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Annex

United Kingdom

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Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    in point 5 of the text relating to Australia, the fourth indent is replaced by the following:

    • ‘NASAA Certified Organic (NCO), www.nasaa.com.au’;

  2. 2..

    after the text relating to Israel, the following text is inserted:

    ‘JAPAN

    1. Product categories
    1. (a)

      unprocessed crop products and vegetative propagating material and seeds for cultivation;

    2. (b)

      processed agricultural products for use as food composed essentially of one or more ingredients of plant origin.

    4. 2. Origin

  4. products of category 1(a) and organically grown ingredients in products of category 1(b) that have been grown in Japan.

    5. 3. Production standards

  5. Japanese Agricultural Standard for Organic Plants (Notification No 1605 of the MAFF of October 27, 2005), Japanese Agricultural Standard for Organic Processed Foods (Notification No 1606 of MAFF of October 27, 2005).

    6. 4. Competent authorities

  6. Labelling and Standards Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, www.maff.go.jp/j/jas/index.html and Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center (FAMIC), www.famic.go.jp

    7. 5. Control bodies

    • Hyogo prefectural Organic Agriculture Society (HOAS), www.hyoyuken.org

    • AFAS Certification Center Co., Ltd, www.afasseq.com

    • NPO Kagoshima Organic Agriculture Association, www.koaa.or.jp

    • Center of Japan Organic Farmers Group, www.yu-ki.or.jp

    • Japan Organic & Natural Foods Association, http://jona-japan.org/organic

    • Ecocert-QAI Japan Ltd, http://ecocert.qai.jp

    • Japan Certification Services, Inc., www.pure-foods.co.jp

    • OCIA Japan, www.ocia-jp.com

    • Overseas Merchandise Inspection Co., Ltd, www.omicnet.com/index.html.en

    • Organic Farming Promotion Association, www3.ocn.ne.jp/~yusuikyo

    • ASAC Stands for Axis’ System for Auditing and Certification and Association for Sustainable Agricultural Certification, www.axis-asac.net

    • Environmentally Friendly Rice Network, www.epfnetwork.org/okome

    • Ooita Prefecture Organic Agricultural Research Center, www.d-b.ne.jp/oitayuki

    8. 6. Certificate issuing bodies

  8. as at point 5.

    9. 7. Duration of the inclusion

  9. 30 June 2013.’.