Control arrangements
1. The full description of the unit referred to in Article 63(1)(a) shall:
(a)
be drawn up even where the operator limits his activity to the collection of wild plants;
(b)
indicate the storage and production premises and land parcels and/or collection areas and, where applicable, premises where certain processing and/or packaging operations take place; and
(c)
specify the date of the last application on the parcels and/or collection areas concerned of products, the use of which is not compatible with the organic production rules.
2. In case of collection of wild plants, the practical measures referred to in Article 63(1)(b) shall include any guarantees given by third parties which the operator can provide to ensure that the provisions of Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 are complied with.
Communications
Each year, before the date indicated by the control authority or control body, the operator shall notify the control authority or control body of its schedule of production of crop products, giving a breakdown by parcel.
Plant production records
Plant production records shall be compiled in the form of a register and kept available to the control authorities or bodies at all times at the premises of the holding. In addition to Article 71 such records shall provide at least the following information:
(a)
as regards the use of fertiliser: date of application, type and amount of fertiliser, parcels concerned;
(b)
as regards the use of plant protection products: reason and date of treatment, type of product, method of treatment;
(c)
as regards purchase of farm inputs: date, type and amount of purchased product;
(d)
as regards harvest: date, type and amount of organic or in conversion crop production.
Several production units run by the same operator
Where an operator runs several production units in the same area, the units producing non-organic crops, together with storage premises for farm input products shall also be subject to the general and the specific control requirements laid down in Chapter 1 and this Chapter of this Title.
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