The production of quality and healthy agricultural products by farmers, through the use of cultivation practices that respect the environment, must be a priority objective of agriculture. modern.

The use of methods which, taking into account the requirements of society, the profitability of cultivation and the protection of the environment, decrease the use of chemicals and allow for the production of high agricultural production quality, is a requirement in the development of agriculture. These objectives can be achieved through integrated management techniques.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, by means of the Orders of 26 July 1983 and 17 November 1989, and the various Autonomous Communities have promoted the application of approximate cultivation techniques. the integrated struggle through the creation of clusters for integrated treatments in agriculture and other types of farmer groups. The fight against pests in these groups by giving priority to environmentally friendly methods, reducing the use of chemical products, has made it possible to acquire the necessary experience and to lay the foundations for production standards that are foreseen in this Royal Decree.

Agricultural production with these techniques is aligned with the general principles of integrated production, since its application implies greater respect for the equilibrium of ecosystems, reduces pollution unnecessary in air, water and soil, and allows agricultural products to have as little as possible of undesirable chemical residues.

Therefore, there is a need to differentiate the agricultural products obtained through integrated production systems, to guarantee their characteristics and to inform the consumer about them, due to their added value in the markets, which advises to regulate the use of the flags-labels or warranty marks-on the products thus obtained.

It is also necessary to regulate the use of guarantee identifications in processed agricultural products obtained under integrated production conditions, thereby fulfilling certain requirements.

In this rule, without prejudice to other provisions that regulate the production, processing, marketing, labelling and control of plant products, the general requirements to be met are laid down. operators who wish to avail themselves of this type of production and make use of the guarantee flag, and the general rules valid for the agricultural holdings concerned.

This Royal Decree specifically regulates the identification of a national guarantee of integrated production, without prejudice to the identification of guarantees that can be established by the Autonomous Communities or by entities. private.

The principles and technical guidelines of the International Organization for Biological Struggle have been taken into account in these general conditions.

For the establishment and development of this type of production, the integrated production groups in agriculture are recognized as an instrument for the promotion of integrated production.

Consequently, it is necessary to create the basis for regulating integrated production and the differentiation of its products at national level under the provisions of Article 149.1.13.a of the Constitution that it attributes to the State competition in the field of bases and coordination of the overall planning of economic activity, as well as to regulate the identification of an integrated national production guarantee.

In the preparation of this provision, the Autonomous Communities and the sectors concerned have been consulted.

This provision has been submitted to the procedure for information in the field of technical standards and regulations and regulations concerning the services of the information society provided for in Directive 98 /34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. The European Parliament and the Council of 22 June, as amended by Directive 98 /48/EC, as well as Royal Decree 1337/1999 of 31 July, which incorporates these Directives into Spanish law.

In its virtue, on the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, with the approval of the Minister of Public Administrations and after deliberation of the Council of Ministers at its meeting of November 15, 2002,

D I S P O N G O:

CHAPTER I

General provisions

Article 1. Object and scope of application.

1. This Royal Decree has as its object:

(a) The establishment of the production standards and general requirements to be met by operators engaged in integrated production systems.

b) The regulation of the use of the guarantee IDs that differentiate these products from the consumer.

c) The recognition of integrated production clusters in agriculture for the promotion of such production.

d) The creation of the National Integrated Production Commission in charge of the integrated production advisory and coordination.

2. The provisions of this provision shall apply to plant products and their processed products.

Article 2. Definitions.

For the purposes of the provisions of this Royal Decree,

following definitions shall apply:

(a) Integrated production: the agricultural systems for the production of plants that use the resources and the natural production mechanisms to the maximum and ensure long-term sustainable agriculture, introducing methods biological and chemical control, and other techniques which make the requirements of society, environmental protection and agricultural productivity compatible, as well as operations carried out for handling, packaging, processing and Labelling of plant products covered by the system.

(b) Marketing: the sale or supply by an operator to another operator, including the making available, storage, exposure for sale or offer of sale of plant products.

(c) Operator: any natural or legal person who obtains, manipulates, produces, packaging, labels, stores or markets plant products under the conditions set out in this provision.

(d) Competent Authority: the body designated by the Autonomous Community for the implementation and development, within its territorial scope, of the provisions laid down in this provision or, where appropriate, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

e) Certification entities: are those entities accredited by the National Accreditation Entity (ENAC) to perform the functions of control and certification, to which the production must be submitted products obtained may be distinguished with an integrated production guarantee identification, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of this Royal Decree or, where appropriate, those accredited by any other body of Signing of the Multilateral Recognition Agreement of the European Cooperation for Accreditation " (EA).

(f) Labelling: all indications, indications, factory or trade identifications, images or signs appearing in packages, documents, signs, labels, rings or collars accompanying or referring to products referred to in this Royal Decree.

g) Integrated production grouping in agriculture: that group of operators constituted under any legal or integrated formula in another grouping previously established and recognised by the competent authority, with the objective of obtaining plant products under integrated production requirements to be marketed.

(h) Competent technical services: natural or legal persons providing technical assistance in integrated production and who have at least one middle or higher degree university in whose work plan studies of his or her academic specialty include agricultural production, or which can accredit knowledge of the same by specific post-graduate courses.

CHAPTER II

Integrated production systems

Article 3. Production and marketing standards.

1. The integrated production system governed by this Royal Decree implies that in the production and marketing of the products referred to in Article 1 (2) the requirements laid down in the general rules of the integrated production of Annex I and, where appropriate, the general rules for integrated production for processing industries in Annex II, as well as the specific technical standards for each crop or group of crops to be established regulentarily.

2. The different stages of the production and marketing process may be carried out by different operators.

The different operators will be able to formalize agreements with each other for the realization of some of the phases of the process, expressly stating in the agreements the submission of the parts to the system of control previewed in the Present Royal Decree.

