The Idea for forming the Balkan Organic Network (BON) was born in January 2011 during the “People 2 People study tour on organic agriculture” in Brussels, organised and supported by TACSO/ DG Enlargement. The CSOs interested in creating BON with support from TACSO organised a meeting in July 2011 in Novi Travnik. The idea was presented and elaborated in front of 11 CSOs from seven Balkan countries, and the decision to form the network was taken. The BON founding meeting was organised on September 1 2011 in Skopje. BON was established in order to support closer cooperation between the representing organic production CSOs and the national as well as international competent authorities on the regional level and to enable regional cooperation of CSOs active in organic production.