2000/190/EC: Commission Decision of 24 February 2000 authorising the Member States to permit temporarily the marketing of vine propagating material not satisfying the requirements of Council Directive 68/193/EEC (notified under document number C(2000) 416)
Date: 2000-02-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: plant health control, plant health legislation, plant propagation, vineyard

4.3.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 59/21

COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 February 2000

authorising the Member States to permit temporarily the marketing of vine propagating material
not satisfying the requirements of Council Directive 68/193/EEC

(notified under document number C(2000) 416)

(2000/190/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 68/193/EEC of 9 April
1968 on the marketing of material for the negative propaga-
tion of the vine (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of
Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 14
thereof,

Having regard to the request submitted by France,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

In the Community, in particular in France the produc-
tion of certain vine propagating materials satisfying the
requirements of Directive 68/193/EEC, has been insuffi-
cient in 1998 and is therefore not adequate to meet that
country's needs.

It is not possible to cover this demand satisfactorily with
material satisfying all the requirements laid down in the
said Directive.

France should therefore be authorised to permit
the
marketing for a period expiring on 15 March 2000, of
material of a category to which less stringent require-
ments apply.

Other Member States likely to supply France with such
material should furthermore be authorised to permit its
marketing to this end.

In France the propagating material will be imported in
the form of dormant buds to be used for grafting;
whereas, according to the request,
the rooted grafts
produced in the Community from such propagating
materials are then intended for export to Switzerland.

This authorisation may only be used in accordance with
the plant health conditions and requirements laid down
by Council Directive 77/93/EEC (2), as last amended by
Commission Directive 1999/53/EC (3), and in any imple-
menting measures made thereof.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Seeds and Propagating Material
for Agriculture,
Horticulture and Forestry,

Article 1

France is authorised to permit, for a permit expiring on 15
March 2000, the marketing on its territory of a maximum of
195 000 dormant buds for grafting harvested in Switzerland
which do not satisfy the requirements laid down in Directive
68/193/EEC as regards certification and inspection of standard
propagating material, provided that the official label is brown
and bears the words ‘less stringent requirements’.

Article 2

Member States other than the applicant Member State are also
authorised to permit, on the terms set out in Article 1 and for
the purposes intended by the applicant Member State, the
marketing in their territories of the material authorised to be
marketed under this Decision.

Article 3

The authorisations under Articles 1 and 2 shall be without
prejudice to Council Directive 77/93/EEC and any imple-
menting measures thereof.

Article 4

Member States shall immediately notify the Commission and
the quantities of propagating
the other Member States of
material permitted to be marketed in their territories under this
Decision.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 February 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 93, 17.4.1968, p. 15.
(2) OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 142, 5.6.1999, p. 29.