The Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Organic Products Regulations 1992, as amended (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement of Council and Commission Regulations amending or supplementing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs. Those Regulations are listed in the revised definition of “the Council Regulation” and the new definition of “the Commission Regulations” (regulation 3(a)(i) and (ii)).

These Regulations—

(a) update the list of Specified Community provisions enforced by the principal Regulations (regulations 3(a)(iii) and 6 and Schedule);

(b) impose an additional labelling requirement in respect of organic products in pursuance of Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2092/91 (regulations 4 and 5);

(c) make a consequential amendment (regulation 3(b)).

The code numbers referred to in regulation 4 are contained in the UKROFS Standards for Organic Food Production, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Details of the code numbers are available, free of charge, from Conservation and Woodlands Policy Division, Branch C, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Room 322, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR (telephone [phone]; fax number 0171 238 6553).

No Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been prepared.