For the purpose of this Regulation:
‘labelling’ shall mean any words, particulars, trade marks, brand names, pictorial matter or symbols on any packaging, document, notice, label, board or collar accompanying or referring to a product specified in Article 1;
[F1‘ production ’ shall mean the operations on the agricultural holding involved in producing, packaging and initially labelling as products of organic production agricultural products produced on that holding;]
[F2‘ preparation ’ shall mean the operations of preserving and/or processing of agricultural products (including slaughter and cutting for livestock products), and also packaging and/or alterations made to the labelling concerning the presentation of the organic production method of the fresh, preserved and/or processed products;]
‘marketing’ shall mean holding or displaying for sale, offering for sale, selling, delivering or placing on the market in any other form;
‘operator’ shall mean any natural or legal person who produces, prepares or imports from a third country, with a view to the subsequent marketing thereof, products as referred to in Article 1, or who markets such products;
[F1‘ ingredients ’ shall mean the substances, including additives, used in the preparation of the products specified in Article 1 (1) (b), as defined in Article 6 (4) of Directive 79/112/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs for sale to the ultimate consumer;]
‘plant protection products’ shall mean products as defined in Article 2 (1) of Council Directive 79/117/EEC of 21 December 1978 prohibiting the placing on the market and use of plant protection products containing certain active substances(1), as last amended by Directive 89/365/EEC(2);
‘detergents’ shall mean substances and preparations, within the meaning of Council Directive 73/404/EEC of 22 November 1973 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to detergents(3), as last amended by Directive 86/94/EEC(4), which are intended to be used for cleaning certain products as referred to in Article 1 (1) (a).
[F3‘ prepackaged foodstuff ’ shall mean any single item as defined in Article 1 (3) (b) of Directive 79/112/EEC;
‘list of ingredients’ shall mean the list of ingredients referred to in Article 6 of Directive 79/112/EEC [F2;] ]
[F4‘ livestock production ’ shall mean the production of domestic or domesticated terrestrial animals (including insects) and aquatic species farmed in fresh, salt or brackish water. The products of hunting and fishing of wild animals shall not be considered as organic production;
‘genetically modified organism (GMO)’ shall mean any organism as defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 90/220/EEC of 23 April 1990 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (5) ;
‘ GMO derivative ’ shall mean any substance which is either produced from or produced by GMOs, but does not contain them;
‘use of GMOs and GMO derivatives’ shall mean use thereof as foodstuffs, food ingredients (including additives and flavourings), processing aids (including extraction solvents), feedingstuffs, compound feedingstuffs, feed materials, feed additives, processing aids for feedingstuffs, certain products used in animal nutrition (under Directive 82/471/EEC) (6) , plant protection products, veterinary medicinal products, fertilisers, soil conditioners, seeds, vegetative reproductive material and livestock;
‘veterinary medicinal products’ shall mean products as defined in Article 1(2) of Council Directive 65/65/EEC of 26 January 1965 on the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to medicinal products (7) ;
‘homeopathic veterinary medicinal products’ shall mean products as defined in Article 1(1) of Council Directive 92/74/EEC of 22 September 1992 , widening the scope of Directive 81/851/EEC on the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to veterinary medicinal products and laying down additional provisions on homeopathic veterinary medicinal products (8) ;
‘feedingstuffs’ shall mean products as defined in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the marketing of compound feedingstuffs (9) ;
‘feed materials’ shall mean products as defined in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing Directive 77/101/EEC (10) ;
‘ compound feedingstuffs ’ shall mean products as defined in Article 2(b) of Directive 79/373/EEC;
‘feed additives’ shall mean products as defined in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (11) ;
‘ certain products used in animal nutrition ’ shall mean nutritional products within the scope of Council Directive 82/471/EEC of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition;
‘ organic-production unit/holding/stockfarm ’ shall mean a unit, holding or stockfarm complying with the rules of this Regulation;
‘ organically-produced feedingstuffs/feed materials ’ shall mean feedingstuffs/feed materials produced in accordance with the rules of production laid down in Article 6;
‘ in-conversion feedingstuffs/feed materials ’ shall mean feedingstuffs/feed materials complying with the rules of production laid down in Article 6, except for the conversion period where those rules apply for at least one year before the harvest;
‘ conventional feedingstuffs/feed materials ’ shall mean feedingstuffs/feed materials not covered by the categories mentioned in paragraphs 23 and 24.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 1935/95 of 22 June 1995 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs.
F2 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 1804/1999 of 19 July 1999 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs to include livestock production.
[F4 OJ L 117, 8.5.1990, p. 15 . Directive as last amended by Directive 97/35/EC ( OJ L 169, 27.6.1997, p. 72 ).
OJ L 213, 21.7.1982, p. 8 . Directive as last amended by Directive 1999/20/EC ( OJ L 80, 25.3.1999, p. 20 ).
OJ 22, 9.2.1965, p. 369 . Directive as last amended by Directive 93/39/EEC ( OJ L 214, 24.8.1993, p. 22 ).
OJ L 86, 6.4.1979, p. 30 . Directive as last amended by Directive 98/87/EC ( OJ L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 43 ).
OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 35 . Directive as amended by Directive 98/67/EC ( OJ L 261, 24.9.1998, p. 10 ).
OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1 . Directive as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 45/1999 ( OJ L 6, 21.1.1999, p. 3 ).]