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The measure affects industries and ecological operators and aims to promote organic production in the archipelago.
The Canarian Institute of Food Quality (ICCA), reduce to a single rate registration in the Register of Organic Production de Canarias (ROPE) for operators and processing industries, packaging and marketing of organic products that fall under more than one activity covered by such registration.
This initiative, that the budgets of the Autonomous Community comes after an amendment to the exercise 2017, supposed industries and organic operators registered more than once in the ROPE, because they perform more than one activity -can be, for example, producers and marketers at the same time product Greenest, only make payment of the higher rate.
The director of ICCA, Jose Diaz-Flores, It explained that this action reduces the costs of this activity, which will contribute to the promotion of organic production in the archipelago.
In addition to this action, ICCA, to the growth experienced by the sector and the number of operators currently listed in the register, and in order to encourage this activity, simplify administrative procedures for managing the ROPE and incorporate changes in the organization of annual inspections conducted ICCA, grouping the various controls to which it is subjected an operator- by appear more than once in the ROPE to perform more than one activity in organic production- in one.
Such measures also respond to requests made by organic operators, through Island Tables, They are requesting the removal of the different rates of enrollment and renewal that applied so far.
organic production
Organic farming is regulated by European legislation, the EC Regulation 834/2007 production and labeling of organic products, whose implementing provisions (including the control system) they are set by the EC Regulation 889/2008.
This control is exercised in the Canary Islands by the ICCA, competent authority in the control and certification of foodstuffs of agricultural origin obtained in the Canary Islands, or whose last operation carried out by an established green industry in the Canary Islands.
Also it corresponds to the ICCA Registry management Organic Production Operators Canary Islands (ROPE), in which they must apply for registration those operators, natural or legal persons, who will produce, to elaborate, import or export to market, agricultural origin foods that have this stamp.
The ICCA also develops actions to promote and promotion of the products covered by this distinctive, besides training activities in organic production techniques among farmers and technicians.