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  "legislation": "eur/2018/848",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-848",
  "path": "annex/II/part/2/division/1/division/1.2/division/1.2.1",
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  "number": "1.2.1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the case of simultaneous start of conversion of the production unit, including pasturage or any land used for animal feed, and of the animals existing on this production unit at the beginning of the conversion period of this production unit as referred to in points 1.7.1 and 1.7.5(b) of Part I, animals and animal products may be considered organic at the end of the conversion period of the production unit, even if the conversion period laid down in point 1.2.2 of this Part for the type of animal concerned is longer than the conversion period for the production unit.\nBy derogation from point 1.4.3.1, in the case of such simultaneous conversion and during the conversion period of the production unit, animals present in this production unit since the beginning of the conversion period may be fed with in-conversion feed produced on the in-conversion production unit during the first year of conversion and/or with feed in accordance with point 1.4.3.1 and/or with organic feed.\nNon-organic animals may be introduced into an in-conversion production unit after the start of the conversion period in accordance with point 1.3.4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/848/annex/II/part/2/division/1/division/1.2/division/1.2.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:05.823342+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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