Commission Regulation (EC) No 1319/2007 of 9 November 2007 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 as regards use of feed from parcels in their first year of conversion to organic farming
Date: 2007-11-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural production, animal feedingstuffs, organic farming

10.11.2007

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1319/2007

of 9 November 2007

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 as regards use of feed from parcels in
their first year of conversion to organic farming

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(6)

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,

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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

In Part B of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, point 4.4
is replaced by the following:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 provides for
livestock to be fed primarily with feed grown on the
holding itself and a wide use of pasturage for herbivores.
requirement, organic
In order
farmers enlarge their holdings in particular by purchasing
or renting pasture and perennial forage parcels.

to comply with that

‘4.4. Until 31 December 2008, up to 50 % of

the feed
formula of
rations on average may comprise in-
in-conversion
conversion feedingstuffs. When the
feedingstuffs come from a unit of the holding itself,
this percentage may be increased to 80 %.

In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91
purchased and rented non-organic land has to pass
through a conversion period before becoming organic.
Further, feedingstuffs obtained during the first year of
conversion are not considered to be in-conversion
feedingstuffs, nor can they be sold easily for use in
conventional farming, as there is a very limited market
for such non-organic perennial forage.

The use of non-organically produced feedingstuffs for
herbivores will be incompatible with Annex I, Part B,
point 4.8(a), of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 after 31
December 2007. Any requirement to continue grazing to
use land purchased or rented for the holding itself during
its first year of conversion to organic farming will
become difficult to fulfil after that date.

the feed
As from 1 January 2009, up to 30 % of
rations on average may comprise in-
formula of
conversion feedingstuffs. When the
in-conversion
feedingstuffs come from a unit of the holding itself,
this percentage may be increased to 60 %.

Up to 20 % of the total average amount of feedingstuffs
fed to the livestock may originate from the grazing or
harvesting of permanent pastures or perennial forage
parcels in their first year of conversion, provided that
they are part of the holding itself and have not been
part of an organic production unit of that holding in
the last five years. When both in-conversion feeding-
stuffs and feedingstuffs from parcels in their first year of
combined
conversion are being used,
percentage of such feedingstuffs shall not exceed the
maximum percentages fixed in the first and second
paragraphs.

total

the

(4)

is therefore necessary to allow the inclusion of a
It
certain percentage of feed obtained from first year in-
conversion parcels in the feed formula of rations.

(1) OJ L 198, 22.7.1991, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 807/2007 (OJ L 181, 11.7.2007, p. 10).

figures

shall be

These
a
percentage of the dry matter of feedingstuffs of agri-
cultural origin.’

calculated annually

as

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 9 November 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission