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REGULATIONSCOMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 471/2010
of 31 May 2010
amending Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008, as regards the list of third countries from which certain
agricultural products obtained by organic production must originate to be marketed within theUnion(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,(3)

Certain agricultural products imported from Japan are
currently marketed in the Union pursuant to the transi­
tional rules provided for in Article 19 of Regulation (EC)No 1235/2008. Japan submitted a request to theCommission to be included in the list provided for in
Annex III to that Regulation and submitted theinformation required pursuant to Articles 7 and 8 ofthat Regulation. The examination of that informationand consequent discussion with the Japanese authorities
have led to the conclusion that in that country the rules
governing production and controls of organic production
are equivalent to those laid down in Regulation (EC) No
834/2007. The Commission has examined on-the-spot
the rules of production and the control measures
actually applied in Japan, as provided for in
Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007.
Consequently, the Commission should include Japan inthe list provided for in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No1235/2008.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 should therefore beamended accordingly.

(5)

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

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the EuropeanUnion,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic
products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 (1), and inparticular Article 33(2) thereof,

Whereas:(1)(2)

In accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No
834/2007, Annex III to Commission Regulation (EC) No
1235/2008 of 8 December 2008 laying down detailed
rules for implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No
834/2007 as regards the arrangements for imports oforganic products from third countries (2) has establisheda list of third countries whose system of production andcontrol measures for organic production of agricultural
products are recognised as equivalent to those laid downin that Regulation. In the light of a new application andinformation received by the Commission from third
countries since the last publication of the list, certain
modifications should be taken into consideration andadded or inserted in the list.

The Australian authorities have informed theCommission that one control body has undergone arestructure and changed its name. The Australianauthorities have provided the Commission with thenecessary guarantees to satisfy it that the restructured
control body meets the preconditions laid down in
Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008.

(1) OJ L 189, 20.7.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 334, 12.12.2008, p. 25.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended inaccordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

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Article 2This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal ofthe European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 31 May 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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ANNEX
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended as follows:
1. in point 5 of the text relating to Australia, the fourth indent is replaced by the following:‘— NASAA Certified Organic (NCO), www.nasaa.com.au’;2. after the text relating to Israel, the following text is inserted:‘JAPAN
1. Product categories:(a) unprocessed crop products and vegetative propagating material and seeds for cultivation;(b) processed agricultural products for use as food composed essentially of one or more ingredients of plant origin.
2. Origin: products of category 1(a) and organically grown ingredients in products of category 1(b) that have beengrown in Japan.
3. Production standards: Japanese Agricultural Standard for Organic Plants (Notification No 1605 of the MAFF ofOctober 27, 2005), Japanese Agricultural Standard for Organic Processed Foods (Notification No 1606 of MAFF ofOctober 27, 2005).
4. Competent authorities: Labelling and Standards Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, www.maff.go.jp/j/jas/index.html and Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection
Center (FAMIC), www.famic.go.jp
5. Control bodies:— Hyogo prefectural Organic Agriculture Society (HOAS), www.hyoyuken.org— AFAS Certification Center Co., Ltd, www.afasseq.com— NPO Kagoshima Organic Agriculture Association, www.koaa.or.jp— Center of Japan Organic Farmers Group, www.yu-ki.or.jp— Japan Organic & Natural Foods Association, http://jona-japan.org/organic— Ecocert-QAI Japan Ltd, http://ecocert.qai.jp— Japan Certification Services, Inc., www.pure-foods.co.jp— OCIA Japan, www.ocia-jp.com— Overseas Merchandise Inspection Co., Ltd, www.omicnet.com/index.html.en— Organic Farming Promotion Association, www3.ocn.ne.jp/~yusuikyo— ASAC Stands for Axis’ System for Auditing and Certification and Association for Sustainable AgriculturalCertification, www.axis-asac.net— Environmentally Friendly Rice Network, www.epfnetwork.org/okome— Ooita Prefecture Organic Agricultural Research Center, www.d-b.ne.jp/oitayuki
6. Certificate issuing bodies: as at point 5.
7. Duration of the inclusion: 30 June 2013.’.

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