Article 4. Registration and registration of operators.

1. Operators shall communicate their activity as an integrated production to the competent authorities where they radiate the production areas and their facilities to be entered in the relevant registers.

2. For registration in the register, operators must prove to the competent authority, by prior audit of the certification bodies or entities, that they are in a position to produce or to market according to the systems of integrated production covered by this Royal Decree and, at least, present the following documentation:

(a) In the case of an operator engaged only in the procurement of plant products, a description of the agricultural holding and its facilities and, where appropriate, the handling centres, which shall contain, as minimum, the areas and location of the parcels, warehouses and other facilities of the holding, cultural background of the plots, estimation of the volume of the productions by plots according to crops and the monthly distribution of areas per crop or group of related crops.

b) In the remaining cases of operators, a descriptive memory of their facilities, which will contain, at least, the surfaces and location of the facilities, estimate of the volume of the products to be marketed, system specific handling, processing and packaging of the products, trade marks and channels through which production is marketed under the guarantee identification.

3. The competent authority may cancel the registration in the register referred to in this Article, where it is established that the operator has failed to comply with the rules laid down in this Royal Decree in relation to its activity, without prejudice to the penalties to occur.

Article 5. Obligations of the operators.

Operators will be required to:

a) Allow and collaborate on the controls that, as provided for in this Royal Decree, are carried out on the farms or the activity they develop.

(b) Dispose of the competent technical services responsible for directing and controlling compliance with the integrated production standards applicable in the exercise of the activity concerned. However, operators who credit their qualification in integrated production may direct their activity directly in accordance with the integrated production rules.

c) Foster training in this field of staff in charge of developing integrated production tasks.

(d) Meet the integrated production standards and have an operating logbook where all cultivation operations and practices are recorded, in the case of operators engaged in the production of plant products only, or record of the consignments where the origin, use and destination of the consignments can be verified, in the case of the other operators.

e) Obtain the entire production of the plant product variety by the integrated production system in clearly separated crop units from others that are not subject to the rules of this Royal Decree.

f) Store, manipulate, where appropriate, transform and market separately, in space or in time, as the case may be, the productions obtained under the corresponding integrated production rules of other obtained by different methods.

g) Adopt appropriate measures to ensure that during all stages of production and marketing there can be no replacement of the products of the integrated production by others.

h) Identify the product according to integrated production standards in the production and marketing phases in which they are involved.

i) Make good use of integrated production warranty identification.

(j) to report annually to the certification body or entity, and prior to the date to be determined, its production schedule, detailing it by plots; as well as, periodically, the volumes produced and marketed.

k) Adopt corrective measures to resolve irregularities detected by the control bodies or entities in the production or marketing.

Article 6. Control of integrated production.

1. The control applicable to operators in the exercise of their activity in order to verify compliance with the integrated production rules of Article 3 shall be carried out in such a way as to ensure that those operators comply with at least the following: measures set out in Annex III to this Royal Decree, as well as control plans and protocols for the supervision and implementation of the controls to be established.

2. The bodies or entities carrying out the checks shall at least:

a) Ensure objectivity and impartiality, as well as the effectiveness of controls.

b) Save due secrecy with respect to the information and data obtained in the exercise of their control activities.

c) Vellar by the correct granting of use of warranty IDs to operators.

(d) Require operators to withdraw the guarantee indications to any lot when significant irregularities are found and to establish the necessary corrective measures.

(e) regularly inform the competent authority of the relationship of operators subject to their control and of the volumes produced and marketed by each of them, without prejudice to the immediate updating of such control; relationship if variations occur.

(f) Report, where appropriate, to the relevant competent authority of the irregularities found and of the corrective measures taken, as well as any complaints that have been made.

3. These checks must be carried out at least once a year and physical checks on the holdings and installations must be carried out. Such checks may be carried out without warning.

4. In the exercise of this control, the competent bodies or bodies may:

(a) Access the parcels, premises or facilities, as well as the documents referred to in paragraph (d) of Article 5.

b) Take samples and monitor the exercise of the activity.

c) Adopt provisional measures when they detect irregularities in the production or marketing of the products.

5. Where the stages of the production process are carried out by different operators or where they take place in different Autonomous Communities, the plant products referred to in this provision may only be transported after the production of the operator issuing the goods to the organs or entities involved in the control at the various stages of the production process, being carried out in separate containers or containers by means of transport whose closure prevents replacement of their content and shall be accompanied by a document identifying the body or entity of the control to which the operator is subject, including indications enabling the receiving operator and its control body or entity to determine unequivocally the person responsible for the production and the plant product.

The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply in the event that the control body or entity is the same in two consecutive phases of the production process.

Article 7. Warranty IDs.

1. Products which have been produced in accordance with the integrated production standards set out in this Royal Decree may be distinguished with a guarantee identification consisting of at least the expression "integrated production".

2. The use of the guarantee identification shall be granted by the body or entity designated for that purpose in the rules governing such identification.

3. On the labelling, in addition to the identification of the security, it shall include at least the name or code of the body or entity that has carried out the check, as well as the registration number of that operator or its name.

4. The expression 'integrated production', logo or names, identifications, expressions and signs which may be confused, even if they are to be used, may not be used for the expression 'integrated production'. accompanied by expressions such as "type" and other analogous expressions, other than those established in accordance with the provisions of Chapters III and IV of this Royal Decree.

5. For the purposes of this standard, a product shall be deemed to bear indications referring to the integrated production system where the product is identified by those indications or by the labelling, advertising or commercial documents. suggest to the buyer that the product has been obtained in accordance with the production and marketing standards set out in Article 3.

Article 8. Promotion of integrated production.

