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Ref. : EIC 230/4
15 December 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 1155/2017
European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Regulation on Organic Production and Labelling of Organic Products
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 348/2014 dated 16 April 2014, the European Commission has adopted a Regulation to amend Regulation (EC) No. 889/2008 which has laid down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products regarding the use of non-organic animals and the use of non-organic feed of agricultural origin. Details are set out in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2273/2017, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2273&from=EN
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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Charles LO)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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