Organic Agricultural Products Certification Regulation (B.C. Reg. 200/93). Country/Territory Canada Territorial subdivision British Columbia Document type Regulation Date 1963 (2012) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Agricultural commodities Food quality control/food safety Standards Certification Internal trade Institution Geographical area Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract The present Regulation enacts sections 11 and 12(1) of the Agri-Food Choice and Quality Act. The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a programme to enable persons to be certified if they meet standards for the farming, gathering, processing, packaging, selling or handling of organic food products so that the public can be made aware which food products meet those standards. The text consists of 12 sections as follows: Purpose (1); Definitions (2); Prescribed phrase and symbol (3); Who is eligible to hold a certificate? (4); How to get a certificate (5); Powers of the Administrator (6); Duties of the Administrator (7); Certificate term (8); Certificate conditions (9); Appeals from a decision of a producer certifying agency or trade certifying agency (10); Appeals from a decision of the Administrator (11); Duty of Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia to surrender documents (12). Full text English Website www.qp.gov.bc.ca References - Legislation Implements Agri-Food Choice and Quality Act ([SBC 2000] Chapter 20). Legislation | Canada | 2000 (2007) Keyword: Basic legislation, Agricultural commodities, Certification, Inspection, Offences/penalties, Food quality control/food safety, Packaging/labelling, Standards Source: FAO, FAOLEX