1. For the promotion of integrated production, integrated production clusters may be recognised in agriculture.

2. The recognition of the integrated production groupings in agriculture is the responsibility of the competent authority where the group's registered office is located.

3. In order to be recognised, it will be a prerequisite for the competent technical services to be provided, and the status of operators in their statutes is expressed as a condition that operators must comply with the technical instructions provided by those services. to establish in accordance with the rules in force. Such instructions, unless expressly justified, shall be unique to all associates.

4. In order to achieve greater harmonisation in the application of the integrated production rules, these groupings may be grouped into unions under any legal formula. The recognition of the unions shall be the responsibility of the competent authority where the union's registered office is situated.

5. For the purposes of this provision, each production group integrated in agriculture shall be considered as a single operator.

6. Production groups integrated in agriculture and their unions may receive the aid to be provided for in regulation.

CHAPTER III

National Warranty Identification

Article 9. Identification of integrated national production guarantee.

1. The identification of an integrated national production guarantee shall consist of the expression 'integrated production' and the logo which the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall establish.

2. The national guarantee identification may be used in those products which meet the following conditions:

(a) That have been produced subject to the conditions laid down in Chapter II and Annex I, Annex II where applicable, and Annex III to this Royal Decree.

(b) that compliance with these conditions has been controlled at all stages of production by one or more certification bodies as provided for in Article 10.

3. The use of the national guarantee identification shall be granted by the certification body to which the labelling phase is to be controlled.

4. The certification bodies shall communicate to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food any concessions they make for the use of the national integrated production guarantee identification.

Article 10. Certification entities.

1. In order to carry out the checks provided for in Article 9.2.b), certification bodies must be accredited by the National Accreditation Entity (ENAC) or any other accreditation body which is a signatory to the Multilateral Agreement of Recognition of the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA). It shall be necessary for such accreditation to comply with at least the following requirements:

(a) comply with the general criteria contained in European standards for certification and control bodies which carry out product certifications, in particular standards EN 45,011 and EN 45,004, respectively.

(b) Present the entity's control programme, which shall contain a detailed description of the control measures and the precautionary measures that the institution undertakes to impose on the operators subject to its control. Such a programme shall be in accordance with the homogeneous criteria to be established on a proposal from the National Integrated Production Commission.

(c) Credit which has adequate resources, qualified personnel and administrative and technical infrastructure, as well as, where appropriate, experience in control and reliability.

d) Present the procedures that the certification body proposes to comply with in the event of irregularities or infringements, complaints by operators, and information to the competent authority when any of the previous assumptions.

2. The operator may choose the certification body to be responsible for controlling its integrated production activities, among those that have been accredited. The operator shall be responsible for the costs incurred for the control of his activities.

3. In the development of controls, certification bodies shall comply with the provisions of Article 6 and Annex III to this Royal Decree.

4. Certification bodies shall communicate the start of their activity to the competent authorities of the Autonomous Communities in which they are to operate.

5. Agreements may be concluded between the certification bodies and control entities accredited by ENAC or any other accreditation body which is a signatory to the Multilateral Agreement for Recognition of the European Cooperation for Accreditation. (EA), in respect of the EN 45,004 standard, for the completion of all or part of the controls established.

CHAPTER IV

Other warranty indentifications

Article 11. Guarantee IDs of the Autonomous Communities.

1. The Autonomous Communities may establish, in the exercise of their own powers, the identification of an integrated production guarantee, provided that compliance with the provisions of Chapter II of this Royal Decree is guaranteed and, in In particular, compliance with at least the requirements set out in Annex I, as applicable in Annex II and Annex III to this Royal Decree, is required.

2. The Autonomous Communities which establish an identification of their own integrated production guarantee shall communicate it to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food.

Article 12. Private warranty IDs.

1. Private entities or organisations and their associations may establish their own integrated production guarantee identifications, provided that the following requirements are met:

(a) that the requirements, procedures and protocols required for the use of their security identification comply with at least the provisions of Chapter II of this Royal Decree and, in particular, the requirements of Annex I, Annex II, where applicable, and Annex III.

(b) That compliance with those requirements, procedures and protocols has been controlled at all stages of production by one or more certification entities as provided for in Article 10.

(c) complying with the provisions of Article 9 (3) and (4).

2. Prior to the use of private security identification, the requirements, procedures and protocols required for their use shall be submitted for approval to the competent authority of the Autonomous Community. in which it radiuses its registered office, prior to the report of the National Commission of Integrated Production.

3. The Autonomous Communities shall communicate to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food the private integrated production guarantee identifications, the system of which has been approved in accordance with paragraph 2 of the Article.

CHAPTER V

Organs and coordination mechanisms

Article 13. National Integrated Production Commission.

1. The National Commission for Integrated Production is hereby established as a collegiate body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, through the Directorate-General for Agriculture, for the advice and coordination of production integrated.

2. The National Integrated Production Commission shall have the following composition:

a) President: the Director-General of Agriculture.

b) First Vice-President: the Director-General for Rural Development.

c) Second Vice President: The Deputy Director-General for Plant Health.

d) Vocals:

1. A representative of each of the Autonomous Communities who decide to participate in it.

2. Three officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, of which two will be appointed by the General Secretariat of Agriculture and one by the Directorate-General for Rural Development.

3. A representative of the Spanish Food Safety Agency, designated by the President of the Agency.

4. A representative of each of the most representative agricultural professional organizations in

national scope and the Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Spain.

5. Six representatives of integrated production organizations of greater representation among farmers or agricultural production sectors in which integrated production has the greatest implementation, designated by the General Secretariat for Agriculture.

e) Will act as Secretary, with voice and without a vote, an official of the General Subdirectorate of Plant Health appointed by the President.

3. In the event of absence, vacancy or illness, the President shall be replaced by the First Vice-President and shall, in turn, be replaced by the Vice-President.

