# IMMC.EESC-2018-03505-AC.ENG.xhtml.EESC-2018-03505-00-00-AC-TRA-EN.docx

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European Economic and Social Committee

European Economic and Social Committee

NAT/753

NAT/753

Equivalence of inspections – seed produced in Brazil and Moldova (amendment)
  (Category C)

Equivalence of inspections – seed produced in Brazil and Moldova (amendment)
  (Category C)

OPINION


  European Economic and Social Committee


  Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Brazil on fodder plant seed-producing crops and cereal seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of fodder plant seed and cereal seed produced in Brazil, and as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Moldova on cereal seed-producing crops, vegetable seed-producing crops and oil and fibre plant seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of cereal seed, vegetable seed and oil and fibre plant seed produced in Moldova

  [COM(2017) 643 final – 2017/0297 (COD)]

OPINION

European Economic and Social Committee

Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Brazil on fodder plant seed-producing crops and cereal seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of fodder plant seed and cereal seed produced in Brazil, and as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Moldova on cereal seed-producing crops, vegetable seed-producing crops and oil and fibre plant seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of cereal seed, vegetable seed and oil and fibre plant seed produced in Moldova

[COM(2017) 643 final – 2017/0297 (COD)]

Consultation

| Consultation | Council of the European Union, 18/06/2018 |
| --- | --- |
| Legal basis | Article 43(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
| Section responsible | Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment |
| Adopted at plenary | 11/07/2018 |
| Plenary session No | 536 |
| Outcome of vote
  (for/against/abstentions) | 166/0/4 |

Consultation

Council of the European Union, 18/06/2018

Council of the European Union, 18/06/2018

Legal basis

Legal basis

Article 43(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Article 43(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Section responsible

Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Adopted at plenary

Adopted at plenary

11/07/2018

11/07/2018

Plenary session No

Plenary session No

536

536

Outcome of vote
  (for/against/abstentions)

Outcome of vote
  (for/against/abstentions)

166/0/4

166/0/4

On 18 June 2018, the Council decided to submit for consultation to the European Economic and Social Committee the compromise text 9299/18 approved by the Permanent Representatives Committee at its meeting of 27 April 2018, following the amendment of the legal basis to refer to Article 43(2) TFEU.

On 18 June 2018, the Council decided to submit for consultation to the European Economic and Social Committee the compromise text 9299/18 approved by the Permanent Representatives Committee at its meeting of 27 April 2018, following the amendment of the legal basis to refer to Article 43(2) TFEU.

Since the Committee had already set out its views on the contents of the original proposal in opinion EESC 2018/00043 (NAT/726), adopted on 14 February 2018
  1*, it decided at its 536th plenary session, held on 11 and 12 July 2018 (meeting of 11 July), by 166 votes to none with 4 abstentions, not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.

Since the Committee had already set out its views on the contents of the original proposal in opinion EESC 2018/00043 (NAT/726), adopted on 14 February 2018

1*

, it decided at its 536th plenary session, held on 11 and 12 July 2018 (meeting of 11 July), by 166 votes to none with 4 abstentions, not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.

Brussels, 11 July 2018

Brussels, 11 July 2018

Luca JAHIER

  The president of the European Economic and Social Committee

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