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Before marketing a product as organic or in conversion, any operator that produces, manufactures, stores
or imports products from a third country or that markets these products must:
a) Notify their activity to the CCAA where it is carried out, in the case of the Valencian Community, to the
CAECV.
b) Submit your company to the control regime established by the CAECV based on the regulations.
Under the current organic production regulations:
Are certificable.
a) Live or unprocessed agricultural products.
b) Processed agricultural products intended to be used for human consumption.
c) Feed.
d) Vegetative reproductive material and seeds for cultivation.
e) Yeasts intended for human or animal consumption.
Not certificable:
a) The products of hunting and fishing of wild animals shall not be considered organic production.
b) Collective catering activities are also not included in the scope.
Case 2. Agriculture Biologique and Bio Coherence
AB is the France’s national logo for organic products since 1985. Organic products carrying the logo must
contain more than 95 percent organic components, and be produced or processed within the EU, and were
certified by one of the inspection bodies accredited according to EN 45011.
L’Agence Bio began managing and promoting the label in 2008.
