WRITTEN QUESTION E-0712/00 by Glyn Ford (PSE) to the Commission. Amending Directives 98/95/EC and 98/96/EC.
Date: 2000-03-17
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU law - national law, United Kingdom, agricultural product nomenclature, crop production, marketing, seed

C 330 E/208

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

21.11.2000

Does the decision by the Netherlands Government violate the principle of trust, since the persons
2.
concerned have moved abroad in good faith in the knowledge that they will continue to enjoy full cover
for medical expenses under the AWBZ? If not, does not the Council consider that the Netherlands(cid:146) measure
detracts from the principle of trust?

Reply

(2 May 2000)

The matter raised by the Honourable Member does not fall within the Council(cid:146)s powers. In accordance
with the Treaty, it is for the Commission to ensure that Community law is applied and, where appropriate,
to submit to the Council, or jointly to the European Parliament and to the Council, legislative proposals on
matters within the Community(cid:146)s sphere of competence.

(2000/C 330 E/241)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0712/00

by Glyn Ford (PSE) to the Commission

(17 March 2000)

Subject: Amending Directives 98/95/EC and 98/96/EC

Can the Commission indicate whether either of these Directives 98/95/EC (1) and 98/96/EC (2) prevents the
UK Government from maintaining the 1982/844 UK statutory instrument(cid:146)s provision of public consulta-
tion (part 3 paragraph 21-30)?

(1) OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 27.

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(18 April 2000)

Articles 21-30 of Part III of the United Kingdom(cid:146)s Seeds (National List of Varieties) Regulations 1982 make
provision for a public consultation procedure prior to the adoption of decisions by the United Kingdom
authorities concerning the registration, refusal of registration, renewal or withdrawal of registration in the
National List of a seed or of a maintainer. These provisions do not derive from a Community obligation
and are therefore the result of a decision by the United Kingdom legislature.

Directives 98/95/EC (1) and 98/96/EC (2) have no effect on the possibility of maintaining the provisions
referred to above. In any event, the decisions adopted by the national authorities following the consulta-
tion procedure must comply with the general and specific provisions of the EC Treaty or of acts adopted
by the institutions pursuant thereto.

(1) Council Directive 98/95/EC of 14 December 1998 amending, in respect of the consolidation of the internal market,
genetically modified plant varieties and plant genetic resources, Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC,
66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/457/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal
seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed and on the common catalogue of varieties of
agricultural plant species.

(2) Council Directive 98/96/EC of 14 December 1998 amending, inter alia, as regards unofficial field inspections under
Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/457/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the
marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed
and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species.