Bio Austria

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BIO AUSTRIA - Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture
(Bio Austria)
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purpose Promotion of organic farming
Chair: Gertraud Grabmann (chairwoman), Susanne Maier (managing director)
Establishment date: 2005 ( Organic Harvest Austria, Arge Biolandbau, Austrian interest group for organic farming, etc.)
Number of members: 13,500
Seat : Linz , Vienna 4
Website: www.bio-austria.at

BIO AUSTRIA - Association for the Promotion of Organic Farming is an organization of Austrian organic farmers .

Organization and club goals

The association has around 13,500 members and 360 cooperation companies. Around 100 employees work at state or federal level, 14 members make up the board. There are office locations in Vienna and Linz. Bio Austria represents around 60% of Austria's 21,000 organic farmers with a total turnover of around € 300 million, making it one of the largest organic associations in the EU.

As part of their association, the organic farmers have committed themselves to five values ​​with regard to their products: ecology , dignity of animals , research and innovation, fair prices and “organic food culture”. According to Bio Austria, the goal is the sustainable development of organic agriculture and the securing of sales markets for organic food . It also carries out relevant public relations and lobbying work .

The association defines its own guidelines that go beyond the requirements of the European Union. Products that meet these guidelines can be labeled with the organic seal of the association, the Bio Austria logo .

history

Bio Austria was created in January 2005 (Bio Enquete 2002) from the Bio HARVEST Austria federal association and the two previous umbrella associations Arge Biolandbau and ÖIG Austrian interest group for organic farming . The associations have now joined:

as well as the 5000 Codex farmers (unorganized organic farmers on a voluntary basis ). In 1994, those associations that focused on organic farming split off from ARGE-Biolandbau .

Publications

  • BIO AUSTRIA - The trade journal for agriculture and ecology . bi-monthly Edition. Linz ( archive - access perm.).

Others

  • It is not to be confused with Austria Bio , which also issues seals of approval.
  • In Germany there is an “Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture” of the same name in Witzenhausen .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Pohl: Austria-wide poster campaign. In: cash.at. May 16, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Status: 2009, relatively constant for about ten years
  3. ^ Organic associations in Austria. In: LANDnet> Bioland Austria> Organic associations. Ministry of Life II / 8, December 12, 2006, accessed November 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ orbi-bauernladen.at ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ORBI - Funding Association for Healthy Farming @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orbi-bauernladen.at
  5. ↑ Biolandwirtschaft Ennstal
  6. ↑ a b Bernhard Freyer u. a .: Organic farming in Austria - developments and prospects . In: Agriculture . tape 50 , no. 7 , 2001.
  7. ↑ FREILAND Association for ecological animal welfare and healthy nutrition
  8. ↑ FREILAND history , Freiland.or.at
  9. ↑ Earth & Saat ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erde-saat.at
  10. ↑ Organic farmers are forming up and want more of a say. Press release. APA May 5, 2005; archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 31, 2009 .
  11. ↑ APA / OTS (ed.): Starting shot for Bio Austria with overwhelming approval! Press release. January 25, 2005 ( OTS0236 January 25, 2005/22:54 [accessed July 31, 2009]).
  12. ↑ Organic associations / clubs in Austria. In: Environmental issues → Agriculture → Organic farming → Organic associations. Federal Environment Agency , accessed on July 31, 2009 .
  13. ↑ Peter Gluchi: Everyone is talking about nature. Organic products are booming in Austria - An overview of production, sales and marketing. In: EXTRA Lexicon. Wiener Zeitung, September 3, 1999, archived from the original on November 10, 2005 ; Retrieved July 31, 2009 .
  14. ↑ Austria Bio Garantie on the VKI website accessed on February 15, 2013