Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 9 May 2017, if compliance by the operator with local authority requirements on fresh water intake and outflows or any other State imposed requirements is mandatory for organic certification. [25188/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Under the governing EU Organic Regulations, there is no specific reference to State-imposed requirements for the purpose of granting organic certification. However, depending on the circumstances, any breach of such requirements may possibly impact on the organic certification of an operator. Such breaches would have to be assessed on a case by case basis by the Organic certification body in the first instance.