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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-537/annex",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/537",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 537/2009 of 19 June 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008, as regards the list of third countries from which certain agricultural products obtained by organic production must originate to be marketed within the Community (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-537",
  "path": "annex",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended as follows:\n1.. in point 5 of the text relating to Australia the following indent is added:\n‘AUS-QUAL Pty Ltd, www.ausqual.com.au’;\n2.. in point 5 of the text relating to Costa Rica the following indent is added:\n‘Control Union Certifications, www.cuperu.com’;\n3.. the text relating to India is amended as follows:\n(a) point 5 is replaced by the following:\n‘Aditi Organic Certifications Pvt. Ltd, www.aditicert.net\nAPOF Organic Certification Agency (AOCA), www.aoca.in\nBureau Veritas Certification India Pvt. Ltd, www.bureauveritas.co.in\nControl Union Certifications, www.controlunion.com\nECOCERT India Private Limited, www.ecocert.in\nFood Cert India Pvt. Ltd, www.foodcert.in\nIMO Control Private Limited, www.imo.ch\nIndian Organic Certification Agency (Indocert), www.indocert.org\nISCOP (Indian Society for Certification of Organic products), www.iscoporganiccertification.com\nLacon Quality Certification Pvt. Ltd, www.laconindia.com\nNatural Organic Certification Association, www.nocaindia.com\nOneCert Asia Agri Certification private Limited, www.onecertasia.in\nSGS India Pvt. Ltd, www.in.sgs.com\nUttaranchal State Organic Certification Agency (USOCA), www.organicuttarakhand.org/products_certification.htm\nVedic Organic certification Agency, www.vediccertification.com\nRajasthan Organic Certification Agency (ROCA), http://www.rajasthankrishi.gov.in/Departments/SeedCert/index_eng.asp’;\n(b) in point 7, ‘2009’ is replaced by ‘2014’;\n4.. in point 5 of the text relating to Israel the fourth indent is replaced by the following:\n‘Secal Israel Inspection and certification, www.skal.co.il’;\n5.. after the text relating to Switzerland, the following text is inserted:\n‘TUNISIA\n1. Product categories (a) unprocessed crop and vegetative propagating material and seeds for cultivation;\n(b) processed agricultural products for use as food composed essentially of one of more ingredients of plant origin.\n2. Origin products of category 1(a) and organically grown ingredients in products of category 1(b) that have been grown in Tunisia.\n3. Production standards Law No 99-30 of 5 April 1999 relating to organic Farming; Decree of the Minister for Agriculture of 28 February 2001, approving the standard specifications of the crop production according to the organic method.\n4. Competent authority Direction générale de la Production Agricole, www.agriportail.tn\n5. Control bodies Ecocert SA en Tunisie, www.ecocert.com\nIstituto Mediterraneo di Certificazione IMC, www.imcert.it\nBCS, www.bcs-oeko.com\nLacon, www.lacon-institute.com\n6. Certificate issuing bodies as at point 5.\n7. Duration of the inclusion 30 June 2012’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/537/annex",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:26.572565+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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