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    • Amendments to the documentation and/or conditions of use of a registered plant protection product
    • Application for de minimis aid in the measure “Aid for the production and use of quality seed”
    • Application for the granting of breeder's rights
    • Application for the inclusion of a variety in the Latvian Catalogue of Plant Varieties
    • Authorisation for extension of the application of a registered plant protection product
    • Authorisation for labelling of wood and wood packaging material prior to heat treatment
    • Authorisation for marketing of a registered fertiliser and substrate if its quality does not correspond to the indicators declared in the register
    • Authorisation for parallel trade of a plant protection product
    • Authorisation for printing plant passport
    • Authorisation for restricted and controlled use of an unregistered plant protection product
    • Authorisation for testing and registration of the relevant lot of the imported fertiliser and substrate
    • Authorisation for the certification of the process of heat treatment of wood and wood packaging material
    • Authorisation for the import and marketing of a specific lot of a registered fertiliser
    • Authorisation for the import or marketing of a fertiliser and substrate not referred to in regulatory enactments
    • Authorisation for the import or movement of harmful organisms, plants and plant products intended for experimental or scientific purposes and varietal selection
    • Authorisation for the introduction of a fertiliser and substrate for testing and registration
    • Authorisation for the placing on the market and use of a plant protection product
    • Authorisation for the training of users, user operators, sellers and consultants of plant protection products
    • Authorisation for the use of a registered plant protection product for unregistered use in studies and experiments
    • Authorisation for the use of an unregistered plant protection product in studies and experiments
    • Authorisation for the use of seed and propagating material of conventional origin in organic farming
    • Authorisation for use of plant passport and manufacture of plant passport
    • Authorisation of imports of unregistered fertiliser for efficacy trials and studies
    • Average seed sampling, analysis and labelling
    • Cancellation of registration of a plant protection product
    • Certificate for carrying out inspections of plant protection products
    • Certificate for testing the effectiveness of plant protection products
    • Certificate for the operation of plant protection products
    • Change of the holder of the registration certificate for a plant protection product
    • Declaration on phytosanitary control
    • Extension of the marketing period for a plant protection product expiring
    • Inclusion of a fertiliser and substrate in the list of fertilisers for organic farming
    • Inclusion of a variety in the list of varieties of fruit trees and berry species or removal from the list
    • Inclusion of the live organism in the Register of Plant Protection Products
    • Issue of labels certifying the inspection of plant protection products to the performer of tests
    • Laboratory analysis of samples of plants, plant products, soil and plant pests
    • Notification of areas where Sosnovska hogweed is growing
    • Notification of fertiliser and substrate
    • Overview of the proliferation of plant protection products
    • Permit for placing on the market of seed of varieties not yet included in the Latvian Catalogue of Plant Varieties
    • Phytosanitary certificate
    • Pre-export certificate
    • Recognition of plant protection plant inspection carried out in another Member State of the European Union
    • Registration in the official register of professional operators or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the register of collectors of vegetable varieties, amendment or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the register of integrated farming of agricultural products or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the Register of Seed Growers and Seed Traders, making or removing amendments from the Register
    • Registration of a Plant Variety License Agreement
    • Registration of fertiliser and substrate
    • Re-inclusion of the living organism in the Register of Plant Protection Products
    • Renewal of authorisation for the placing on the market and use of a plant protection product
    • Reporting of fertilisers and substrates produced and imported for marketing
    • Sampling of soil, plants and plant products for the determination of the presence of active substances of plant protection products
    • Special permit (licence) for the distribution of plant protection products
    • Submission of an application regarding the register of a fertiliser labelled “EC fertiliser”
    • Submission of information on available organic seed and propagating material
    • Submission of information on the products sold (explosives precursors)
    • Submission of information on the spread of Sosnovska hogweed in his or her own property or legal possession
    • Submission of information regarding the marketing sites of fertilisers (explosives precursors)
    • Summary of Fertilisation Plans for Cultivated Plants
    • Viewing the growing field
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Published: 24.02.2022.

Laws

  • On Agriculture and Rural Development

Cabinet regulations

  • Cabinet Regulation No. 485 Adopted 26 May 2009 Procedure for the Supervision and Control of Organic Farming

European Union regulations

  • Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91

  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 of 5 September 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products with regard to organic production, labelling and control

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