Please find attached the statement of Fairtrade Deutschland to the call for evidence for the review of the EU public procurement rules. Fairtrade is one of the best-known sustainability labels in the world and aims to create fairer conditions for those people who grow our food and other raw materials in countries of the Global South.
FDV
Fairtrade Deutschland e.V.
NGO · Germany · EU Transparency Register 395609641332-50
5
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
5
legislative files
of 665 tracked
1
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
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Who they are
Among the 1106 non-governmental organisations on this site, they rank #277 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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EP accreditations
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2021
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Fairtrade International →
- VENRO
- Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft
- Forum Nachhaltiger Kakao
- Klima Allianz Deutschland →
- Initiative Lieferkettengesetz
- Bündnis für nachhaltige Textilien
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Non-governmental organisations
- Head office
- Cologne, Germany
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Fairtrade Deutschland e.V. filed 5 positions between 10 Mar 2025 and 24 Feb 2026, across 5 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 1 time.
2025 · 3 filed2026 · 2 filed
What they argued
Fairtrade Deutschland welcomes the Commissions initiative to simplify the EU Organic Regulation and related acts to ease implementation for organic producers. The current regulation creates barriers to trade without improving the content or credibility of the EU organic certification, through increasing costs for certification, complicating market access for smallholder cooperatives supplying the EU with tropical…
Fairtrade Deutschland e.V. welcomes the European Commissions initiative to strengthen farmers positions in the agri-food supply chain. Some key aspects of the proposed regulation have to be revised in order to prevent misuse through insufficient definitions of fair and equitable.
Fairtrade Deutschland welcomes the review of the Directive on unfair trading practices in the agricultural and food supply chain as an opportunity to strengthen an instrument that has already demonstrated its relevance in mitigating the negative effects of power imbalances, but whose potential has not yet been fully realised.
As part of the Omnibus initiative to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), we call on the European Commission to extend it to the EU Organic Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2018/848), which severely negatively affects small farmers in third countries supplying organic products to the EU.
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