4. The President may convene a representative of the organization or organizations most representative of other productive sectors. That representative shall participate in the Commission with a voice and vote.

5. Where the President or the Commission considers it appropriate, the advice of persons other than the President or the Commission may be requested in respect of a particular matter with a recognised scientific or technical qualification, as well as the collaboration of entities, associations or groups whose interests may be affected.

At the same time, working groups of experts in the plant health of certain agricultural crops may be set up to assist in the development of the Commission's functions.

Article 14. Functions of the Commission.

1. The National Integrated Production Commission shall have the following functions:

a) Develop and propose guidelines, protocols or, where appropriate, specific technical standards for integrated production to harmonise their implementation, in particular those relating to the criteria to be considered for compliance with the the objectives pursued and the minimum requirements to be met.

b) Report on the rules to be established for integrated production, in particular on the adequacy of the general rules of Annex I and, where appropriate, Annex II to this Royal Decree and those established by the private entities for the use of their own guarantee identifications.

c) Develop a National Control Programme in which the procedures that will complement the requirements set out in Annex III of this Royal Decree are required.

(d) Know the degree of compliance with this program and the incidences produced in the controls carried out, and its consequences.

e) Propose uniform criteria for the correction of violations.

f) Inform, where appropriate, the competent authority of known infringements that have not been sanctioned.

g) Report on how many issues are of interest to this Royal Decree and, in particular, how many measures are considered to be able to improve the regulation, practice and promotion of integrated production.

2. The National Commission of Integrated Production shall be governed by all the provisions of this Royal Decree and in its own rules of operation, by Chapter II of Title II of Law 30/1992 of 26 November, of the Legal Regime of the Public administrations and the Common Administrative Procedure.

Article 15. General Register of Integrated Production.

1. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Agriculture, is hereby established a General Register of Integrated Production of a public and informative nature, which shall collect the data supplied by the Communities. Stand-alone.

2. The Autonomous Communities shall forward annually to the Directorate-General for Agriculture a list of the volumes marketed with the identification of the integrated production guarantee, of the operators registered in their territorial area, with an indication of the identifying data of these, as well as of the certification bodies operating in their territory.

3. Information from the General Register of Integrated Production shall be made available at all times to all Autonomous Communities and interested parties.

4. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall communicate to the competent authority of the Autonomous Communities each year, and at any time, the particulars of the entries in the register.

5. The competent authority which is aware of irregularities found in the performance of the operators or certification bodies shall inform the other Autonomous Communities concerned and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Power.

Additional disposition first. Marketing of the integrated production of other Member States of the European Union and of the EFTA countries, Contracting Parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).

Plant products and their processed products lawfully produced and processed in other Member States of the European Union and the EFTA countries, Contracting Parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), with specific official integrated production regulations, they may be marketed in Spain under the name "integrated production".

In order to avoid confusion in consumers, this name must be supplemented by the express mention of the regulatory legal standard of the country of origin of the product, in such a way as to allow the buyer to know that origin and distinguish it from other products.

Additional provision second. Operation of the National Integrated Production Commission and the General Register of Integrated Production.

The operation of the National Integrated Production Commission and the General Register of Integrated Production will be used with the personal and material resources available in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and shall not entail an increase in the Department's expenditure.

Single transient arrangement. Provisional accreditation of certification entities.

1. The competent authorities may provisionally recognise certification bodies without prior accreditation, for the maximum period of two years, or until they are accredited if the time limit is shorter, if they are deemed to be in accordance with the provisions of the standard EN 45,011.

2. Extensions to provisional recognition, as referred to in the previous paragraph, may be made when the maximum time limit set has been exceeded, the accreditation body adequately justifies that it has not been able to complete the accreditation process.

3. The certification bodies recognised by the Autonomous Communities on the date of entry into force of this Royal Decree shall have two years to comply with the provisions of this Royal Decree.

Final disposition first. Basic character.

The provisions of Chapters I, II and V, as well as in the Annexes, of this Royal Decree shall be of a basic standard in accordance with the provisions of Article 149.1.13.ade of the Constitution, which reserves the State the power of in the field of bases and coordination of the overall planning of economic activity.

Final disposition second. Powers of development.

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is empowered to make, within the scope of his powers, the necessary provisions for the development and application of this Royal Decree and, in particular, to amend the annexes in order to adapt them to new technical and scientific knowledge and advances or to incorporate Community legislation in this field, as well as, where appropriate, to lay down specific technical standards for each crop or Crop groups are required.

Final disposition third. Entry into force.

This Royal Decree shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official Gazette of the State".

Given in Madrid on 20 November 2002.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,

MIGUEL ARIAS CANETE

ANNEX I

General integrated production rules

These general rules define agricultural practices which, under the direction of the competent responsible or technical service, must be complied with by operators without prejudice to the observance of other laws, in particular concerning plant production material, fertilizers, plant health, waste and packaging management, prevention of occupational risks, health and the environment.

The specific technical standards or protocols that may be established for each crop or group of crops in order to supplement these general rules or to set intervals, limits, systems or practices not defined therein, respond to recommendations or principles established in international standards where they exist and in another case to the best possible technique, compatible with integrated production, described in the technical or scientific literature.

Also, the sampling procedures and analytical methods required to perform the determinations set out in these standards must be officially established by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Food or, failing that, internationally accepted and the samples shall be analysed or diagnosed in specialised laboratories recognised by the competent authority.

I. General agronomic aspects

A) Required

a) The timing and intensity of cultural operations should minimize potential environmental impacts.

(b) In annual crops, where possible, a crop rotation programme of at least three sheets must be established. The non-application of the programme should be justified.

c) In perennial crops, the culture system, including the training system, must respect the optimal physiological state of the plants.

