date:Jun 29, 2012
mported organic products, the system governing the various import schemes was also found to have weaknesses.
Following these findings, the ECA recommended that the European Commission should make changes to rectify the weaknesses.
In Europe, the organic market has rapidly developed and experienced annual growth rates of more than 10 per cent in the last two decades.
The European market for organic food amounts to about 20 billion annually, representing an estimated 1.5 per cent share of th