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Commission Regulation (EC) No 45/1999 of 11 January 1999 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs as regards withdrawal of the authorisation of certain additives belonging to the group of coccidiostats and other medicinal substances
Date: 1999-01-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, drug surveillance, food additive, veterinary drug

12. 1. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 6/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 45/1999

of 11 January 1999

amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs as
regards withdrawal of the authorisation of certain additives belonging to the
group of coccidiostats and other medicinal substances

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23
November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (1),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2821/98 (2), and
in particular Article 9g(3)(a) thereof,

Whereas coccidiostats and other medicinal substances
included in Annex I to Directive 70/524/EEC prior to 1
January 1998 are provisionally authorised as from 1 April
1998 and transferred to Chapter I of Annex B with a view
to their re-evaluation as additives linked to a person
responsible for putting them into circulation;

Whereas the Commission must withdraw provisional
authorisations
for coccidiostats and other medicinal
substances for which there have been no new applications
for authorisation before 1 October 1998 accompanied by
a monograph and identification note addressed by the
person responsible for the dossier on the basis of which
the former authorisation was granted or by his successor
or successors, via the Member State acting as rapporteur,
to the Commission;

Whereas no such applications have been addressed to the
Commission for the coccidiostats and other medicinal
substances arprinocide, dinitolmide and ipronidazole;

whereas the requirements of Directive 70/524/EEC have
not therefore been met and the authorisations granted to
those additives should be withdrawn and their entries
deleted from Chapter I of Annex B to that Directive;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Standing
Committee on Feedingstuffs,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The inscriptions in Annex B Chapter I to Directive 70/
524/EEC of the following substances belonging to the
group of coccidiostats and other medicinal substances are
hereby deleted:

— arprinocide,
— dinitolmide,
— ipronidazole.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 September
1999.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 11 January 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 351, 29. 12. 1998, p. 4.
1999/49/EC: Commission Decision of 11 January 1999 extending the period referred to in Article 15(2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed potatoes (notified under document number C(1998) 4561)
Date: 1999-01-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing, plant health legislation, potato, seedling

L 16/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

21. 1. 1999

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 January 1999

extending the period referred to in Article 15(2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC on the
marketing of seed potatoes

(notified under document number C(1998) 4561)

(1999/49/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/403/EEC of 14
June 1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes (1), as last
amended by Commission Decision 98/111/EC (2), and in
particular Article 15(2a) thereof,

Whereas in principle, with effect
from certain dates,
Member States may no longer determine for themselves
the equivalence of seed potatoes harvested in third coun-
tries with 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
been completed, Article 15(2a) of that Directive permitted
Member States to extend to 31 March 98 the period of
validity of equivalence decisions which they had already
the
taken for
Community equivalence;

certain countries not

covered by

Whereas the said work is still incomplete;

Whereas the authorisation may only be extended in
accordance with Member States’ obligations under the
common rules on plant health, laid down by Council
Directive 77/93/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 98/
2/EC (4);

Whereas
by Commission Decision 1999/50/EC (5)
derogations provided for by certain Member States from
certain provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC in respect of
seed potatoes originating in Canada have been authorised
until 31 March 1999;

Whereas the authorisation granted to Member States by
Article 15(2a) should accordingly be extended;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horti-
culture and Forestry,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Article 15(2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC, the date ‘31
March 1998' is replaced by ‘31 March 1999'.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 11 January 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2320/66.
(2) OJ L 28, 4. 2. 1998, p. 42.
(3) OJ L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.
(4) OJ L 15, 21. 1. 1998, p. 34.

(5) See page 31 of this Official Journal.