NEW EU LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR THE ORGANIC AGRICULTURE – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES. A LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2019.1.09Keywords:
organic agriculture, EU Regulation, standards, organic production and labelling, organic marketAbstract
Considering the current European context and changing legislative EU framework we are going to try and emphasize within this article the main challenges and also opportunities driven from this new set of norms set in place by the Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products.References
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