Commission Regulation (EC) No 1318/2005 of 11 August 2005 amending Annex II of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs
Date: 2005-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: organic farming, plant health product, plant health treatment, soil conditioning

12.8.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1318/2005

of 11 August 2005

amending Annex II of 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,

the use of which can be reduced by applying calcium
hydroxide.

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 indent of Article 13,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

In accordance with the procedure provided for in Article
7(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, certain Member
States have since 2002 submitted information in view of
including certain products in Annex II to that Regulation.

a

lime,

from vacuum salt
by-product
Industrial
production from brine found in mountains, is considered
essential
specific soil-conditioning and nutrition
requirements in some Member States and has been
found not to have any harmful
impact on the envir-
onment.

for

Calcium hydroxide has been found to be essential to
in certain
control
in organic
climates. The
production is difficult and requires the use of copper,

fungal disease
control of

in fruit
trees
this disease

a

(4)

(5)

(6)

Ethylene is already included in Part B of Annex II to
Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 as a substance of tradi-
tional use in organic farming. It has appeared appropriate
to complete the conditions for use of that substance in
order to cover, besides bananas, certain other fruits for
which ethylene is needed in the production.

Annex II
therefore be amended accordingly.

to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 should

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 is amended in

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following 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, 11 August 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 198, 22.7.1991, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2254/2004 (OJ L 385, 29.12.2004, p. 20).

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ANNEX

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

1.

in the table to Part A ‘Fertilisers and soil conditioners’ the following entry is inserted after the entry ‘industrial lime
from sugar production’:

Name

Description, compositional requirements, conditions for use

‘Industrial lime from vacuum salt production

By-product of the vacuum salt production from brine found in
mountains

Need recognised by the
authority’

inspection body or

inspection

2.

in Part B ‘Pesticides’, point 1. ‘Products for plant protection’ is amended as follows:

(a)

in table IV ‘Other substances from traditional use in organic farming’, the entry concerning ‘ethylene’ is replaced by
the following:

Name

Description, compositional requirements, conditions for use

‘(*) Ethylene

(b) the following table V is added:

‘V. Other substances

Degreening of bananas, kiwis and kakis; Flower induction of
pineapple

Need recognised by the
authority’

inspection body or

inspection

Name

Description, compositional requirements, conditions for use

Calcium hydroxide

Fungicide

Only in fruit
galligena’

trees,

including nurseries,

to control Nectria