Commission Regulation (EC) No 592/2006 of  12 April 2006  amending Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs
Date: 2006-04-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, consumer information, domestic waste, foodstuff, labelling, organic farming, organic fertiliser

13.4.2006

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 592/2006

of 12 April 2006

amending Annex II to 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,

(2)

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
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 473/2002 of 15 March
2002 amending Annexes I, II and VI to Council Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agri-
cultural products and indications referring thereto on
agricultural products and foodstuffs, and laying down
detailed rules as regards the transmission of information
on the use of copper compounds (2) extended the author-
isation to use composted or fermented household waste
in organic farming with a number of conditions for its
use for four years, pending a possible review of these
conditions after the expiry of that period in the light
of possible new Community legislation on household
waste.

The four-year period expires on 31 March 2006 and no
new Community legislation on the use of household
waste has yet been established. It is therefore considered
authorisation to use
appropriate
composted or fermented household waste in organic
farming under
the present conditions but with no
further limitation in time.

to maintain the

(3)

(4)

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 day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 April 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

(EC) No 1916/2005 (OJ

last amended by
L 307,

Commission Regulation
25.11.2005, p. 10).

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

lation (EC) No 746/2004 (OJ L 122, 26.4.2004, p. 10).

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ANNEX

In the table in Part A of Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 (Fertilisers and soil conditioners), for the entry
‘Composted or fermented household waste’, the following is deleted: ‘Only during a period expiring on 31 March 2006’.