Regulations governing organic products

• For an agricultural product to be exported and sold as organic in another market, it must generally be certified by a third party as having met the organic production standards of the importing country’s organic regulations.
• In the EU, Regulation 834/2007 on the production, control and labelling of organic products includes provisions and harmonized procedures for importing organic products on the EU market.
• This can be done through either compliance with the EU’s organic legislation, or based on equivalence between standards and control systems.