2001/896/EC: Commission Decision of 12 December 2001 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating and planting material of fruit plants under Council Directive 92/34/EEC (notified under document number C(2001) 4220)
Date: 2001-12-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit-growing, import, plant health control, plant propagation, seedling, stone fruit

15.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 331/95

COMMISSION DECISION

of 12 December 2001

setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating and
planting material of fruit plants under Council Directive 92/34/EEC

(notified under document number C(2001) 4220)

(2001/896/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/34/EEC on the
marketing of propagating and planting material of
fruit
plants (1), as last amended by Directive 1999/30/EC (2), and in
particular Article 20(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

The abovementioned Directive provides for the neces-
sary arrangement to be made for Community compara-
tive trials and tests of propagating and planting material
to be carried out.

Adequate representativity of the samples included in the
trials and tests should be ensured, at least for certain
selected plants.

Member States should participate in the Community
comparative trials and tests, in so far as propagating and
planting material of Prunus domestica are usually repro-
duced or marketed in their territories, in order to ensure
that proper conclusions may be drawn therefrom.

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

The technical arrangements for the carrying out of the
trials and tests have been made within the Standing
Committee on Propagating Material and Plants of Fruit
Genera and Species.

Community comparative trials and tests
should be
carried out from the year 2002 to 2006 on propagating
and planting material harvested in 2001 and the details
for such trials and tests should also be set out.

For the Community comparative trials and tests lasting
more than one year the parts of the trials and tests
following the first year should, on condition that the
necessary appropriations are available, be authorised by
to the
the Commission without

reference

further

Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Plants
of Fruit Genera and Species.

(8)

The Standing Committee on Propagating Material and
Plants of Fruit Genera and Species has not delivered an
opinion within the time limit laid down by its Chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried
out from the year 2002 to 2006 on propagating and planting
material of Prunus domestica.

The maximum cost for the trials and tests for 2002 shall

2.
be as set out in the Annex.

3.
All Member States shall participate in the Community
comparative trials and tests in so far as propagating and
planting material of Prunus domestica are usually reproduced or
marketed in their territories.

4.

The details of the trials and tests are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

The Commission may decide to continue the trials and tests set
out in the Annex in 2003 to 2006. The maximum cost of a
trial or test continued on this basis shall not exceed the amount
specified in the Annex.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 12 December 2001.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 157, 10.6.1992, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 8, 14.1.1999, p. 30.

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ANNEX

Trials on Prunus domestica to be carried out

Year

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Cost (EUR)

2002

NAKT Roelofarendsveen (NL)

Varietal
(field)

identity and purity

50

16 000

Plant Health (laboratory)

same

same

same

same

2003

2004

2005

2006

(*) Estimated cost.

same

same

same

same

same

same

same

same

8 000 (*)

10 900 (*)

11 100 (*)

29 100 (*)

Total cost

75 100