Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in Article 63(1), the following point (d) is added:

   1. ‘(d)

      the specific characteristics of the production method used, where the operator intends to request documentary evidence in accordance with Article 68(2).’;

2. (2)

   Article 68 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Article 68Documentary evidence

   1.

   For the purpose of the application of Article 29(1) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 the control authorities and control bodies shall use the model of the documentary evidence set out in Annex XII to this Regulation.

   2.

   If an operator subject to the controls of the control authorities and control bodies as referred to in paragraph 1 so requests within a time period to be indicated by those control authorities and control bodies, the control authorities and control bodies shall provide complementary documentary evidence confirming the specific characteristics of the production method used by means of the model set out in Annex XIIa.

   Applications for complementary documentary evidence shall contain in box 2 of the model set out in Annex XIIa the relevant entry listed in Annex XIIb.’;

3. (3)

   in the title of Annex XII, the reference to ‘Article 68’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 68(1)’;

4. (4)

   Annexes XIIa and XIIb are inserted as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Annexes III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 are amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply as from 1 June 2012.