect themselves from imports at t (...)

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Lobbying Activity

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2025 · MFF, CAP

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament) and

19 Nov 2025 · Event: "This Land Is Our Land: Generational Renewal and Access to Land in Europe"

Meeting with Pietro Fiocchi (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

16 Oct 2025 · NGTs

Meeting with Silvia Sardone (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

2 Oct 2025 · NGT

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Strategy for Generational Renewal in agriculture

14 Jul 2025

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Jul 2025 · Livestock

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and KWS SAAT SE Co. KGaA

25 Jun 2025 · Veranstaltung zu NGT und Patenten

Meeting with Brigitte Misonne (Acting Director Agriculture and Rural Development)

5 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food, in particular the livestock workstream with Confédération Paysanne, French member of European Coordination Via Campesina

Meeting with Claudia Olazabal (Head of Unit Environment)

5 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on issues linking agriculture and water and on the next Common Agriculture Policy

Meeting with Petr Lapka (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development)

5 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on the next amendment of the French CAP plan, and the most recent simplification package

Response to Communication on the EU Stockpiling Strategy

30 Apr 2025

Meeting with Fabien Santini (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development) and

26 Mar 2025 · UTP directive and CMO regulation

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

25 Mar 2025 · Roundtable “Water, Agriculture, and the Food Supply Chain”

Meeting with Maria Gafo Gomez-Zamalloa (Acting Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development)

14 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Vision for Agriculture and Food

Meeting with Christophe Hansen (Commissioner) and

27 Feb 2025 · Challenges faced by the agrifood sector in France and work of the Confédération Paysanne

Meeting with Mounir Satouri (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

19 Feb 2025 · Droits des paysans

Meeting with Carola Rackete (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Nov 2024 · Mercosur protests

Meeting with Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development)

13 Nov 2024 · exchange on the position of farmers in the food value chain, EU food sovereignty and food security, and the upcoming Vision for the Future of EU Food and Farming

Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Nov 2024 · Austausch neue Legislaturperiode

Meeting with Eric Sargiacomo (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Nov 2024 · Agriculture paysanne

Meeting with Peter Van Kemseke (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

24 Oct 2024 · future on agriculture

Meeting with Cristina Guarda (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Oct 2024 · Agricolture

Meeting with Benoit Cassart (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · Prise de contact

Meeting with Arash Saeidi (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · audition agriculture de demain

Meeting with Cristina Guarda (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Sept 2024 · Agriculture

Meeting with Carola Rackete (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jul 2024 · Food sovereignty, agricultural policy, possible intergroup

Meeting with Eric Sargiacomo (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Jul 2024 · Tous sujets AGRI

Meeting with Ursula von der Leyen (President) and International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group

26 Apr 2024 · Meeting with President IFOAM, Director IFOAM, Member of the Coordinating Committee ECVC, Policy Officers ECVC/ IFOAM

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

1 Feb 2024 · Raisons de la manifestation de la grève des agriculteurs du 1/2/2024

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Jan 2024 · Demo gegen NGT

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and

28 Nov 2023 · Filmvorstellung "Seeds of Europe"

Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament) and Groupe Limagrain

15 Nov 2023 · Semences

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)

7 Nov 2023 · Transition towards sustainable food systems

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

26 Oct 2023 · Table ronde avec les représentants de la société civile sur la proposition de règlement sur les nouveaux OGM

Meeting with Isabel Carvalhais (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

25 Oct 2023 · Production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union

Meeting with Maria Noichl (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

4 Oct 2023 · Soil health

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

28 Sept 2023 · Soil Health Law

Meeting with Jérémy Decerle (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Sept 2023 · Nouvelles techniques géomiques, législation sur la commercialisation des sémences, OGM

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Sept 2023 · Access to land, generational renewal and land regulation

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Sept 2023 · Semences et nouveaux OGMs

Meeting with Sarah Wiener (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

7 Jul 2023 · agricultural policy, Green Deal, SUR

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and

6 Jul 2023 · Teilnahme Veranstaltung zu Patenten und Neuer Gentechnik

Meeting with Anne Sander (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

5 Jul 2023 · Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action) and

27 Jun 2023 · Fit for 55

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and

27 Jun 2023 · New genomic techniques

Meeting with Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

27 Jun 2023 · New Genomic Techiniques.

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 Jun 2023 · Soil health

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals

23 Mar 2023

Meeting with Chris Macmanus (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

22 Mar 2023 · Generational Renewal on EU farms

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

7 Mar 2023 · - Agroecology, short supply chains, sustainable food systems - A land directive for the EU - Prices, markets, food sovereignty

Meeting with Maria Noichl (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Feb 2023 · upcoming sustainable food system law

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and ARCHE NOAH, Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt und ihre Entwicklung

8 Feb 2023 · Veranstaltung EU-Reform der Vermarktungsregeln für Saatgut: Welches Saatgut für einen gerechten Übergang zu agrarökologischen und nachhaltigen Lebensmittelsystemen?

