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25 complies with the provisions of the Regulation and grants the certificate. Fernández (2016) comments that the requirements of independent certification bodies vary from one country to another. However, the differences are rather small and are mainly related to issues of scale and degree of development and to legal and administrative traditions. It also notes that GAI developed the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) in accordance with the relevant principles of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, ISO Guide 65, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and accreditation criteria of the IFOAM. IROCBs are a reference standard that governments and private accreditation and certification bodies can use to accept organic products certified by foreign control systems; and it also represents a true international base for trade facilitation, since it allows the import of organic products 42 . Both private and public bodies must abide by the basic standards for accreditation of certification bodies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 65), in addition to their own specific requirements. In Europe, we already commented that Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of the Council, of 28 June. Operators who sell organic products packaged directly to the consumer or end user will be exempt from the notification obligation and the obligation to be in possession of the certificate provided for in article 35.2), provided that they do not produce, prepare, store except in relation to with the point of sale, nor import said products from third countries, nor subcontract to another operator to carry out such activities. Member States may designate an authority or authorize a body to receive notifications. For their part, operators, groups of operators and subcontractors will keep records of the different activities they carry out; and the States will maintain updated lists with the names and addresses of the operators and groups of operators that have reported their activities and will make public, including through links to a single website, a complete list of this data, together with information related to the certificates provided to said 42 Fernández Pérez, A. (2016). La agricultura ecológica en el marco de la Unión Europea. La Ley Unión Europea, Nº 39.