Event with high-ranking representatives from Ukraine, the EU and Switzerland on February 12, 2025 at Biofach in Nuremberg
Despite the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that started 3 years ago, Ukrainian organic operators manage to grow high-quality organic products and to market them successfully both at home and abroad.
About 500 operators in Ukraine are certified according to the EU Organic Regulation. Since August 2023, more than 260 organic operators have also been certified according to the Ukrainian organic legislation.
At Biofach, 24 Ukrainian organic exporters will be offering their product range within the National Pavilion of Ukraine. A great success!
More information about participants and preparation to Biofach 2025.
The Biofach Congress now offers the additional opportunity to get a compact impression of the performance of Ukrainian organic companies and current status of organic policy in Ukraine in 75 minutes. Under the title “Ukraine’s Organic Sector in the EU Integration Process – Challenges, Opportunities, and Post-War Resilience”, several representatives of trade and authorities from Ukraine, the EU and Switzerland will provide information on the current situation in Ukraine, trade and legislative framework.
These include Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, who will give a welcome note at the beginning of the event, Jan Plagge, President of IFOAM Organics Europe, Marianna Paolino, Team Leader International at DG AGRI B4 Organics of the EU Commission, and Olga Trofimtseva, an agrarian specialist from Ukraine.
In addition, various representatives of Ukrainian organic companies and organic organizations, including Sergiy Galashevskyy, General Manager of Organic Standard certification body, and a representative of a trading company from Germany that imports organic products from Ukraine, will appear on two panels.
Simultaneous translation from English to Ukrainian will be provided.
The event is organized by
- German-Ukrainian Сooperation in Organic Agriculture project (COA) with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany (BMEL) and
- Swiss-Ukrainian Programme “Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine” (QFTP) implemented with the support of Switzerland by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) in partnership with SAFOSO AG (Switzerland)
Contact:
German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Organic Farming Project (COA), Dr Stefan Dreesmann, Tel: 00 49 152 539 77 131; Stefan.Dreesmann@gopa-afc.de, www.coa-ukraine.com/en
Swiss-Ukrainian Programme “Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine” (QFTP), Tobias Eisenring, tobias.eisenring@fibl.org, www.qftp.org/en