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei

7 Feb 2023 · Konferenz "Carbon Farming - Neues Potenzial für Landwirte oder Greenwashing?"

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament) and

7 Feb 2023 · Übergabe der Petition “Keep New GMOs regulated and labelled!”

Meeting with Annukka Ojala (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

16 Dec 2022 · VTC Meeting: Sustainable Food Systems/Procurement

Meeting with Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and European Milk Board

27 Oct 2022 · Exchange of views on food security

Meeting with Isabel Carvalhais (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

13 Oct 2022 · Land concentration, access to land, land regulation

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

19 Sept 2022

Meeting with Pascal Durand (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Jun 2022 · New genomic techniques potential deregulation and consequences for farmers

Response to Legislative proposal for an EU Framework for Forest Monitoring and Strategic Plans

6 May 2022

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

3 May 2022 · New genomic techniques

Meeting with Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

3 May 2022 · New Genomic Techinques

Response to A European Union Regulatory Framework for the Certification of Carbon Removals

2 May 2022

Meeting with Benoît Biteau (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Mar 2022 · Carbon farming

Response to Report assessing the rationale and legal feasibility of applying EU health and environmental standards (including animal welfare standards as well as processes and production methods) to imported agricultural and agri-food products as well as identifying the concrete initiatives to ensure better consistency in their application, in conformity with WTO rules

16 Mar 2022

Response to Proposal for a Directive on protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils - Soil Health Law

16 Mar 2022

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

10 Dec 2021 · Carbon farming

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an EU framework for a Union sustainable food system

26 Oct 2021

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and

18 Oct 2021 · Presentation of their assessment of the working paper on new genomic techniques +next steps

Response to Restoring a Sustainable Carbon Cycle Communication on the Carbon Removal Certification Initiative and the Carbon Farming Initiative

7 Oct 2021

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

13 Jul 2021 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Annukka Ojala (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

13 Jul 2021 · VTC meeting - Farm to Fork Strategy

Response to Proposal for Directives (or Regulations) of the European Parliament and of the Council amending/repealing Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 1998/56/EC, 1999/105/EC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC, 2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90/EC

12 Jul 2021

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

8 Jul 2021 · CAP reform

Meeting with Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

11 May 2021 · VTC Meeting - New Genomic Techniques and Gene drives

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

28 Apr 2021 · CAP reform

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

20 Jan 2021 · Discussion on minimum sustainability criteria for public procurement

Meeting with Annukka Ojala (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

20 Jan 2021 · VC Meeting - Discussion on minimum sustainability criteria for public procurement.

Meeting with Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner) and

15 Jan 2021 · VC Meeting - Farm to Fork Strategy and GMOs

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the production and marketing of plant reproductive material of organic heterogeneous material of particular genera or species

27 Nov 2020

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a long term vision for rural areas

3 Sept 2020

Meeting with Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner) and

5 Jun 2020 · VC Meeting - Farm to Fork

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Farm to Fork Strategy for a Sustainable Food System

25 Feb 2020

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and

20 Feb 2020 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Catherine Geslain-Laneelle (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

30 Jan 2020 · CAP, Farm to Fork

Meeting with Elisabetta Siracusa (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

8 Feb 2019 · Cap reform and transitional measures

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

27 Mar 2018 · agri matters

Response to Commission initiative to improve the governance of the food supply chain with regard to unfair trading practices, one rule regarding producer cooperation and market transparency

11 Aug 2017

Response to Commission Interpretative Communication on Foreign Investment in Farmland and European Union law

6 Jul 2017

Meeting with Elisabetta Siracusa (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

30 May 2017 · • process of Modernising and Simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

28 Sept 2015 · New breeding techniques, GMO

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

8 Sept 2015 · Business discussion

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

8 Sept 2015 · Milk policy

Meeting with Peter Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan) and ActionAid

30 Jun 2015 · Rural policy issues in Europe and Africa (discussion Action Aid and Via Campesina)

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

30 Jan 2015 · The Food Chain, Innovation and Challenges, Food Information to Consumers, Nutrition, and Food Waste, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Plant Health

Meeting with Elisabetta Siracusa (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

16 Dec 2014 · State of Play of CAP, including productions like Milk, State of Play of TTIP and other FTAs, Food Quality, Food chains and short circuits, Policies for family farms