China: Organic Product Certification Administrative Measures Amended

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   CH2022-0132

The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently amended the existing Administrative Measures for Organic Product Certification which was enforced on April 1, 2014. The amended Measures, which took effect on November 1, 2022, have not changed the process of the current organic product certification, but have made changes to the regulatory agencies following a government re-organization program. These changes took effective on November 1, 2022.

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