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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1267/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2011/1267",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1267/2011 of 6 December 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 as regards the arrangements for imports of organic products from third countries",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended as follows:\n(1) In Article 12, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:\n‘2. In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 37(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 a control body or a control authority, or a reference to a specific product category or to a specific third country in relation to that control body or control authority, may be withdrawn from the list referred to in Article 10 of this Regulation in the following cases:\n(a) if its annual report referred to paragraph 1(b) has not been received by the Commission by 31 March;\n(b) if it does not notify the Commission in due time of changes to its technical dossier;\n(c) if it does not provide information to the Commission during the investigations of an irregularity case;\n(d) if it fails to take adequate corrective measures in response to the irregularities and infringements observed;\n(e) if it does not agree to an on-the-spot examination required by the Commission, or if an on-the-spot examination comes up with a negative result due to systematic malfunctioning of control measures;\n(f) in any other situation presenting the risk for the consumer to be misled about the true nature of the products certified by the control body or the control authority.\nIf a control body or a control authority fails to take appropriate and timely remedial action after request by the Commission within a period which the Commission shall determine according to the severity of the problem and which generally may not be less than 30 days, the Commission shall withdraw it from the list without delay in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 37(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007. That withdrawal decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Commission shall make the amended list available as soon as possible to the public by any appropriate technical means, including publication on the Internet.’;\n(2) Article 15 is replaced by the following:\n‘Non-compliant products\nArticle 15 1. Without prejudice to any measures or actions taken in accordance with Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and/or Regulation (EC) No 889/2008, the release for free circulation in the Union of products not in conformity with the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 shall be conditional on the removal of references to organic production from the labelling, advertising and accompanying documents.\n2. Without prejudice to any measures or actions to be taken in accordance with Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, in case of suspicion of infringements and irregularities as regards compliance of the products imported in accordance with Article 33(3) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 with the requirements laid down in that Regulation, the importer shall take all necessary measures in accordance with Article 91(1) of Regulation (EC) No 889/2008.\nThe importer and the control authority or control body which issued the certificate of inspection as referred to in Article 13 of this Regulation shall immediately inform the control bodies, control authorities and competent authorities of the Member States concerned and of the third countries involved in the organic production of the products in question and, where appropriate, the Commission. The control authority or control body may require that the product cannot be placed on the market with indications referring to the organic production method until it is satisfied, by the information received from the operator or from other sources, that the doubt has been eliminated.\n3. Without prejudice to any measures or actions to be taken in accordance with Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, where a control authority or control body of a Member State or a third country has a substantiated suspicion of an infringement or irregularities as regards compliance of the products imported in accordance with Article 33(3) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 with the requirements laid down in that Regulation, it shall take all necessary measures in accordance with Article 91(2) of Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 and shall immediately inform the control bodies, control authorities and competent authorities of the Member States concerned and of the third countries involved in the organic production of the products in question and the Commission.’;\n(3) Article 19 is amended as follows:\n(a) in paragraph 1, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:\n‘Authorisations shall expire at the latest 12 months after being granted except those which have already been granted for a longer period before 1 July 2012.’;\n(b) paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:\n‘4. Member States shall no longer grant the authorisations referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article from 1 July 2013 unless:\nthe imported products in question are goods for which the organic production in the third country was controlled by a control body or a control authority not on the list set up in accordance with Article 10, or\nthe imported products in question are goods for which the organic production in the third country was controlled by a control body or a control authority on the list set up in accordance with Article 10 but the goods do not belong to any of the product categories listed in Annex IV in respect of the control body or control authority for that third country.’;\n(c) in paragraph 5, ‘1 January 2013’ is replaced by ‘1 July 2014’;\n(4) Annex IV is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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