In the autumn session, the Russian State Duma will discuss a bill on the production of organic products as it was reported by Shkolkina Nadezhda, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Agriculture, commenting on the approval of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Government Standard (or National Standard) R56508-2015 “Organic production. Rules of production, storage, transport. ”
“One of the main tasks of the Government Standard is the establishment of common rules for the production and turnover of organic products throughout the Russian Federation. Correspondence of Russian production and certification of organic products to the international practice will create conditions for fair competition of domestic organic products with imported products, as well as the access of Russian organic products to foreign markets “, – said Shkolkina.
The Government Standard defines terms: “labeling”, “organic”, “organic production”, “processing”, “products produced from GMOs”, etc. The Standard will become effective from January 1, 2016.