The Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Amendment of the Organic Products Regulations 2009 U.K.

2.—(1) The Organic Products Regulations 2009(1) are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 5 (permitted exceptions to the organic production rules), substitute—

“5.   A control body may permit the use of non-organic seed and seed potatoes for the purposes of Article 45(1)(b) and in accordance with Article 45 of Commission Regulation 889/2008(2).”.

(3) Omit regulation 12 (fees for import authorisations).

(4) In paragraph (1) of regulation 13 (fees for approvals of control bodies and post-approval inspections), for “£192.50” substitute “£203.00”.

(5) After regulation 32 insert—

“Review

32A.— (1) The Secretary of State, in relation to England, must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b) set out the conclusion of the review in a report; and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out a review mentioned in paragraph (1) the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to the powers and mechanisms available in other member States to enable the provisions of the Council Regulation(3), Commission Regulation 889/2008 and Commission Regulation 1235/2008(4) to be enforced.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations;

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which this regulation comes into force.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 1.10.2015, see reg. 1

(1)

S.I. 2009/842, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

OJ No L 250, 18.9.2008, p 1, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1358/2014 (OJ No L 365, 19.12.2014, p 97).

(3)

OJ No L 189, 20.7.2007, p 1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 (OJ No L 158, 10.6.2013, p 1).

(4)

OJ No L 334, 12.12.2008, p 25, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/931 (OJ No L 151, 18.6.2015, p 1).