Standards

Make your choice!

A confusing number of organic standards make orientation of organic operators quite difficult. The choice of the most appropriate organic certification standard depends mainly on the final market of the organic product. The most important import countries for organic products and an increasing number of production countries have regulated the organic markets, i.e. a product must be certified according to the applicable regulation in order to be marketed as "organic":

The most important regulated markets are:

• The European Union with its regulation on organic production: Council Regulation (EC) 834/2007 (former EU Regulation 2092/91); Commission Regulation (EC) 889/2008, Commission Regulation (EC) 1235/2008;

  download or look on-line version: 834/2007, 889/2008, 1235/2008

• The US organic market with its National Organic Program (NOP);

  visit official web-site

• The Japanese organic market with its JAS Standard;

  download or visit oficial web-site

• Switzerland, Israel, Argentina, Australia have set up organic regulations that are considered equivalent to the Council Regulation (EC) 834/2007;
• more and more countries world-wide set up their own local organic regulations or standards.

For non-EU countries Equivalent European Union Organic Production and Processing Standard for Third Countries are applied. You can download it here.

April, 21 Ukraine pass the law "About Organic Production". It coming into effect since 1st of January 2012. You can download it here

One of the important sections defined by law is certification system of organic production as well as state supervision and control  of Certification Bodies. More information you can see here