{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-2146/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-2146/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/2146",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2146 of 24 September 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exceptional production rules in organic production (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-2146",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Conditions for derogations",
  "text": "1. Following the formal decision referred to in Article 1, the competent authorities may, upon identification of the operators affected in the area concerned or upon request from the individual operator concerned, grant the relevant derogations set out in Article 3 and the conditions related thereto, provided that those derogations and conditions apply:\n(a) for a limited period and no longer than necessary, and in no case longer than 12 months, to continue or recommence organic production as carried out before the date of application of those derogations;\n(b) in relation to specifically affected types of production or, where relevant, land parcels; and\n(c) to all relevant organic operators affected in the area concerned or only to the individual operator concerned, as the case may be.\n2. The application of the derogations referred to in paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to the validity of the certificates referred to in Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 during the period where the derogations apply, provided that the operator or operators concerned fulfil the conditions under which derogations were granted.",
  "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/2020/2146/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:11.871887+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}