Regulation (EU) 2018/848

means any presentation of products to the public, by any means other than a label, that is intended or is likely to influence and shape attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in order to directly or indirectly promote the sale of products;

means agricultural area as defined in point (e) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013;

means an agricultural product that has not been subjected to any operation of preservation or processing;

means aquaculture as defined in point (25) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means aquaculture products as defined in point (34) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;

means mixtures traditionally used in biodynamic farming;

means a facility on land or in a vessel where aquaculture takes place within an enclosed environment involving the recirculation of water and which depends on permanent external energy input to stabilise the environment for the aquaculture animals;

means competent authorities as defined in point (3) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;

means an organic control authority as defined in point (4) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, or an authority recognised by the Commission or by a third country recognised by the Commission for the purposes of carrying out controls in third countries for the import of organic and in-conversion products into the Union;

means a delegated body as defined in point (5) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, or a body recognised by the Commission or by a third country recognised by the Commission for the purposes of carrying out controls in third countries for the import of organic and in-conversion products into the Union;

means the transition from non-organic to organic production within a given period, during which the provisions of this Regulation concerning organic production apply;

means energy from renewable non-fossil sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases;

means an engineered nanomaterial as defined in point (f) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means meeting the same objectives and principles by applying rules which ensure the same level of assurance of conformity;

means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, regardless of the legal status of that group and its members under national law, who exercises an agricultural activity;

means feed as defined in point (4) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

means food as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a food additive as defined in point (a) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a food enzyme as defined in point (a) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1332/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a group of plants constituting a single step in the line of descent of plants;

means a genetically modified organism as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council which is not obtained through the techniques of genetic modification listed in Annex I.B to that Directive;

means a place for the breeding, hatching and rearing through the early life stages of aquaculture animals, in particular finfish and shellfish;

means all the production units operated under single management for the purpose of producing live or unprocessed agricultural products, including products originating from aquaculture and beekeeping, referred to in point (a) of Article 2(1) or products listed in Annex I other than essential oils and yeast;

means a product that is produced during the conversion period referred to in Article 10;

means a production unit, during the conversion period referred to in Article 10, which is managed in compliance with the requirements applicable to organic production;

means an ingredient as defined in point (f) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 or, for products other than food, any substance or product used in the manufacture or preparation of products that is still present in the finished product, even in altered form;

means the fact that the product does not exhibit non-compliance which:

means ionising radiation as defined in point (46) of Article 4 of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom;

means any words, particulars, trade marks, brand name, pictorial matter or symbol relating to a product that are placed on any packaging, document, notice, label, ring or collar that accompanies or refers to that product;

means animals of the Gallus gallus species that are intended for the production of eggs for consumption and that are of an age of at least 18 weeks;

means the production of domestic or domesticated terrestrial animals, including insects;

means aquaculture species which are neither alien nor locally absent species within the meaning of points (6) and (7), respectively, of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 708/2007, as well as the species listed in Annex IV to that Regulation;

means an identified plant from which plant reproductive material is taken for the reproduction of new plants;

means non-compliance with this Regulation or non-compliance with the delegated or implementing acts adopted in accordance with this Regulation;

means a production unit which is not managed in compliance with the requirements applicable to organic production;

means a place where an intermediate aquaculture production system is applied between the hatchery and grow-out stages.

means the natural or legal person responsible for ensuring that this Regulation is complied with at every stage of production, preparation and distribution that are under that person’s control;

means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank which:

means a product resulting from organic production, other than a product produced during the conversion period referred to in Article 10.

means the use, including during the conversion period referred to in Article 10, of production methods that comply with this Regulation at all stages of production, preparation and distribution;

means a production unit, excluding during the conversion period referred to in Article 10, which is managed in compliance with the requirements applicable to organic production;

means a variety as defined in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 which:

means an enclosure that includes a part in which animals are provided with protection from adverse weather conditions.

means a pest as defined in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means placing on the market as defined in point (8) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

means production of agricultural crop products including harvesting of wild plant products for commercial purposes;

means plant products as defined in point (6) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009;

means the products referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009;

means plants and all parts of plants, including seeds, at any stage of growth that are capable of, and intended for, producing entire plants;

means plants as defined in point (5) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009;

means the rearing in aquaculture of two or more species, usually from different trophic levels, in the same culture unit;

means a fixed or mobile building for accommodating flocks of poultry, which includes all surfaces covered by roofs, including a veranda;

means measures that are to be taken by operators at every stage of production, preparation, and distribution to avoid contamination with products or substances that are not authorised for use in organic production in accordance with this Regulation, and to avoid the commingling of organic products with non-organic products;

means prepacked food as defined in point (e) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011;

means the operations of preserving or processing of organic or in-conversion products, or any other operation that is carried out on an unprocessed product without altering the initial product, such as slaughtering, cutting, cleaning or milling, as well as packaging, labelling or alterations made to the labelling relating to organic production;

means measures that are to be taken by operators at every stage of production, preparation and distribution in order to ensure the preservation of biodiversity and soil quality, measures for the prevention and control of pests and diseases and measures that are to be taken to avoid negative effects on the environment, animal health and plant health;

means processed products as defined in point (o) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, irrespective of packaging or labelling operations;

means processing as defined in point (m) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

means a processing aid as defined in point (b) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 for food and in point (h) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 for feed;

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;

means derived in whole or in part from GMOs but not containing or consisting of GMOs;

means the lifespan of an aquaculture animal or alga, from the earliest life stage (fertilised eggs, in the case of aquaculture animals) to harvesting;

means all assets of a holding, such as primary production premises, land parcels, pasturages, open air areas, livestock buildings or parts thereof, hives, fish ponds, containment systems and sites for algae or aquaculture animals, rearing units, shore or seabed concessions, and premises for the storage of crops, of crop products, of algae products, of animal products, of raw materials and of any other relevant inputs managed as described in point (10), point (11) or point (12);

means young animals of the Gallus gallus species that are of an age of less than 18 weeks;

means production in living soil or in soil that is mixed or fertilised with materials and products that are allowed in organic production in connection with the subsoil and bedrock;

means any stage from the primary production of an organic product through its storage, processing, transport, and sale or supply to the final consumer, including, where relevant, labelling, advertising, import, export and subcontracting activities;

means the live weight of aquaculture animals per cubic metre of water at any time during the grow-out phase and, in the case of flatfish and shrimp, the weight per square metre of surface.

means the ability to trace and follow food, feed or any product referred to in Article 2(1), and any substance intended or expected to be incorporated into food, feed or any product referred to in Article 2(1), through all stages of production, preparation and distribution;

means unprocessed products as defined in point (n) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, irrespective of packaging or labelling operations;

means usable area as defined in point (d) of Article 2(2) of Council Directive 1999/74/EC;

means an additional, roofed, uninsulated, outdoor part of a building intended for poultry, the longest side usually being equipped with wire fencing or netting, with an outdoor climate, natural and, where necessary, artificial illumination, and a littered floor;

means a veterinary medicinal product as defined in point (2) of Article 1 of Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means all courses of a curative or preventive treatment against an occurrence of a specific disease;

means pollution as defined in point (33) of Article 2 of Directive 2000/60/EC and in point (8) of Article 3 of Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, in the waters to which each of those Directives applies;