Commission Regulation (EC) No 1481/2004 of 19 August 2004 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs
Date: 2004-08-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, consumer information, foodstuff, labelling, organic farming

20.8.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 272/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1481/2004

of 19 August 2004

amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and
indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, of 24
June 1991 on organic production of agricultural products and
indications referring thereto on agricultural products and food-
stuffs (1), and in particular the second and third indents of
Article 13 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

typography defined for

Following the accession of new Member States to the
European Union,
the
the
laid down in
Community logo by the graphic manual
Annex V, part B.4, to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91
no longer has all the necessary characters and accents
of all the official
languages. Therefore, a further typo-
graphy has to be allowed in the graphic manual.

Annex VI, Section C, to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91
lists the ingredients of agricultural origin which have not
been produced organically but which may be used in the
preparation of
in accordance with the
conditions laid down in Article 5 of that Regulation,
provided that it has been shown that such ingredients
obtained by the organic production method are not
available in sufficient quantities within the Community.

foodstuffs

After it had been established that organically produced
casings were not available in sufficient quantities within
the Community, Annex VI, Section C,
to Regulation
(EEC) No 2092/91 was amended by Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 473/2002 (2), in order to include casings
in the list of agricultural
ingredients, for a transitional
period expiring on 1 April 2004.

It appears, however, that the availability in organically
produced casings still remains very limited and that it
is unlikely that sufficient quantities will be available in
the future. It is therefore necessary to allow the use of
casings not produced according to the organic farming
method without any limit in time.

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee set up
in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No
2092/91,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 is amended as follows:

1. In Annex V, part B.4, Section 2.4 (Typography) is replaced

by the following:

‘Use Frutiger or Myriad bold condensed in capitals for the
wording. The letter size of the wording shall be reduced
according to the norms set down in Section 2.6.’

2. In Annex VI, Section C, point C.3, in the entry for ‘casings’,

‘until 1 April 2004 only’ is deleted.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 19 August 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 198, 22.7.1991, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 746/2004 (OJ L 122, 26.4.2004,
p. 10).

(2) OJ L 75, 16.3.2002, p. 21. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 746/2004.