Seminar “Best Practices for the Implementation of Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) No 2018/848: A Vade Mecum on Official Investigations in Organic Production”

We invite you to take part in online seminar “Best Practices for the Implementation of Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) No 2018/848: A Vade Mecum on Official Investigations in Organic Production”, which will be held in the afternoon on 23 June 2025. 

The aim of the event is to provide practical information on organic production based on the publication “A Vade Mecum on Official Investigations in Organic Products”, which is now available in Ukrainian. The seminar will present an overview of the main provisions of the publication, as well as selected chapters illustrating a practical and systematic approach to the implementation of preventive measures by organic operators and their assessment by control bodies or authorities. Three experts from the European Union and Ukraine will share their experience. 

You can view the seminar programme via the following link. (In Ukrainian) 

Registration for the seminar is available via the following link.  

Working languages: English and Ukrainian (simultaneous interpretation will be provided). 

Duration: 2.5 hours. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants a few days prior to the event. 

The publication serves as a practical tool to support official investigations, which must be conducted when a control body, control authority or competent authority receives substantiated information about the presence of products or substances not authorised for use in organic production, as per Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) No 2018/848. 

The Ukrainian translation of the publication will be available online after the seminar. 

The Ukrainian translation of the publication was made possible with the support of: 

– German-Ukrainian Сooperation in Organic Agriculture project (COA)with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany (BMEL), 
– Switzerland within the framework of the Swiss-Ukrainian Programme “Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine” (QFTP)implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) in partnership with SAFOSO AG (Switzerland). 

The original guide was developed with the financial support of the Government of Germany.