Commission Regulation (EC) No 1517/2007 of 19 December 2007 amending Annex III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 as regards the derogation relating to the separation of organic and non-organic feed production lines
Date: 2007-12-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, animal nutrition, mode of production, organic farming, organic product

20.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 335/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1517/2007

of 19 December 2007

amending Annex III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 as regards the derogation relating to
the separation of organic and non-organic feed production lines

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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)

(2)

The second paragraph of point 3 of Part E of Annex III
to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 provides for a dero-
gation from the obligation for all equipment used in
units preparing compound feedingstuffs covered by
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 to be completely
separated from equipment used for preparing compound
feedingstuffs not covered by that Regulation. This dero-
gation expires on 31 December 2007.

and

non-organic

Experience shows that this derogation is broadly applied
by the operators. The use of the same production line for
organic
production
separated in time requires the application of appropriate
cleaning measures to guarantee the integrity of organic
feedingstuffs production. Evidence has been provided that
such measures, when rigorously applied under strict
control, can be effective.

feedingstuffs

Article 18 of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of
28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of
organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No
2092/91 (2) provides for the production of processed
organic
separated from production of
processed non-organic feed either in time or space.

feed to be

It is therefore appropriate to prolong the derogation until
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 enters into application
from 1 January 2009.

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
by Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91,

(4)

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Part E of Annex III to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, in the
second paragraph of point 3 the date ‘31 December 2007’ is
replaced by the date ‘31 December 2008’:

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 December 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) 1319/2007 (OJ L 293, 10.11.2007,
p. 3).

(2) OJ L 189, 20.7.2007, p. 1.