About OrganicExportInfo

Exporting certified organic food is not one regulatory problem but two. You have to be organic under your own country's rules, and you have to be organic under the rules of the country you are selling into. The second is where consignments are lost, and it is what this site is about.

What each country page covers

Every country page uses the same five headings so that two markets can be compared side by side:

1. Mandatory organic standards and labels — the governing regulation, the official logo, the protected terms, and the organic-content thresholds that decide what may be called organic
2. Important voluntary standards and labels — private schemes with no legal standing that nonetheless function as the commercial entry ticket in many markets
3. Approved certification and control bodies — who is entitled to certify for that market, and where the official list is published
4. Import requirements — the documentation each consignment needs, the recognition or equivalence arrangements in force, and their limits
5. Further information — annotated links to the primary sources

How the summaries are compiled

Each page is written from the published output of the competent authority for that market — the regulation or standard itself where it is public, the authority's own guidance for exporters and importers, and its official lists of recognised countries, arrangements and control bodies. Where an authority's guidance and its underlying legal text disagree, the page says so.

Summaries are written from those sources, not copied from them. Where a specific figure, date or requirement matters, the source is linked so you can read it directly.

Pages carry a review date. A page reviewed some time ago may have been overtaken — this is a field where deadlines are extended, arrangements lapse and implementing rules are replaced with little notice.

What this site is not

• Not legal or regulatory advice. It is general orientation. Decisions about a specific consignment should be taken with your certification body and, where necessary, the competent authority in the destination market.
• Not a substitute for the primary sources. Official lists of recognised control bodies change continually; only the live list is authoritative.
• Not exhaustive. Organic rules sit on top of ordinary food-safety, veterinary, phytosanitary, customs and labelling requirements, which these pages do not cover.
• Not a certification body, and not a broker. No certification, inspection or consultancy service is offered here, and there is nothing to buy.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so — corrections are welcome and are the fastest way to make the site more useful. Use the contact page, and where you can, include the source that shows the current position.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-06