Activites

• 2008/10/03 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2008/967
  • OJ L 264 03.10.2008, p. 0001
• #2892
• 2008/09/29 Council Meeting
• 2008/09/29 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2008/09/29 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2008/09/02 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0377/2008 summary

    The European Parliament adopted, by 667 votes to 12 with 7 abstentions under the consultation procedure, a legislative resolution approving the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products. The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Neil PARISH (EPP-ED, UK) on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

• 2008/07/16 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0311/2008
• 2008/07/14 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2008/06/19 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2008/05/23 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2008)0314 summary

    PURPOSE: to postpone until 1 July 2010 the compulsory use of the EU logo in Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products.PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.CONTENT: Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products will apply as of 1 January 2009. Under Article 24(1)(b) of the Regulation, it will be compulsory to use an EU logo on pre-packaged organic products from that date. Before that date, the use of a Community logo is optional.The purpose of this proposal is to postpone the compulsory use of the EU logo pending the design of a new logo.This delay shall help to avoid:- the confusion of consumers by changing EU logos within a short time period and - the creation of additional financial burden for operators, who would have to change their packaging and print-outs within a very short time frame. The design of a new EU logo is necessary since it turned out that the current EU logo for organic products according to Annex V of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 is easily confusable with other logos, like the EU logos for quality production (PDIs, PGOs and TSGs) pursuant to Commission Regulations (EC) No 1898/2006 and (EC) No 1216/2007.It is important for the perception of consumers to ensure an informative labelling with a distinctive and appealing EU logo, which represents the organic production and clearly identifies the products.To gain a broad acceptance of the new EU logo, it should be drawn up by including the public in the design procedure. This will be carried out by a public contest during the promotion campaign for the organic farming which will be launched in July 2008.This campaign is scheduled for a period of three years and this timeframe can be used for the organisation of the public web-contest at European level and subsequent decision making process. This implies postponing the compulsory use of the EU logo until mid-2010.Accordingly, an additional paragraph is added in Article 42 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 stipulating that Article 24(1)(b) and (c) of the Regulation will apply as of 1 July 2010.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/', 'title': 'Agriculture and Rural Development'}, FISCHER BOEL Mariann

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2008)0314
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0311/2008
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0377/2008
• : Regulation 2008/967
• : OJ L 264 03.10.2008, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)