Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 provides that the list of recognised third countries shall contain all the information necessary in respect of each third country to allow verifying whether products placed on the Union market have been subject to the control system of the third country recognised in accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007. Tunisia has transmitted an amendment to the relevant specifications provided in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 following the creation of a new general direction in charge of organic farming in the agricultural department, which has become the new competent authority responsible for the control system in Tunisia.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 590/2011 has inserted in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 a new text relating to Canada. Point 1 ‘Product categories’ of that text contains an error in so far it has established a separate point (c) for ‘feed’ as one of those categories, while indeed it constitutes one of the possible uses of ‘processed agricultural products’ referred to in point 1(b) of the said text.

Canada informed the Commission that the list of control bodies included in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 includes another error, as the control body ‘Control Union Certifications’ is not accredited by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to provide certification services in Canada.

Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 should therefore be amended and corrected accordingly.

For the sake of legal certainty, the correcting provision established in this Regulation should apply from the date of entry into force of Regulation (EU) No 590/2011.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the regulatory Committee on organic production,