(d) In crops without soil, facilities shall be available for the recirculation of the leachate, except for authorization which includes time limits determined for full disposal and provided that it is agronomically

e) inert substrates must be properly recycled, provided it is agronomically advisable.

f) Withdrawal for the recycling or controlled discharge of plastic quilting or plastic covers.

B) Prohibited

a) Abandonment of plastic debris, packaging, and other waste inside or inside the plot.

(b) The burning of plant remains, except where expressly recommended by the competent authority.

II. Soil, field preparation and work

A) Required

a) Maintain and improve soil fertility by:

1. The definition of the optimal level of humus according to the characteristics of the locality and its maintenance by appropriate measures.

2. The maintenance of agro-system biodiversity.

3. The optimization of soil biophysical properties to avoid compaction (p. e. size of aggregates and structural stability, hydraulic conductivity, etc.).

4. Maintenance of soil protection for as long as possible by a cultivated plant cover or not.

5. The minimum physical or chemical disturbance of the soil.

b) Eliminate weeds and plant remains from previous crops in the appropriate manner and in good time with respect to the following crop, with their remains on the soil being able to remain when they do not pose a risk of the transmission of pests or diseases of plants or in conservation agriculture.

(c) The tasks shall be carried out in full respect of the structure of the soil and, if possible, without turning. Runoff and chartering will be avoided. This will also take into account the slope of the soil for proper soil conservation by adapting the dimensions and characteristics of the conservation works (terraces, benches, lomas) in order to avoid erosion phenomena.

B) Prohibited

(a) Disinfection of the soil by chemical treatments, except technically justified and authorised by the relevant official body. Authorities can also be set for a particular zone or region.

b) The systematic use of tools that destroy the soil structure and encourage the formation of labor soil.

III. Seeding/Plantation

A) Required

(a) Employing plant material from officially approved producers and, where appropriate, certificates and the corresponding plant passport.

b) Use properly disinfected seeds when this practice can prevent further illness.

c) Use, if any, resistant or tolerant cultivars to any of the species ' important diseases and adapted to local conditions.

(d) In horticultural crops, sowing or transplantation shall be carried out at least one week after the start of the preceding crop and the preparation of the land.

e) Previously remove all plant material presenting with symptoms of disease or abnormal development.

f) In woody crop plantations, the patterns will be adapted to the soil conditions and will not be sensitive to the usual physiopathies.

g) In established plots of woody crops, to be incorporated into the integrated production program, the incidence of virus or fungal problems must be previously controlled.

h) Planting material, planting density, timing and dose of planting, rotations, planting frame and possibility of association with other crops, will be adapted to local conditions.

B) Prohibited

(a) In the case of low-coat crops, the association of crops in the same greenhouse, unless such association presents agronomically favourable effects.

b) The use of patterns, graft-pattern combinations or varieties especially sensitive to certain diseases of particular incidence or relevance.

c) The association of different species of woody crops, when they are incompatible with the requirements of integrated production.

IV. Fertilisation and amendments

A) Required

(a) The supply of nutrients will be mainly done through the soil.

b) For macronutrients, a fertilisation programme shall be carried out and implemented for each crop and cultivation unit and a general fertilisation programme for the whole rotation, enhancing the contribution of natural fertilizers and reducing the synthesis chemicals.

In the programming, it should be noted that fertilizers from outside (water, organic matter, direct fertilisation) must compensate for crop extraction and technical losses.

The basis for estimating the needs of macronutrients, except for nitrogen, will be the physical-chemical analysis of the soil, which will be performed when the plot is integrated into the integrated production system and, at least, one every five years. The program will determine the time and form of proper application to minimize leaching, erosion, etc.

(c) Where organic matter or other materials with fertilizer value are provided, the contribution shall contain the minimum quantity of heavy metals, pathogens or other toxic products which is technically possible, without exceeding the limits legal. It shall be mandatory at least to maintain the soil organic matter level.

(d) For nitrogen, the maximum amount of nitrogen applied, and indicative of the timing of each application, must be defined for each crop and depending on the type of soil (texture and organic matter content). and fertilizer formula.

e) The trace elements will only be applied when a previous analysis determines their insufficiency.

(f) The necessary amendments must be made whenever the soil pH is substantially apart from the value accepted as optimal for the crop, or when the physical or chemical characteristics of the soil so advise. Purines and other semi-liquid waste from livestock holdings to the soil shall be treated in advance by any or more of the known systems.

g) An analytical monitoring of the crop (leaves, fruits, etc.) shall be carried out to verify that the fertilisation programme adopted is the appropriate one or, in another case, for its correction.

B) Prohibited

(a) Overcome the maximum tolerable quantity per hectare per year of total nitrogen, as well as the limits to be fixed for heavy metals, pathogens and other toxic products.

b) Make nitric nitrogen applications on the margins of the lind plots to water streams.

V. Pruning

A) Required

(a) Pruning shall be carried out with a technical approach, taking into account the fundamental principles governing such practice, in order to maximise their effectiveness and profitability.

(b) The woody crop pruning system shall respect the optimal physiological state of the plant, allow good aeration and penetration of light and treatments, and maintain an appropriate leaf/wood ratio.

c) The excess vigor will be corrected by cultural practices, in addition to pruning.

d) Pruning in green will be done with cutting instruments (scissors, knives, etc.).

e) In the performance of pruning, the cutting instruments must be disinfected when changing the plot or variety.

B) Prohibited

a) Uncontrolled quema of pruning debris.

b) Abandonment of the pruning remains on the plot, except cut or crushed, by disadvising their incorporation into the land through labors.

VI. Irrigation

A) Required

(a) Dispose of the analytical characteristics of the water quality of irrigation (chemical and bacteriological), in order to make a decision on their use.

b) Take the necessary steps to avoid water losses.

