EU organic logo

How to read it

The EU organic logo can only be used on products certified organic by an authorised control agency or body, and only when they contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients. The same ingredient cannot appear in both organic and non-organic form. Beside the logo, the label shows the code number of the control body and where the farm ingredients were grown. The logo is compulsory for most organic products.

Also searched as: EU organic leaf, Euro-leaf.

What it is not used on

The logo cannot be used on products with less than 95 percent organic ingredients, in restaurants, hospitals and other mass catering, on products outside the organic rules such as cosmetics and products of hunting and fishing, or on products “in conversion” from conventional farming.

Differences by country or standard

The United States and the European Union have an equivalence arrangement: products certified to either the EU or the USDA organic standards may be sold as organic in both, as long as they meet its terms. The two differ in how they define and label organic wine. The US has its own organic seal.