2000/165/EC: Commission Decision of 15 February 2000 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on seeds and propagating material of certain plants under Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC and 69/208/EEC (notified under document number C(2000) 370) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, plant health control, plant propagation, research body, seed, testing

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 February 2000

setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on seeds and propagating
material of certain plants under Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC and
69/208/EEC

(notified under document number C(2000) 370)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/165/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June
fodder plant seed (1), as last
1966 on the marketing of
amended by Directive 98/96/EC (2), and in particular Article
20(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June
1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (3), as last amended by
Commission Directive 1999/54/EC (4), and in particular Article
20(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/403/EEC of 14 June
1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes (5), as last amended by
Commission Decision 1999/742/EC (6), and in particular
Article 14(4) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 69/208/EEC of 30 June
1969 on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants (7), as last
amended by Directive 98/96/EC, and in particular Article 19(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The above mentioned Directives provide for the neces-
sary arrangement to be made for Community compara-
tive trials and tests of seed and propagating material to
be carried out.

It is essential to ensure the adequate representation of
the samples included in the trials and tests at least for
certain selected plants. Member States should participate

(1) OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2298/66.
(2) OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 27.
(3) OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2309/66.
(4) OJ L 142, 5.6.1999, p. 30.
(5) OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2320/66.
(6) OJ L 297, 18.11.1999, p. 39.
(7) OJ L 169, 10.7.1969, p. 3.

in the Community comparative trials and tests, in so far
as seed of the abovementioned plants are usually repro-
duced or marketed in their territories, in order to ensure
that proper conclusion may be drawn therefrom.

The Commission is responsible for making the necessary
arrangements for the Community comparative trials and
tests.

The detailed technical arrangements for the carrying out
the trials and tests have been made within the
of
Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material
for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry.

The arrangements for the trials and tests also cover, inter
alia, certain harmful organisms which come within the
scope of Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December
1976 on protective measures against the introduction
into Member States of organisms harmful to plants or
last amended by Commission
plant products (8) as
Directive 1999/53/EC (9)
(Community Plant Health
Regime).

Community comparative trials and tests
should be
carried out during 1999 to 2001 on seeds and propa-
gating material harvested in 1999 and the general
arrangements for such trials and tests should also be set
out.

The measures provided for in this decision are in accord-
ance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticul-
ture and Forestry,

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8) OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 20.
(9) OJ L 142, 5.6.1999, p. 29.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried
out during 1999 to 2001 on seeds and propagating material of
the plants listed in the Annex hereto.

2.
All Member States shall participate in the Community
comparative trials and tests in so far as seeds and propagating
material of the plants listed in the Annex hereto are usually
reproduced or marketed in their territories.

Article 2

trials and tests under the responsibility of the Commission
services. In the case of samples confirmed to be contaminated
by any of the relevant harmful organisms, the Commission
shall ensure that the measures required under the Community
Plant Health Regime are taken. This is without prejudice to the
general conditions applicable to the examination of the annual
reports on the
and conclusions of
Community comparative trials and tests.

confirmed results

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

The general arrangements for the carrying out of the trials and
tests referred to in Article 1 are set out in the Annex hereto.

Done at Brussels, 15 February 2000.

Article 3

In relation to the assessments under Directive 77/93/EEC each
sample to be submitted to the laboratory tests shall have been
previously coded by the body responsible for carrying out the

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Gramineae

Hordeum
Lolium
Pisum

Triticum aestivum

Zea mays

Solanum tuberosum

Bundessortenamt
Hannover (D)

Varietal

identity and purity (field)

External seed quality (laboratory)

Plantedirektoratet
Lyngby (DK)

External seed quality (laboratory)

ENSE
Milano (I)

BFL
Vienna (A)

DGPC
Oeiras (P)

Varietal

identity and purity (field)

External seed quality (laboratory)

Varietal

identity and purity (field)

Varietal

identity and purity, plant health (field)

Plant health (ringrot/brown rot/pstv) (laboratory)

Brassica napus

NIAB
Cambridge (UK)

Varietal identity and purity (field), (samples to be
divided between spring and autumn sowing)

Gossypium spp.

VRICP
Thessaloniki (EL)

Helianthus annuus

Zea mays
Helianthus annuus
Brassica napus

OEVV
Madrid (E)

GNIS/SOC (F)

Varietal

identity and purity (field)

Fibre quality (laboratory)

External seed quality (laboratory)

Varietal

identity and purity (field)

Electrophoresis:
Zea mays
Helianthus annuus
Brassica napus

Hordeum vulgare

DAF (IRL)

Varietal

identity and purity

Analytical seed quality (laboratory)

230

55

342

100

100

80

250

250

120

60

60

60

80

32
36
36

80

80