(c) The annual volumes required by the calculation of the needs of the crop shall be established, based on local evapotranspiration data calculated using the nearest meteorological station data.

d) The maximum volumes of each irrigation shall be established according to the root depth, water status and physical characteristics of the soil. From the intolerable conductivity values to be established for each crop, a complementary wash fraction shall be used at the normal dose of irrigation.

e) For the scheduling of the waterings, technically accepted methods will be followed.

f) The irrigation system must be designed for each plot.

g) Use of irrigation techniques to ensure greater efficiency in the use of water and the optimization of water resources, and for this to be taken into account:

1. º In the irrigation by gravity or flood, the length of the grooves or the planks and their maximum slope shall be established according to the necessary volume of irrigation and the hydraulic and permeability conditions of the terrain.

2. In pressure irrigation, the value of the coefficient of uniformity (CU) shall be between the values established according to the separation between the emitters and the slope of the land.

h) The applied irrigation water must be recorded. In the event that such registration is not possible, an estimate of the registration shall be made.

B) Prohibited

a) Using wastewater without prior debugging.

b) Use of water characterized by parameters of intolerable quality for the crop, soil or public health.

VII. Integrated control

A) Required

a) In the control of pests and diseases, biological, biotechnological, cultural, physical and genetic methods will be put before chemical methods.

b) The estimation of the risk in each plot will be done through evaluations of the population levels, the development status of the pests and the useful fauna, the phenology of the crop and the climatic conditions. In the case of crops of an extensive nature, it may be established that the risk estimate is carried out in homogeneous territorial units larger than that of the plot.

c) The application of direct pest control measures shall only be carried out when the population levels or the environmental conditions exceed the intervention thresholds and, in the case of diseases, when the estimate of the Please indicate this.

d) In the event of a need for chemical intervention, the active substances to be used shall be selected according to the criteria of least danger to humans, livestock and the environment and provide effective control. of the plague, the pathogen or the weed. In any case, plant protection products registered in the Register of Plant Health Products and Material may only be used and expressly approved for the cultivation in which they are applied.

e) The presence of waste should be minimised by the maximum possible extension of the safety deadlines.

(f) Auxiliary fauna should be protected in general and in particular at least two species whose protection and increase in their populations is considered a priority for each crop.

g) weeds will be controlled, wherever possible, with mechanical, biological or those that offer the lowest risk of CO2 emissions. Where the application of herbicides is necessary, it shall be carried out by means of the techniques recommended on the product label. Approved authorised active substances shall be used with the same criteria for plant protection products.

h) In the case of chemical applications, the applicator must be specifically qualified.

(i) The machinery used in the application of plant protection products, herbicides, foliar subscribers, etc., must be in the appropriate state of operation.

j) The machinery used in plant protection treatments shall be subject to periodic review and calibration.

The review shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions in force in force at least once every four years in an official or recognised centre and each year by the producer.

k) The maximum volumes of broth and air flow in plant protection treatments shall be in accordance with the precise parameters, taking into account the phenological state of the crop for maximum efficacy at the lowest dose.

(l) In addition to the rules laid down here, in any case the "Principles of good plant health practices" laid down by the European and Mediterranean Organisation for the Protection of Plants (OEPPs) and the Directives of that organisation on good plant health practice for each crop where these Directives exist.

B) Prohibited

a) Using treatment calendars.

b) Abandon plant protection before the end of the growing cycle of cultivation.

c) In horticulture, use of herbicides within the greenhouse once the crop is implanted.

d) Use of residual herbicides in sandy soils.

e) The use of non-selective, long-persistence, high volatility, leaching or other negative features.

f) The use of plant protection products on the margins of water streams.

g) Applications of plant protection products under meteorological conditions.

VIII. Collection

A) Required

(a) The collection shall be carried out on appropriate dates and conditions to avoid injury to plant products that reduce their quality and lead to infections of rot-causing pathogens.

(b) Plant products presenting symptoms with the presence of pathogens causing rottenness shall be removed.

(c) Plant products shall be collected in a state of maturity that allows for the achievement of commercial quality requirements.

(d) The products collected, up to and including not sent to the handling warehouse, shall be placed indoors or under conditions which prevent the direct incidence of the atmospheric agents and in a place with maximum ventilation.

e) Samples will be taken in the collection and/or processing period to analyse the possible presence of residues of plant protection products and to ensure that only the selected active substances have been used in the integrated protection strategy, which complies with the requirements of the Spanish legislation in relation to the maximum residue limits for plant protection products.

(f) For productions directed to other markets other than the national market, it shall be verified that they comply with the legislation established at the place of destination in respect of the waste content.

B) Prohibited

(a) Carry out the collection when the plant products are wet, except express authorisation from the competent authority based on adverse weather conditions.

b) Abandon the destruction on the plot if their presence poses a risk to the spread of pests or diseases of the plants.

IX. Post-collection treatments

A) Required

(a) They shall only be allowed for crops intended for prolonged storage or for which it is technically justified. Physical or natural products shall be preferred to synthetic products.

(b) In the treatment with synthetic chemicals, those with a more favourable toxicological profile and whose maximum residue limits are harmonised at Community level shall be used among the authorised chemical products.

B) Prohibited

The use of non-potable water washing.

X. Conservation

A) Required

a) Conservation methods that maintain high internal and external quality.

(b) Quality should be monitored regularly and, specifically, prior to placing on the market, taking into account aspects of sampling, type of determination and residue limits to ensure the safety of the consumer.

c) The records for each camera must be kept.

XI. Storage

A) Required

a) Storage should be carried out with procedures to ensure the best possible quality of products.

b) Cleaning, disinfection and control of the parasites of the storage places so that no contamination of the products occurs.

c) Products from integrated production cultivation of the rest of conventional products should be clearly separated from the warehouses.

