Glossary of the food sector

Operator (GMO traceability)

A natural or legal person who places a product on the market, as well as any natural or legal person to whom a product placed on the market in the Community, whether from a Member State or a third country, is supplied, at any stage of the production and distribution chain, excluding the final consumer.

— Source: Regulation (EC) 1830/2003, Art. 3(5)

Organic fertilizers and soil improvers

Materials of animal origin used, separately or in combination, to preserve or improve plant nutrition as well as the physical and chemical properties of soils and their biological activity; they may include manure, non-mineralized guano, digestive tract contents, compost, and digestion residues.

— Source: Regulation (EC) 1069/2009, Art. 3(22)

Organic product

A product resulting from organic production, other than a product obtained during the conversion period referred to in Article 10 [of Regulation (EU) 2018/848, Editor's note]. Products obtained from hunting or fishing of wild animals are not considered organic products.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2018/848, Art. 3(2)

Organic production

The use, including during the conversion period referred to in Article 10 [of Regulation (EU) 2018/848, Editor's note], of production methods that comply with this Regulation at all stages of production, preparation, and distribution.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2018/848, Art. 3(1)

Other objects

Materials or objects, excluding plants and plant products, capable of containing or spreading harmful organisms, including soil or growing media.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, Art. 2(5)

Other type of substance

A substance other than a nutritional substance that has a nutritional or physiological effect.

—Source: Reg. (EC) 1924/2006, Art. 2(2)(3)