Download bio suisse standard 2005 - Organic Rules and Certification

BIO SUISSE STANDARD 2005
APPENDIX 1
PERMITTED INPUTS FOR FERTILIZATION AND SOIL CONDITIONING
For fertilization and soil conditioning, the following inputs are permitted for use in organic agriculture
(the requirements of the directive «nutrients supply» must be met in any case)::
1.







Farm-own production of organic fertilizers
fresh or aerobically rotted animal manure;
liquid manure, after aerobic preparation (with agitation and aeration if possible);
organic garbage and crop residues, aerobically composted;
organic mulch;
green manure crops;
straw;
household waste water is only permitted from the farm itself, and only when mixed with several
times its volume of liquid manure from cattle or pigs, and prepared together with these.
2. Organic fertilizers brought onto the farm from outside
 compost;
 animal manure from outside of the farm and organic waste according to the directive «nutrients
supply»;
 products an by-products of animal origin, such as horn-, hair- and feather-wastes;1
 algal products;
 organic by-products from food processing factories (with no chemical residues);
 sawdust and bark shreds (without chemical treatment)
3. Mineral fertilizers brought onto the farm from outside
 pulverised rock, such as basement rocks, quartz, basalt and powdered clays such as bentonite
and others;
 calcified seaweed;
 limestone derived materials with the slowest possible decomposition (dolomite, mountain
limestone, but no quicklime or slaked lime);
 raw rock phosphate, natural phosphates and basic slag , both with a low content of heavy metals;
 pulverised silicate rocks which contain potassium (feldspars, micas);
 potash-magnesia (patent-potassium), potassium sulphate (but only when soil analyses show up a
potassium deficiency).
1
according to the present regulations of the authorities
4. Substances for activating composts and soils
In order to aid the composting process and activate soil organisms, only methods and substances
shall be used that are based exclusively on organic farming methods. Permitted are:
 plant-based products;
 algal extracts;
 bacterial products;
 bio-dynamic preparations.
5.





Inputs for strengthening plants
plant extracts and products such as infusions and tea;
algal extracts;
pulverised rock, bentonite and other clay minerals;
bio-dynamic products.
to Appendix 1: List of auxiliary inputs of the FiBL (Research Institute for Organic Agriculture):
Part «Permitted fertilizers and trade substrates»*