China | Draft Regulations Governing the Approval and Management of Accreditation Bodies for Organic Agricultural Products

Title of document
Draft Regulations Governing the Approval and Management of Accreditation Bodies for Organic Agricultural Products (11 page(s), in Chinese)

Description
The Organic Agriculture Promotion Act was promulgated on 30 May 2018 and will enter into effect on 30 May 2019. In accordance with Paragraph 5 of Article 11 of the Act, the “Regulations Governing the Approval and Management of Accreditation Bodies for Organic Agricultural Products” was drafted to stipulate provisions for the approval and supervision of accreditation bodies, information to be listed in the approval document, etc. The proposed text took into account current experiences of implementing production and certification of organic agricultural products as well as practices adopted in developed countries. The draft contains 19 Articles, which are summarized as follows:

Notifying member: Chinese Taipei

Notification: G/TBT/N/TPKM/365

Objective tag
Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection

Documents

• 19_1133_00_x.pdf

Agency responsible
Agriculture and Food Agency Council of Agriculture 8, Kuang-Hua Road, Chung-Hsing New Village Nantou 54044, Taiwan TEL: (886-49) 2332-380 ext 2429 FAX: (886-49) 234-1092 E-mail: hsiuhui@mail.afa.gov.tw

Timing:

• Submission: 27/02/2019
• Reception: 27/02/2019
• Distribution: 01/03/2019
• Final date for comments: 30/04/2019
• Proposed date of adoption: N/A