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Document 32024R3121

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3121 of 16 December 2024 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 as regards the recognition of certain control bodies in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council as competent to carry out controls and issue organic certificates in third countries for the purpose of imports of organic products into the Union

C/2024/8788

OJ L, 2024/3121, 17.12.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/3121/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

Legal status of the document In force

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/3121/oj

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2024/3121

17.12.2024

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/3121

of 16 December 2024

amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 as regards the recognition of certain control bodies in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council as competent to carry out controls and issue organic certificates in third countries for the purpose of imports of organic products into the Union

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (1), and in particular Article 46(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 (2) was adopted to contain the list of control authorities and control bodies recognised in accordance with Article 46(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 as competent to carry out controls and issue organic certificates in third countries for the purpose of imports of organic products into the Union in accordance with Article 45(1), point (b)(i), of that Regulation.

(2)

Article 46(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 lays down the criteria that the control authorities and control bodies must fulfil in order to be recognised in accordance with Article 46(1) of that Regulation. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698 (3) lays down the procedural requirements to be met by those control authorities and control bodies when submitting to the Commission their request for recognition consisting of a technical dossier.

(3)

Since the adoption of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378, the Commission has received requests for recognition, submitted in accordance with Article 46(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848, from a number of control bodies.

(4)

The Commission has received and examined, in accordance with Article 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698, the requests for recognition from ‘Başak Ekolojik Ürünler Kontrol ve Sertifikasyon Hizmetleri Ticaret Limited Şirketi’, ‘Bioagricert s.r.l. Unipersonale’, ‘DQS POLSKA SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ’, ‘GCL International Ltd’, ‘Japan Organic and Natural Foods Association’ and ‘Sertifikācijas un testēšanas centrs’. Based on the information contained in their technical dossiers, the Commission has concluded that it is justified to recognise for an indefinite duration those control bodies for certain product categories in certain third countries.

(5)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Organic Production Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 16 December 2024.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1)   OJ L 150, 14.6.2018, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/848/oj.

(2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 of 19 August 2021 laying down certain rules concerning the certificate issued to operators, groups of operators and exporters in third countries involved in the imports of organic and in-conversion products into the Union and establishing the list of recognised control authorities and control bodies in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 297, 20.8.2021, p. 24, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/1378/oj).

(3)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698 of 13 July 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council with procedural requirements for the recognition of control authorities and control bodies that are competent to carry out controls on operators and groups of operators certified organic and on organic products in third countries and with rules on their supervision and the controls and other actions to be performed by those control authorities and control bodies (OJ L 336, 23.9.2021, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2021/1698/oj).

ANNEX

The third paragraph of Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 is amended as follows:

(1)

the following entry is inserted after the entry for Balkan Biocert Macedonia DOOEL Skopje:

‘ Başak Ekolojik Ürünler Kontrol ve Sertifikasyon Hizmetleri Ticaret Limited Şirketi

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

AE-BIO-175

United Arab Emirates

x

—

—

x

—

—

x

KG-BIO-175

Kyrgyzstan

x

—

—

x

—

—

x

TR-BIO-175

Türkiye

x

—

—

x

—

—

x’

(2)

the following entry is inserted after the entry for Beijing Continental Hengtong Certification Co., Ltd:

