An administrator that only provides benchmarks determined by the application of a formula using input data contributed entirely and directly by regulated venues, approved publication arrangements or reporting mechanisms, energy exchanges or emission allowance auctions and/or an administrator that provides only noncritical benchmarks should be registered with, and supervised by, the competent authority.

The Committee points out that Article 18 must state clearly that evaluating the suitability of the benchmark proposed for the consumer is mandatory (as required by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive); should it not be suitable, the body subject to oversight must propose a different, more appropriate benchmark.

For the purpose of this Regulation, a product shall be regarded as bearing indications referring to the organic production method, where, in the labelling, advertising material or commercial documents, such a product, its ingredients or feed materials are described by the indication in use in each Member State, suggesting to the purchaser that the product, its ingredients or feed materials have been obtained in accordance with the rules of production laid down in Article 6 and in particular the following terms or their usual derivatives (such as bio, eco etc.) or diminutives, alone or combined, u ...[+++]nless such terms are not applied to agricultural products in foodstuffs or feedingstuffs or clearly have no connection with the method of production:

For the purposes of this Regulation a product shall be regarded as bearing indications referring to organic production methods where, in the labelling, advertising material or commercial documents, such a product or its ingredients is described by the indications in use in each Member State suggesting to the purchaser that the product or its ingredients have been obtained in accordance with the rules of production laid down in Articles 6 and 7 and in particular the following terms, unless such terms are not applied to agricultural products in foodstuffs or clearly have no connection with the method of production:

Whereas organic production methods constitute a specific form of production at farm level; whereas, consequently, it should be provided that, on the labelling of processed products, indications referring to organic production methods should relate to the ingredients obtained by such methods;

A product, its ingredients or raw materials for animal feed are considered to bear indications referring to organic production if the labelling, advertising or trade documents for them describe them by means of the indications used in the Member State concerned, thus suggesting to purchasers that they have been obtained in accordance with the rules of production set out in the Regulation.