SEEDS AND PLANTING MATERIALS

• Use of genetically modified seeds and transgenic plants is prohibited.
• Use of hybrid seeds in cereal production (with the exception of maize) is no longer permitted.
• It is mandatory for the planting material of vegetable and herb production as well as vegetative propagating material in top-fruit and soft-fruit plantations
  to be derived from Bud holdings.
• The use of peat for the cultivation of planting material  should be as limited as possible.

CROP PROTECTION

• The proper choice of variety, soil management for improved tilth, well-balanced fertilizer use, appropriate cultivation techniques (e.g. crop rotation, crop type, mixed cropping, sufficient space between plants, green manure) aim at preventing the incidence of pests and diseases.
• For the direct control of pest organisms, mechanical and biotechnological methods are permitted.
• Weed control is carried out through cultivation and mechanical methods.
• The use of chemically-synthesized or genetically engineered crop protection products is prohibited.
• Detectable residues of such products on the organic produce should not exist unless they originate from a general contamination of the environment.
• Flame weeding is permitted.
• Steam treatment of soils out of doors is prohibited.
• The use of herbicides or growth regulators (straw shorteners, chemical fruit thinning, chemical soil disinfection or stem weakening agents etc.) and wilting agents is prohibited.

Permitted crop protection products:

• Insect regulation with pheromones, such as the confusion technique
• Repellents of plant or animal origin
• Natural predators, eg parasitic wasps, predatory mites, nematodes and gall midges, in the field and in greenhouses
• Naturally occurring microorganisms, such as Bacillus thuringiensis, granulosis virus, and fungi which are insect pathogens
• Mechanical defensive measure, such as protective nets, slug-proof fences, adhesive plastic chromatic traps and sticky bands
• Sulphur products, in low doses which allow predatory mites to survive, in orchards, vineyards, and vegetable growing
• Inorganic copper products, for fruit, vegetable, potato and hop production and viticulture (maximum legally permitted application of 4 kg of pure copper per hectare and year), maximum permitted application of pure copper per hectare and year of treated surface
• Pome fruit 1.5kg
• Stone fruit 4kg
• Soft fruit 2kg
• Vegetables 4kg
• Potatoes 4kg
• Hops 4kg
• Viticulture 4kg
• Products based on soft soap
• Plant extracts such as pyrethrum, rotenone, quassia, tobacco
• Plant oils and mineral oils
• Sulphur preparations

FERTILIZERS AND SOIL CONDITIONERS

Permitted soil conditioners and fertilizers:

• Fertilizers from on-farm production
• Farmyard manure, fresh or aerobically rotted
• Liquid manure/slurry after aerobic preparation (with agitation and aeration if possible)
• Organic wastes and crop residues, aerobically composted
• Organic mulch
• Green manure
• Straw
• Household
• Compost
• Farmyard manure/liquid manure/slurry of animal origin from another holding, or organic waste in accordance with the instruction on “Nutrient Supply”
• Products and by-products of the food processing industry (not containing chemical residues)
• Sawdust and waste bark (without chemical treatments)
• Rock dust, such as volcanic rock dust, quartz dust, basalt dust and powdered clays such as bentonite and others
• Calcified seaweed
• Slow-release liming products (dolomite, calcium carbonate, but not quicklime or slaked lime)
• Rock phosphate, calcium magnesium phosphate, and basic slag (only if heavy metal content is low)
• Silicate-rich rock dust containing potassium (feldspar, mica)
• Sulphate of potash-magnesia, potassium sulphate (but only when soil analyses show up a potassium deficiency)
• Plant-based products
• Seaweed extracts
• Bacterial products
• Bio-dynamic preparation
• Plant extracts and products such as infusions and teas
• Seaweed extracts
• Rock dust, bentonite and other clay minerals
• Bio-dynamic preparations