Changes to legislation, certification procedures
When starting to farm organically, the operator needs to identify potential sources of risk in their business, assess the level of risk and understand the causes of risk.
The next step is to develop a plan of precautionary measures to be implemented during the business operation to prevent contamination of the products throughout the operator's production process.
Please be informed that as of 21 March 2023, a platform for the publication of advertisements for the sale/purchase of organic livestock has been opened on the authorised section of the website of the Agricultural Data Centre (LDC).
Details on the publication of the notices are available on the LDC website https://registri.ldc.gov.lv/ in the public section Organic farming.
How to add an advert for buying and selling animals on the Organic Trade Portal - see presentation!
From 1 January 2023, organic certificates will be issued and made publicly available only on the common European Commission website TRACES. The transition period to the new system will be over and from the new year certificates will only be issued on the EC website TRACES.
The new Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council on organic production and labelling of organic products establishes a completely new framework for the issuing, maintenance and publication of certificates for organic operators:
With all this, the search for certificates will be different.
STC is also adapting its database to the new system, so from 1 January 2023, certificates will be issued and available only through the TRACES certificate maintenance system.
Organic farmers are required to report to the State Plant Protection Service (SPS) the conventional seed and vegetative propagating material used, including the species covered by the general authorisation.
The inventory form is available on the VAAD website: https://saite.lv/DHbZp
This is necessary to facilitate the development of the market for organic propagating material, the expansion of the range of organic propagating material and accessibility.
Sugu SARAXgranted a general authorisation to use conventionally sourced seed for organic production in 2022.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Europe since autumn last year. With the onset of wild bird migration, avian influenza viruses can spread to Latvia, so please organise your poultry keeping carefully.
All suspected cases of disease in poultry must be reported immediately Food and Veterinary Service, organic certified poultry flocks must ensure that all veterinary measures are recorded and presented to the certification authority at the time of the inspection.
SIA "Certification and Testing Centre" reminds Food and Veterinary Service a call on poultry keepers to strictly comply with biosecurity and other rules to prevent the introduction of avian influenza and other diseases into the poultry house:
Feeding and watering of poultry must be organised in the housing or in a confined area, preventing access of wild birds to feed and bedding;
staff working in poultry houses and persons coming into contact with poultry must be provided with work or change clothing and footwear that is used only where poultry are kept;
water other than from surface water reservoirs must be used to water poultry;
to prevent direct and indirect contact with wild waterbirds, the release of poultry, which are waterbirds, into water bodies of natural origin is prohibited;
participation in poultry markets and door-to-door sales of poultry and hatching eggs is prohibited.
Changes to the rules on the introduction of non-organic animals into the herd from 1 January 2022!
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