(6)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/883note extended the scope of the recognition of Japan for the purposes of equivalence to live animals and unprocessed animal products as well as to all processed agricultural products for use as food, including wine and alcoholic beverages, with organically grown ingredients that have been grown in Japan, or imported into Japan from the European Union, from third countries whose production methods and control measures have been recognised by Japan as equivalent to those laid down in the Japanese legislation, or from third countries through the system of control bodies recognised by Japan as competent to certify operators in those third countries as complying with the organic production rules of Japan. Consequently, those product categories no longer need to be included in the list of product categories of recognised control authorities and control bodies in accordance with Article 2(1), point (b), of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378, and the control bodies ‘Control Union Certifications B.V.’, ‘Ecocert SAS’, ‘Japan Organic and Natural Foods Association’ and ‘Organic Crop Improvement Association International Inc’, listed in Annex II to that Regulation are therefore no longer competent to carry out controls and issue organic certificates for them in Japan for the purpose of their import into the Union.
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