2001/835/EC: Commission Decision of 27 November 2001 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(2001) 3623)
Date: 2001-11-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing standard, plant propagation, preparation for market, seed, seedling, vineyard

29.11.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 312/25

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 November 2001

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(2001) 3623)

(2001/835/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(7)

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 vegetative propaga-
tion of the vine (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of
Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 14(1)
thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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

Having regard to the request submitted by France,

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

On 31 August 2001 France submitted a request
pursuant to Article 14 of Directive 68/193/EEC stating
that the production of certain vine propagating material
satisfying the requirements of Directive 68/193/EEC had
been insufficient in 1999-2000 and was therefore not
adequate to meet its needs.

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

France should therefore temporarily be authorised to
permit the marketing of material of a category to which
less stringent requirements than laid down in Directive
68/193/EEC apply, provided that certain conditions are
complied with.

According to the request from France the propagating
material will be imported from Switzerland in the form
of dormant buds to be used for grafting and the rooted
grafts produced from such propagating material are then
intended for re-export to Switzerland.

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

The authorisation should only be used in accordance
with the plant health conditions and requirements laid
down by Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000
on protective measures against the introduction into the
Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant
their
products
the
and
spread within
Community (2),
amended by Commission
Directive 2001/33/EC (3), and in any implementing
measures made thereof.

against
last
as

(1) OJ L 93, 17.4.1968, p. 15.
(2) OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 127, 9.5.2001, p. 42.

France shall be authorised to permit, for a period expiring
1.
on 15 March 2002,
the marketing on its territory of a
maximum of 215 000 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, subject to the conditions set out
in paragraph 2.

The authorisation shall be granted for the following vari-

2.
eties and quantities:

— Chasselas blanc

— Gamaret noir

— Humagne noir

— Diolinoir

— Petite Arvine

— Amigne

— Cornalin

— Garanoir

50 000 dormant buds,

100 000 dormant buds,

10 000 dormant buds,

10 000 dormant buds,

10 000 dormant buds,

10 000 dormant buds,

10 000 dormant buds,

15 000 dormant buds.

The official label for those dormant buds shall be brown and
bear the words ‘less stringent requirements’.

Article 2

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

2.
France shall act as a coordinator of the authorisations to
be granted under Article 2(1), in order to ensure that the total
amount does not exceed the maximum quantities as specified.
Any Member State receiving an application under Article 2(1)
shall immediately notify France of the amount covered by the
application. France shall
immediately inform the notifying
Member State as to whether authorisation of the application
would result in the maximum quantity being exceeded.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

29.11.2001

The authorisations pursuant to Articles 1 and 2 shall be without prejudice to Directive 2000/29/EC and any
implementing measures thereof.

Article 3

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

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 27 November 2001.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission