- advertising
means any representation to the public, by any means other than a label, that is intended or is likely to influence and shape attitude, beliefs and behaviours in order to promote directly or indirectly the sale of organic products;
- competent authority
means the central authority of a Member State competent for the organisation of official controls in the field of organic production in accordance with the provisions set out under this Regulation, or any other authority on which that competence has been conferred to;
- control authority
means a public administrative organisation of a Member State to which the competent authority has conferred, in whole or in part, its competence for the inspection and certification in the field of organic production in accordance with the provisions set out under this Regulation;
- control body
means an independent private third party carrying out inspection and certification in the field of organic production in accordance with the provisions set out under this Regulation;
- conversion
means the transition from non organic to organic farming within a given period of time, during which the provisions concerning the organic production have been applied;
- labelling
means any terms, words, particulars, trade marks, brand name, pictorial matter or symbol relating to and placed on any packaging, document, notice, label, board, ring or collar accompanying or referring to a product;
- livestock production
means the production of domestic or domesticated terrestrial animals (including insects);
- mark of conformity
means the assertion of conformity to a particular set of standards or other normative documents in the form of a mark;
- mass catering operations
means the preparation of organic products in restaurants, hospitals, canteens and other similar food business at the point of sale or delivery to the final consumer.
- operator
means the natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this Regulation are met within the organic business under their control;
- organic
means coming from or related to organic production;
- organic production
means the use of the production method compliant with the rules established in this Regulation, at all stages of production, preparation and distribution;
- plant production
means production of agricultural crop products including harvesting of wild plant products for commercial purposes;
- preparation
means the operations of preserving and/or processing of organic products, including slaughter and cutting for livestock products, and also packaging, labelling and/or alterations made to the labelling concerning the organic production method;
- processing aid
means any substance not consumed as a food ingredient by itself, intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or their ingredients, to fulfil a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the unintentional but technically unavoidable presence of residues of the substance or its derivatives in the final product, provided that these residues do not present any health risk and do not have any technological effect on the finished product;
- produced by GMOs
means derived by using a GMO as the last living organism in the production process, but not containing or consisting of GMOs nor produced from GMOs;
- produced from GMOs
means derived in whole or in part from GMOs but not containing or consisting of GMOs;
- stages of production, preparation and distribution
means any stage from and including the primary production of an organic product up to and including its storage, processing, transport, sale or supply to the final consumer, and where relevant labelling, advertising, import, export and subcontracting activities;