Update to Soil Association Standards for Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Update to Soil Association Standards for Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Soil Association Standards for Great Britain, Organic Standards for Great Britain, the Soil Association Standards for Northern Ireland, and the Organic Standards for Northern Ireland have been updated.
The confirmed names and version numbers of the new standards documents are as follows:
Standards for NI licensees:
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Version 1.2 – Soil Association Organic Standards for Northern Ireland
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Version 1.2 – Organic Standards for Northern Ireland
Standards for GB licensees:
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Version 1.3 – Soil Association Organic Standards for Great Britain
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Version 1.3 – Organic Standards for Great Britain
You can view the standards here.
Please view the summary of change documents:
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Updates across Great Britain and Northern Ireland Standards
Additional guidance has been added for Soil Association Packaging Scope (5.16.1)
Within Organic Food and Drink standards:
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Update made to Permitted additives (6.4.2) table and guidance related to Sourcing Annex Requirements
Please note that amendments to tables only show relevant updated rows.
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Update across Great Britain Food and Drink Standards
PDF version of COIs are now accepted, Defra no longer require a paper copy of COIs.
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Updates across Northern Ireland Standards
On 18 Jan 2023, European Commission updated the implementing regulation (EU) 2021/1165. This has affected:
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Organic Farming and Growing standards
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2.5.2 Permitted fertilisers, soil conditioners and nutrients
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2.6.3 Permitted pesticides and plant protection products
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Organic Feed standards
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9.1.11 Products and substances permitted for use in livestock feed
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10.2.1 Permitted feed additives
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Organic Aquaculture Standards
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13.8.1 Products and substances permitted for use in aquaculture feed
Please note that amendments to tables only show relevant updated rows.
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Soil Association Sourcing Requirement Updated
The Soil Association’s Sourcing Organic Ingredients Annex has been updated to version 1.7.
The main changes to the Sourcing Requirements are within 9.2 Using organic additives and 9.3 Permitted Additives