Proceedings concerning administrative offences for natural persons operating in organic farming

Proceedings concerning administrative offences for natural persons are carried out on the basis of a finding that there has been a violation of organic farming rules.

As a natural person, you commit an administrative offence when

1.  you refer to organic production without all the ingredients of the product coming from organic farming and without proper registration and certification of the product;
2. you import a product from a third country and place it on the market as an organic product, but it does not meet the organic farming conditions (it is not certified as an organic product);
3. you fail to comply with an obligation imposed by a special measure by the set deadline;
4.  you use products and substances not permitted in organic farming; 
5.  you do not keep records of organic production (inventories, accounting documents, animal pharmaceutical journal, etc.); 
6.  you do not prepare or keep a description of the economic unit and records of measures taken;
7. you keep the same species of livestock in both organic and non-organic ways, or grow varieties that cannot be easily distinguished in both organic and non-organic ways;
8. you use chemically synthesised allopathic veterinary pharmaceuticals or antibiotics in animal husbandry; 
9. you do not comply with the rules for the transition to organic production (e.g. the transitional period for conventional animals brought to the farm); 
10.  you do not clearly divide the agricultural holding into an organic farm and other operating units, or you do not keep the land, animals and products intended for non-organic production separate from the land, animals and products for organic production; or
11. you fail to comply with any other statutory obligation.

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