New Draft Regulations on Organic Production (October 2001)

These interim organic standards are based on the second draft (published in October 2001) of the South African National Department of Agriculture's new regulations under the Agricultural product Standards Act of 1990.  Where AFRISCO tightens the draft any added clauses will be underlined.

Regulation 1.

- Definitions

Regulation 2.

- Scope of regulations

Regulation 3.

- Restriction on the sale of organically produced products

Regulation 4.

- General standards for organically produced products

Regulation 5.

- Standards for organically produced products from plant origin

Regulation 6.

- Standards for organically produced animals and products thereof 

Regulation 7.

- Standards for organic bee keeping

Regulation 8.

- Processing, handling and packaging of organically produced products

Regulation 9.

- Pest and disease control

Regulation 10.

- Cleaning, disinfections and sanitizing

Regulation 11.

- Labeling and marking requirements for organically produced products

Regulation 12.

- Inspection and certification

Regulation 13.

- Offences and penalties

Annexure 1.

- Substances for use in soil fertilizing and conditioning

Annexure 2.

- Criteria to evaluate additional inputs to organic agriculture

Annexure 3.

- Substances for plants, pets and disease control, weed management and growth regulation

Annexure 4.

- Minimum surface areas in-outdoors and characteristics of housing in the different productions

Annexure 5.

- Feed materials, feed additives, processing aids and substance used in feeding stuffs

Annexure 6.

- Guideline: Density of livestock equivalent to 70kg of Nitrogen per year/hectare

Annexure 7.

- Ingredients of non-agricultural origin

Annexure 8.

- Processing aids which may be used for the preparation of products

Annexure 9.

- Products authorized for cleaning and disinfections of building and installations ( e.g. Equipment and Utensils )

Annexure 10.

- Ingredients of agricultural origin which have not been produced organically