The 1^st Italian legislative and technological workshop was organized on January 26^th 2016, in Rome with participants from a number of organisations such as MATTM, ISPRA, FREE, Itabia, Legambiente, ENEA, ANEV, AzzeroCO2, GBC Italia, CIB, IP Srl and Kyoto Club. During the workshop, the 129^th meeting of the Committee on Organic Production and the EU Regulation 2015/2345 were presented and discussed. All participants evaluated positively the new regulation, arguing that it improves quality guarantee for non-EU imported organic products and indirectly steers for greater quality sensitivity also in the EU organic market. Regarding technological updates, the 17 November 2015 European EGTOP final report on wine was discussed and the relevance it may have for both Italian and Cypriot organic wine production was underlined. Moreover, Marco Pezzaglia presented the new technology patented by his company, called Biogasdoneright, that deals with anaerobic digestion and soil carbon sequestration and he elaborated on possible organic farming uses.