Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1398

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007^note, and in particular Article 46(1) thereof,Whereas:

(1)Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378^note contains the list of control authorities and control bodies recognised in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 as competent to carry out controls and issue organic certificates in third countries for the purpose of imports of organic products into the Union in accordance with Article 45(1), point (b)(i), of that Regulation.

(2)Article 46(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 lays down the criteria that the control authorities and control bodies must fulfil in order to be recognised in accordance with Article 46(1) of that Regulation. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698^note lays down the procedural requirements to be met by those control authorities and control bodies when submitting to the Commission their request for recognition consisting of a technical dossier.

(3)The Commission has received and examined, in accordance with Article 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698, the requests for recognition from the control bodies ‘Baltic Testing India Private Limited’, ‘KAYOS ULUSLARARASI SERTİFİKASYON VE DENETİM HİZMETLERİ LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ’, ‘LETIS AUDIT & CERTIFICATION S.A.’, ‘MS Agroland Services Private Limited’, ‘VCERT QUALITY CERTIFICATION PRIVATE LIMITED’, and ‘ZENITH CERTIFICATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED’. Based on the information contained in their technical dossiers, the Commission has concluded that it was justified to recognise, for an indefinite duration, those control bodies for certain product categories in certain third countries.

(4)The Commission has also received and examined, in accordance with Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698, the requests for the extension of the scope of their recognition to certain product categories and certain third countries from the control bodies ‘bio.inspecta AG’, ‘Control Union Certifications B.V.’, ‘Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers, Inc. (FOG), DBA as Quality Certification Services (QCS)’, ‘IBD Certificações Ltda’, ‘IMOcert Latinoamérica Ltda.’, ‘IMO Control Private Limited’, ‘INDOCERT’, ‘Lacon Quality Certification Private Limited’, ‘ONECERT INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LIMITED’, and ‘Organizacion Internacional Agropecuaria S.A.’. Based on the information contained in their technical dossiers, the Commission has concluded that it was justified to recognise, for an indefinite duration, those control bodies for the requested product categories and third countries.

(5)The Commission has received requests from ‘Bio Latina Certificadora’, and ‘Southern Cross Certified Australia Pty Ltd’ for the reduction of their scope of recognition by removing certain third countries, certain product categories or both. The scope of recognition of those control bodies should therefore be updated accordingly.

(6)Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Organic Production Committee,

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