Organic Framing

European Union Regulations

• The European Union was one of the first to set up a policy on organic farming by adopting EU Council regulation.
• With this regulation, the council created a community frame work defining in detail the requirements for agricultural products or food stuffs bearing a reference to organic production methods.
• The regulation is set up primarily as a labelling regulation, meant to regulate the internal market for organic products but it also describes the organic production standards and inspection and supervision requirements.
• It virtually deals with all agricultural products and with all aspects of primary food production and food processing.