RFPs: Promoting Organic Products under Union Quality Scheme or Union Sustainable Agriculture and Animal Welfare

Deadline: 23-Apr-25

The European Commission is seeking applications to promote Organic products under Union quality scheme OR Union sustainable agriculture and animal welfare in any third country/ies.

Objectives 

• For Information provision and promotion programmes concerning the organic products under Union quality scheme the objective is to increase the awareness and recognition of the Union quality scheme on organic production.
  • Information and promotion programmes on the Union quality scheme on organic production method should be a key priority since this scheme provides consumers with assurances on the sustainability, quality and characteristics of the product and the production process used and the environmental and climate benefits they generate, achieve added value for the products concerned and enhance their market opportunities.
• The expected ultimate impact is to increase awareness of the Union quality scheme on organic production and to enhance the competitiveness and consumption of organic products, raise their profile and increase their market share.
  • For Information provision and promotion programmes aiming at increasing the awareness of Union sustainable agriculture and animal welfare in any third country/ies the objective is to highlight the sustainability of Union agriculture, stressing its beneficial role for the climate, the environment and animal welfare.

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 87 000 000.
• Amount: EUR 5 000 000
• Projects should have a minimum duration of 12 and a maximum duration of 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be established in an EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• be eligible organisations or bodies as referred to in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014:
  • trade or inter-trade organisations, established in a Member State and representative of the sector or sectors concerned in that Member State, and in particular the interbranch organisations as referred to in Article 157 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and groups as defined in point 2 of paragraph 1 of Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, provided that they are representative for the name protected under the latter Regulation which is covered by that programme
  • producer organisations or associations of producer organisations, as referred to in Articles 152 and 156 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 that have been recognised by a Member State or
  • agri-food sector bodies the objective and activity of which is to provide information on, and to promote agricultural products and which have been entrusted, by the Member State concerned, with a clearly defined public service mission in this area; those bodies must have been legally established in the Member State in question at least two years prior to the date of the call for proposals referred to in Article 8(2).

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