Irish Farmers Association

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the public consultation on the Right to Stay Strategy: Your Region, Your Future. The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is Irelands largest farming organisation. For rural Ireland, the right to stay means ensuring that farming families and rural communities can continue to live, work and build sustainable futures in the areas where they were born and raised.

Feedback to Commission Public Consultation New Genomic Technique (NGT) - information requirements and verification of category 1 status 28th September 2026 The Irish Farmers Association (IFA hereafter) welcome the introduction of a regulation framework 2026/1388 on plants obtained by new genomic techniques in the European Union and for the opportunity to respond to the EU Commission’s call for evidence on Category 1…

Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)

IFA welcomes the opportunity to input into the Roadmap to Nature Credits consultation to ensure that farmers perspectives inform the development of the market. The importance of the nature credit market to support nature restoration and climate resilience cannot be overemphasised.

The Irish Farmers Association rejects the planned introduction of the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle for agricultural interventions. The agricultural sector, already governed by the CAP Common Agricultural Policy should be totally excluded from the application of the DNSH. Unlike other sectors, agriculture is deeply intertwined with natural resources and ecosystems.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this important public consultation on the Mid-term Review of CAP 2023-2027. The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is Irelands largest farming organisation with approximately 77,000 members in 940 branches nationwide.