B) Prohibited

Use of chemical synthesis products for pest and parasite pest control, except for cases that are technically justified and approved by the competent authority.

XII. Packaging

A) Required

(a) All machines, containers, transport elements, provisional packaging and storage places must meet the following conditions:

1.a Do not transmit to products with which toxic substances come into contact or which can contaminate or cause harmful chemical reactions.

2.a Do not alter the composition characteristics and organoleptic characters of the products.

3.a Cleaning will be done with authorized methods and products, as well as rodent and insect control.

b) Packaging operations must be performed by complete series, physically separated or at the time of conventional product operations.

(c) Those operators who carry out integrated and conventional production products must notify the control body or entity in advance of the start of the operations of the integrated production products.

ANNEX II

General integrated production rules for transformation industries

These general rules define the practices of handling, processing and packaging which, under the duly trained competent technical management, must be met by operators in their processing facilities and processes. plant products and which should be considered in the specific technical standards of each processed product.

The protocols which may be established for each product produced in order to supplement these general rules or their specific rules for setting intervals, limits, systems or practices not defined therein, will respond to recommendations or principles set out in international standards where they exist and, in another case, the best possible technique, compatible with integrated production, described in the technical or scientific literature.

Also, the sampling procedures and analytical methods required to carry out the determinations set out in these standards shall be officially approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or, failing this, those accepted internationally and samples shall be analysed or diagnosed in specialised laboratories recognised by the competent authority.

I. PROCESS FOR TRANSPORTING PLANT PRODUCTS, HANDLING, MILLING AND PACKAGING

Required

Application of methods that allow the integrity of the plant product to remain intact and ensure its respiration, if it favors the preservation of the organoleptic characteristics.

1. Transport of plant product and containers

Required

(a) The receptacles and containers of the vehicles used to transport the plant products must be found clean and under appropriate maintenance conditions in order to protect from contamination and in such a way that allow proper cleaning or disinfection.

(b) Where receptacles of vehicles or containers have been used for the transport of another load other than plant products or for the transport of different foodstuffs, a cleaning must be carried out. effective among the loads to avoid the risk of contamination.

2. Reception of plant product and facilities

Required

(a) Declaration of responsibility of the farmer for the identification of the fruits from parcels under integrated production.

(b) Registration of consignments entering, including: product, quantity, unit of cultivation with homogeneous treatment of origin.

(c) Vehicles arriving at the premises must be in adequate hygiene conditions and loaded exclusively with plant products.

(d) Visual inspection of consignments of plant products at reception, establishing a system of verification of the quality of the incoming products.

An incident record will exist in case of non-compliance. Items that do not meet the above requirements should be no longer considered as integrated production.

e) Sample sampling of the systematized product for the performance of quality analytical determinations.

(f) No chemicals or waste should be stored in the reception area of plant products g) Real, defined and signalised separation of the receptive plant products from integrated production.

h) Permanent click on the receiving zones.

i) Use of conveyor belts provided with food quality bands.

j) The conditioning techniques shall tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the plant product, as well as environmental compliance.

k) The manoeuvring areas of the vehicles shall be paved, shall have sufficient amplitude for loading and unloading and with the evacuation of stormwater.

l) Download docks shall be independent and signposted for integrated production products and with platforms to adapt their height to the vehicle box.

3. Plant product conditioning, weighing, sampling and quality control

Required

(a) Storage techniques and facilities shall tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the plant product.

(b) The waste disposal vessels shall be exclusive for this purpose and shall be cleaned periodically, and a cleaning plan shall be established for this purpose.

(c) Processing and product processing techniques and facilities shall tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the plant product.

(d) The items to be received will have quality control, keeping traceability through records and representative sample sampling procedures and including the actions to be taken at different levels. the conditions of the specific product, indicating the minimum analytical determinations to be carried out and the acceptance rates thereof.

4. Storage of the plant product and facilities

Required

(a) The techniques of storage, packaging and transport of plant products shall tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the specific product.

(b) The disposal of the waste shall be carried out in containers exclusive to this purpose, which shall be cleaned periodically, and a cleaning plan shall be established for this purpose.

5. Process for the processing and processing of the plant product

Required

(a) The techniques and facilities for processing and manufacturing of products shall tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the plant product.

(b) All plant products used in the manufacture of the processed product must have fulfilled the conditions of this Royal Decree.

(c) Any treatments and adjuvants used shall be authorised and included in the relevant specific technical standards.

6. Storage, packaging and transport of processed products

Required

(a) The techniques of storage, packaging and transport of elaborate products will tend to maintain the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the product.

(b) The use of conservation treatments should be appropriate to the situation and destination of the product, mainly for products in which prolonged storage is carried out.

c) Conservation treatments should be authorized. Methods shall be used that have the least possible toxicity and preferably physical or natural products, rather than synthesis.

II. IDENTIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY OF THE PROVENANCE OF PLANT PRODUCTS AND SECONDARY OR PROCESSED PRODUCTS

A) Required

(a) In each reception and/or handling centre there must be an entry control albaran, in which the product, quantity, parcel of origin, unit of cultivation with homogeneous treatment and date of entry, signed by the person performing the delivery.

(b) Companies or processing centres which do not have the full production of the crop under control shall also have to comply with the following requirements:

1. A documented and implanted system of identification and traceability of products must exist to ensure separation, from exploitation to the delivery of the product made to the customer.

2. The time interval during which each type of product is handled must be clearly defined, which must be known to all personnel involved in the process.

3. The handling lines must be thoroughly cleaned of product of uncontrolled origin before proceeding to the handling of the product covered by this standard.

