🔆 📖 ➕ 👤

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 94

Agriculture

The Organic Control (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Made

at 11.54 a.m. on 28th January 2021

Laid before Parliament

at 4.00 p.m. on 28th January 2021

Coming into force

1st February 2021

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 28(6), 38, 38a and 38b(8) of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products( 1 ).

The Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers have consented to the Secretary of State making these regulations for the purposes of Article 38a(3) of that Regulation.

In accordance with Article 38b(9) of that Regulation, the Secretary of State has consulted such bodies or persons as appear to the Secretary of State to be representative of the interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations and such other bodies or persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

Citation, commencement and extent

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Organic Control (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1st February 2021.

(2) These Regulations extend to Great Britain.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/977

2. —(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/977 derogating from Regulations (EC) No 889/2008 and (EC) No 1235/2008 as regards controls on the production of organic products due to the COVID-19 pandemic is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) in paragraph 2 omit “in the Member States and in the Third Country concerned”;

(b) omit paragraph 4;

(c) in paragraph 7—

(i) omit “, and planned until 1 February 2021”;

(ii) omit “in the Member State concerned”.

(3) Omit Article 2.

(4) In Article 3—

(a) in the second paragraph omit “until 1 February 2021”;

(b) omit the third paragraph;

(c) in the fourth paragraph for “31 December 2020” substitute “31 December 2021”;

(d) omit the fifth paragraph.

(5) After Article 3, omit the words from “This Regulation” to “Member States”.

Victoria Prentis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

At 11.54 a.m. on 28th January 2021

( 1 )

EUR 2007/834, amended by S.I. 2019/692 , 693, 831. “Appropriate authority” has the meaning given in Article 38a.

Status: This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.
The Organic Control (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (2021/94)

Displaying information

Status of this instrument

footnotecommentarytransitional and savingsin force statusrelated provisionsgeo extentinsert/omitsource countin force adj
Defined TermSection/ArticleIDScope of Application
This instrument is derived from the version at www.legislation.gov.uk. To see a list of all amendments (including any to be made) check the resources page for this instrument on their website. Note, the status of this instrument is given above.
This instrument is derived from the version at www.legislation.gov.uk. To see original commencement information, check the resources page associated with this instrument. n.b. commencement information for marked amendments is embedded in the relevant footnote.

Status of changes to instrument text

The list includes made instruments, both those in force and those yet to come into force. Typically, instruments that are not yet in force (hence their changes are not incorporated into the text above) are indicated by description 'not yet' in the changes made column.