The traditional specialities guaranteed protected within the Community should be subject to control arrangements, based on Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (5), as well as control arrangements to ensure that operators comply with the product specification before marketing agricultural products and foodstuffs.

define the objectives and principles of organic production while accounting for local conditions and stages of development, assure that the objectives and principles apply equally to all stages of organic livestock, aquaculture, plant and feed production as well as the production of organic foods, clarify the GMO rules, notably that the general GMO thresholds apply, that GMO products cannot be labelled organic and that specific thresholds for seeds can be adopted, render compulsory either the EU logo or - in its absence - a stylised indication ‘EU-ORGANIC’, imposing restrictions on labelling and advertising claims in order to promote the “common concept” of organic production, reinforce the risk-based approach and improve ...[+++]controls by aligning the control system to the official EU food and feed control system applying to all foods and feeds, improve the free circulation of organic goods by ensuring that EU rules guarantee the highest standards, reinforce the impartiality of the control system, mutual recognition of standards and reduce the room for control bodies to authorise less strict rules, develop permanent import rules based on direct access for fully compliant products or access based on

They have been paying into the system but have never been officially recognized as Canadian citizens and they cannot receive any benefits as a result.

Official controls shall include the verification of the efficacy of control systems put in place by operators of food and feed businesses.

(24) Whereas a reliable system of controls throughout the Community is a precondition for the smooth functioning of the beef market; whereas it is clear from the investigations by the Unit on Coordination of Fraud Prevention (UCLAF) and the Food and Veterinary Office of the Commission that there are deficiencies in official controls on production of beef in the United Kingdom for dispatch to other Member States and third countries; whereas it is, therefore, necessary to reinforce the system of veterinary checks ...[+++]in order to prevent fraud;

In my view, it is far preferable to have a certain tolerance of this practice under exceptional circumstances in an open system than to prohibit it officially while allowing it to be carried out in a secret, clandestine system often beyond any form of solidarity or control.