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the appropriate design and management of biological processes based on ecological systems using natural resources which are internal to the system by methods that: use living organisms and mechanical production methods; practice land-related crop cultivation and livestock production or practice aquaculture which complies with the principle of sustainable exploitation of fisheries; exclude the use of GMOs and products produced from or by GMOs with the exception of veterinary medicinal products; are based on risk assessment, and the use of precautionary and preventive measures, when appropriate;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.