25. 4. 86 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 97/7 
Whereas experience has shown that the rules laid down 
on the grant of the flat-rate and additional aids provided 
for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 ('), as last 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (2), are not 
suited to the structure and resources of certain under­
takings producing dried fodder which have difficulty in 
concluding contracts directly with numerous producers; 
whereas for the sake of sound administration of the 
market the undertakings should be permitted to draw 
their supplies from middlemen providing certain safe­
guards who have concluded contracts with producers of 
fodder for drying, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is hereby 
replaced by the following: 
'1. The aid provided for in Articles 3 and 5 shall 
be granted only to undertakings processing the 
products listed in Article 1 which: 
— produce dried fodder of a minimum quality to be 
determined, 
(') OJNoL 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1. 
(2) OJ No L 362, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8. 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee,-
Whereas the present inclusion of all species of birdwing 
butterflies in Part 1 of Annex C to Council Regulation 
(EEC) No 3626/82 on the implementation in the 
Community of the Convention on international trade in 
endangered species of wild fauna and flora ('), implies 
that imports of specimens of these species into the 
0) OJ No L 384, 31. 12. 1982, p. 1. — satisfy the necessary conditions for entitlement to 
aid, and 
either 
(a) conclude contracts with producers of fodder for 
drying; or 
(b) process their own crops or, in the case of groups, 
those of their own members; or 
(c) draw their supplies from natural or legal persons 
providing certain safeguards to be determined 
who have concluded contracts with producers of 
fodder for drying. 
The aid shall be paid by the Member State in which 
the dried fodder has been produced.' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 July 1986. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
Community are prohibited if they are for primarily 
commercial purposes; 
Whereas ranching operations involving birdwing but­
terflies are generally considered beneficial to the conser­
vation of these species by contributing to the increase of 
their populations in the wild; 
Whereas the success of such ranching operations in 
developing countries heavily depends on the availability 
of commercial outlets for their products; 
Whereas it is therefore necessary to allow imports of 
ranched specimens of birdwing butterflies; whereas their 
transfer from Part 1 to Part 2 of Annex C to Regulation 
(EEC) No 3626/82 opens that possibility whilst main­
taining adequate safeguards for the prevention of 
imports of specimens of endangered species and popu­
lations of birdwing butterflies, Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 on the 
implementation in the Community of the Convention on international trade in endangered 
species of wild fauna and flora 
COM(86) 167 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 April 1986) 
(86/C 97/06) 
No C 97/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.4.86 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 is hereby amended as 
follows: 
1. In Part 1 of Annex C, under the heading Lepidoptera, 
Omitboptera spp. = 356, Trogonoptera spp. = 356 
and Troides spp. = 356 are deleted. 
2. In Part 2 of Annex C, the following text shall be 
included before the heading Anthozoa: 
'INSECTA 
LEPIDOPTERA 
Papilionidae, 
Onithoptera spp. = 356, 
Trogonoptera spp. = 356, 
Troides spp. = 356'. 3. In Annex A, the text under the heading Lepidoptera is 
replaced by: 
LEPIDOPTERA 
Butterflies and moths 
Papilionidae Omitboptera spp. = 356 (C 2) 
Swallowtails Birdwing butterflies 
Parnassius apollo (Cl) 
Apollo butterfly or mountain apollo 
Trogonoptera spp. = 356 (C 2) 
Birdwing butterflies 
Troides spp. = 356 (C 2) 
Birdwing butterflies 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed 
potatoes 
COM(86) 176 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 11 April 1986) 
(86/C 97/07) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Whereas Directive 66/403/EEC ('), as last amended by 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (2), provides that 
in principle from 1 July 1975 onwards Member States 
may no longer determine for themselves the equivalence 
of seed potatoes harvested in third countries with basic 
seed potatoes or certified seed potatoes harvested within 
the Community and complying with that Directive; 
Whereas, however, since work to establish Community 
equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not 
yet been completed, Article 15 (2a) of that Directive 
permits Member States to extend to 31 January 1984 the period of validity of equivalences which they had already 
determined in respect of certain countries not covered by 
the Community equivalences; 
Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the said 
final date should be deferred to 31 March 1986; 
Whereas this measure does not affect Member States' 
obligations under the common rules on plant health laid 
down by Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December 
1976 on protective measures against the introduction 
into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants 
or plant products (3), as last amended by Regulation 
(EEC) No 3768/85, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 
Article 1 
In Article 15 (2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC, '31 January 
1984' is hereby replaced by '31 March 1986'. 
Article 2 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States. 
(') OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2320/66. 
O OJ No L 362, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8. O OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.