2001/898/EC: Commission Decision of 12 December 2001 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material of ornamental plants under Council Directive 98/56/EC (notified under document number C(2001) 4224)
Date: 2001-12-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: floriculture, parasitology, plant health control, plant propagation, protection of plant life

15.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 331/101

COMMISSION DECISION

of 12 December 2001

setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material
of ornamental plants under Council Directive 98/56/EC

(notified under document number C(2001) 4224)

(2001/898/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(8)

Having regard to Council Directive 98/56/EC on the marketing
of propagating material of ornamental plants (1) in particular
Article 14(4) thereof,

Standing Committee for Propagating Materials of Orna-
mental Plants.

The Standing Committee for Propagating Materials of
Ornamental Plants has not delivered an opinion within
the time-limit laid down by its Chairman,

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 material to be carried
out.

Adequate representation 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
in so far as seed of the
comparative trials and tests,
are usually reproduced or
abovementioned plants
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 technical arrangements for the carrying out of the
trials and tests have been made within the Standing
Committee for Propagating Materials of Ornamental
Plants.

Community comparative trials and tests
should be
carried out from the year 2002 to 2004 on propagating
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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried
out from the year 2002 to 2004 on propagating material of
the plants listed in the Annex.

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 seeds and propagating
material of the plants listed in the Annex are usually repro-
duced 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 and 2004. 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 226, 13.8.1998, p. 16.

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ANNEX

Trials to be carried out in 2002

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Seed propagated ornamental plants
Petunia
Lobelia
Lathirus

NAKT Roelofarendsveen (NL)

Varietal identity and purity (field)
external seed quality (laboratory)

BKD Lisse (NL)

NAKT Roelofarendsveen (NL)

Varietal identity and purity (field)
Plant health (laboratory)

Varietal identity and purity Plant
Health (field)
Plant Health (laboratory)

Bulbs of flowers
(Narcissus)

Ornamental plants (*)
Chamaecyparis
Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

(*) Trial

lasting more than one year.

Trials to be carried out in 2003

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

NAKT Roelofarendsveen (NL)

Varietal identity and purity Plant
Health (field)
Plant Health (laboratory)

Ornamental plants
Chamaecyparis
Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

(*) Estimated cost.

Trials to be carried out in 2004

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

NAKT Roelofarendsveen (NL)

Varietal identity and purity Plant
Health (field)
Plant Health (laboratory)

Ornamental plants
Chamaecyparis
Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

(*) Estimated cost.

Cost
(euro)

37 000

42 800

12 400

Number
of samples

80

80

40
40
20

Total cost

92 200

Cost
(euro)

3 700 (*)

Number
of samples

40
40
20

Total cost

3 700

Number
of samples

Cost
(euro)

33 600 (*)

40
40
20

Total cost

33 600