Policy Files (List) | growingmediaeurope

Our work in Europe

Growing Media Europe represents the producers of growing media and soil improvers in Brussels. We follow the EU files that decide how growing media are made, labelled and sold, and we bring the sector's science and data to the people writing those rules.

Our priority is the Fertilising Products Regulation, which our Board placed above all other files in March 2026. We also work on climate, nature and bioeconomy files where peat, peatlands and other growing media constituents are discussed.

The files we work on:

Fertilising Products Regulation

Bringing growing media under one EU framework.

Bioeconomy Strategy

Recognising growing media as part of the EU bioeconomy.

Carbon Removals Certification Framework CRCF

Making voluntary peatland rewetting certifiable, and judging climate outcomes rather than peat content.

LULUCF Regulation

Fixing how emissions from horticultural peat are counted.

Nature Restoration Law

Keeping extraction sites and agricultural peatlands distinct in national plans.

EU Taxonomy

Asking for evidence on all growing media materials before any categorical restriction.

EU Deforestation Regulation

Following how due diligence rules apply to coir and wood-based constituents.

Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products

Making sure the organic review covers the growing media organic horticulture relies on.