Policy paper

Organics: provisional common framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in policy areas covering organic production and certification.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Organic production provisional common framework

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on the principles and overarching standards for organic production and certification. This includes official controls, labelling and trade of organic produce and organic aquaculture.

The provisional common framework has received ministerial approval from all 4 governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

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Published 3 February 2022

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