‘ Bioagricert s.r.l. Unipersonale

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

AE-BIO-132

United Arab Emirates

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

AL-BIO-132

Albania

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

BO-BIO-132

Bolivia

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

CI-BIO-132

Côte d’Ivoire

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

CM-BIO-132

Cameroon

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

CN-BIO-132

China

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

DO-BIO-132

Dominican Republic

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

EC-BIO-132

Ecuador

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

FJ-BIO-132

Fiji

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

GT-BIO-132

Guatemala

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

ID-BIO-132

Indonesia

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

IN-BIO-132

India

—

x

—

x

x

—

x

KE-BIO-132

Kenya

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

KG-BIO-132

Kyrgyzstan

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

KR-BIO-132

Republic of Korea

x

—

—

—

x

—

x°

LA-BIO-132

Laos

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

MA-BIO-132

Morocco

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

MD-BIO-132

Moldova

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

MU-BIO-132

Mauritius

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

MX-BIO-132

Mexico

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

NG-BIO-132

Nigeria

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

OM-BIO-132

Oman

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

PF-BIO-132

French Polynesia

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

PH-BIO-132

Philippines

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

PY-BIO-132

Paraguay

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

SA-BIO-132

Saudi Arabia

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

SD-BIO-132

Sudan

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

SG-BIO-132

Singapore

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

SN-BIO-132

Senegal

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

TG-BIO-132

Togo

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

TH-BIO-132

Thailand

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

TR-BIO-132

Türkiye

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

UY-BIO-132

Uruguay

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

VN-BIO-132

Vietnam

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

ZA-BIO-132

South Africa

x

x

—

x

x

—

x

2.

 Exceptions: the products within product categories marked with an “°”, which are covered by the scope of an agreement on trade in organic products in accordance with Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 or by the scope of recognition as equivalent of the third country concerned listed in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2325.’;

(3)

the entry for DQS POLSKA SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ is replaced with the following:

‘DQS POLSKA SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

BA-BIO-181

Bosnia and Herzegovina

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

BR-BIO-181

Brazil

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

BY-BIO-181

Belarus

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

CN-BIO-181

China

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

ID-BIO-181

Indonesia

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

IN-BIO-181

India

—

x

—

x

—

—

x

KE-BIO-181

Kenya

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

KZ-BIO-181

Kazakhstan

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

LB-BIO-181

Lebanon

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

MG-BIO-181

Madagascar

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

MX-BIO-181

Mexico

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

MY-BIO-181

Malaysia

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

NG-BIO-181

Nigeria

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

PH-BIO-181

Philippines

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

PK-BIO-181

Pakistan

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

RS-BIO-181

Serbia

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

RU-BIO-181

Russia

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

TR-BIO-181

Türkiye

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

TW-BIO-181

Taiwan

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

TZ-BIO-181

Tanzania

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

UA-BIO-181

Ukraine

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

UZ-BIO-181

Uzbekistan

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

VN-BIO-181

Vietnam

x

x

—

x

—

—

x

ZA-BIO-181

South Africa

x

x

—

x

—

—

x’

(4)

the following entry is inserted after the entry for FOOD SAFETY S.A.:

‘ GCL International Ltd

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

CN-BIO-203

China

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

ID-BIO-203

Indonesia

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

IN-BIO-203

India

—

—

—

x

—

—

—

LK-BIO-203

Sri Lanka

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

MX-BIO-203

Mexico

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

PE-BIO-203

Peru

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

PH-BIO-203

Philippines

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

TH-BIO-203

Thailand

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

TR-BIO-203

Türkiye

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

VN-BII-203

Vietnam

x

—

—

x

—

—

—’

(5)

the following entry is inserted after the entry for INDOCERT:

‘ Japan Organic and Natural Foods Association

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

CN-BIO-145

China

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

JP-BIO-145

Japan

—

—

x

x°

—

—

x°

2.

 Exceptions: the products within product categories marked with an “°”, which are covered by the scope of an agreement on trade in organic products in accordance with Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 or by the scope of recognition as equivalent of the third country concerned listed in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2325.’;

(6)

the following entry is inserted after the entry for Organska Kontrola d.o.o. Sarajevo:

‘ Sertifikācijas un testēšanas centrs

1.

 Code numbers, third countries and product categories concerned:

Code number

Third country

Category of products

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

AM-BIO-173

Armenia

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

AZ-BIO-173

Azerbaijan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

BD-BIO-173

Bangladesh

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

BY-BIO-173

Belarus

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

GE-BIO-173

Georgia

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

IN-BIO-173

India

—

—

—

x

x

—

—

KG-BIO-173

Kyrgyzstan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

KZ-BIO-173

Kazakhstan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

LK-BIO-173

Sri Lanka

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

MD-BIO-173

Moldova

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

NP-BIO-173

Nepal

x

—

—

x

—

—

—

RU-BIO-173

Russia

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

TJ-BIO-173

Tajikistan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

TM-BIO-173

Turkmenistan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

TR-BIO-173

Türkiye

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

UA-BIO-173

Ukraine

x

x

—

x

x

x

—

UZ-BIO-173

Uzbekistan

x

x

—

x

x

x

—’

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/3121/oj

ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)

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