Taiwan: Agricultural Situation. Taiwan's New Regulations for Imported Organic Agricultural Products 2008. GAIN Report Number TW8051

摘要

Taiwan's Council of Agriculture began developing new regulations for Imported Organic Agricultural Product and Organic Agricultural Processed Products in 2007 and will implement them on January 29, 2009. From this date, both domestic and imported raw and processed organic agricultural products are required to include a special approval number issued by the Council of Agriculture (COA) on package labels. Otherwise, the retailer/distributor will be fined for illegitimate labeling of organic claims. The new regulations are anticipated to require longer lead time and additional application/documentation costs for the import of organic food products.