(c) Products covered by this standard shall be identified and processed at any time in the technical, administrative and marketing process as a product other than the other products handled by the company.

B) Prohibited

They may not be marketed as products covered by this standard from crop units that do not comply with the provisions of this Royal Decree in all their production.

III. GENERAL INSTALLATION

1. Characteristics of the materials

A) Required

(a) All materials used on the premises must be suitable for food use, adapting to the different specifications and requirements according to the Spanish Food Code and current regulations.

(b) The authorised polymeric materials shall be harmless and must not transmit to the products manufactured or processed harmful properties or change their organoleptic characteristics.

B) Prohibited

All specified in the Spanish Food Code (article 2.04.03) and current regulations, such as chromed iron in drinking water facilities, lead and welds with lead-to-lead alloys.

2. Constructive, design and maintenance features

A) Required

a) All surfaces in direct contact with the products must be easily accessible or removable for checking their cleaning status.

(b) The facilities shall be in good conservation status by appropriate maintenance.

(c) The extraction, packaging and handling area must be perfectly clean and constructed in such a way as to allow proper hygiene (plied walls, drains, etc.).

d) voids and windows shall be avoided or elements to prevent the entry of insects shall be installed.

e) All facilities must have adequate, natural or mechanical ventilation.

f) The premises where the products are circulated must be sufficiently illuminated by natural or artificial means.

g) Fluorescent tubes or lamps shall be protected by means of adequate means to prevent the possible fall of crystals in the event of breakage and their attachment to the ceiling or walls shall be such as to facilitate their cleaning and avoid the accumulation of dust.

h) The drainage systems will be adequate.

i) In the case of sinkholes, the means shall be available to allow the evacuation of the balding or cleaning waters. These sinks will be provided with the appropriate devices to prevent backsliding.

(j) Different areas for the storage of empty products and containers must exist.

k) Storage areas will be kept tidy and clean.

l) Storage of waste materials in the handling area will be avoided.

m) Chemicals must be stored in a place that can be closed and properly signposted. Access to the place of storage of chemicals as well as the handling of chemicals may only be carried out by the personnel designated by the company.

n) The stored chemicals will be correctly labelled and authorised for use in the food industry.) The company will have a supply of chlorinated drinking water (or any other system of purification and disinfection authorised by the competent health administration) used for direct contact with the products (washing, processing, refrigeration, or humidification of the product) or with any surface in contact with these.

o) Intermediate water reservoirs should be cleaned and disinfected periodically.

B) Prohibited

The use of equipment with cracks, stings or dead zones in which substances or products manufactured to which the cleaning solutions do not arrive. No screws or fillings shall also be used in the areas in contact with the product produced.

IV. EQUIPMENT

Required

(a) Companies or processing centres must establish and carry out the maintenance of equipment to ensure their proper functioning and take the necessary measures to avoid the contact of products with chemical substances or foreign objects (protectors, trays, etc.).

b) The disposal of equipment should allow for proper maintenance and cleaning, in line with good hygiene practices.

c) The work surfaces will be maintained in good condition and will be refreshed as needed.

(d) Diesel trucks shall be used exclusively outside the warehouse (e). Machines and tools must be used in good condition, safe and with adequate means of protection (guards, safety devices, etc.). etc.). They must also be stored in a suitable location.

ANNEX III

Minimum control requirements for operators

1. The production must be carried out in cultivation units which are clearly separated from any other growing unit in which it is not produced in accordance with the rules of this provision. During handling, packaging and labelling, products must be clearly separated from those obtained by other production systems.

2. At the start of the application of the control system, the operator shall:

(a) Make a complete description of the cultivation unit, the production plots and, where appropriate, the facilities where certain handling, packaging and labelling operations are carried out.

(b) Determine all the specific measures to be taken in its cultivation unit and facilities to ensure compliance with the provisions of this provision.

(c) Documenting the date on which they were last applied in the production plots of products whose use is incompatible with the provisions of the protocols or the specific technical standards.

d) Take the commitment of the operator to carry out its activities in accordance with the provisions of the protocols or specific technical standards and to accept, in the event of an infringement, the implementation of the corrective measures corresponding.

The control body or entity shall check in its first inspection that the operator has performed all of the above at this point.

3. Prior to the date fixed by the competent authority, the operator shall notify the control body or entity concerned annually of its action programme, detailing it by parcel, where appropriate.

4. An operator shall keep a record by means of annotations and documents which enable the control body or entity to locate the origin, nature and quantities of all raw materials acquired, and to know the use which has been made. (a) the fact that they have been made; in addition, a record of the nature, quantities and recipients of all agricultural products sold shall be taken. Quantities shall be globalized per day in the case of direct sales to the final consumer.

5. Verification visits shall verify that the raw materials and means of production stored by the operators correspond to those permitted in protocols or in the specific technical standards.

6. In addition to unannounced inspection visits, the control body or entity shall carry out, at least once a year, a physical control of the unit. In accordance with this provision, samples may be taken with a view to the search for unauthorised products. In any case, such samples shall be taken when there is a presumption that an unauthorised product has been used.

After each visit, an inspection report shall be issued, which shall also be signed, where appropriate, by the technical officer of the holding or controlled installation.

7. The operator must allow the control body or entity access to the storage and production premises, for the inspection, and to the parcels, as well as to the records and corresponding supporting documents and shall provide the entity with the whole information required for inspection.

8. Plant products may only be transported to other units of the process, both wholesale and retail, in separate containers or containers by means of a transport system whose closure prevents the replacement of its contents and which is provided with a label in which they are mentioned, without prejudice to any other legally required indication:

(a) The name and address of the person responsible for the production of the product or, if another seller is mentioned, an indication that enables the receiving unit and the control body or entity to determine in a manner Who is the person responsible for the production.

b) The product name and a reference to the production system.