Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 69/208/EEC on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants
Date: 2002-05-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: labelling, marketing standard, oleaginous plant, seed, textile plant

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Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 69/208/EEC on the marketing of seed of oil
and fibre plants

(2002/C 203 E/35)

COM(2002) 232 final — 2002/0105(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 14 May 2002)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Amendments to be made to paragraph 1(B) and (Ba)
‘1c.
for the purpose of including hybrids of plants other than
sunflower in the scope of this Directive shall be adopted in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20.’

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

2. In Article 10(1)(a), the following sentence is inserted after

the second sentence:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,

‘In the case of certified seed of a varietal association, the
label shall be blue with a diagonal green line.’

Whereas:

3. In Article 14(1),

the terms ‘Directive 70/457/EEC’ are

replaced by the following text:

in

the

included

(1) Varietal associations of oil and fibre plants species should
be
of Council Directive
scope
69/208/EEC (1). The conditions to be satisfied by the
varietal associations,
including the colour of the official
label required for packages of certified seed of varietal
associations, should also be defined.

(2) Owing to their increased importance in the Community,
hybrid varieties of oil and fibre plant species additional to
sunflower should also be included in the scope of the
Directive 69/208/EEC.

(3) It is necessary for this Directive to enter into force as a
matter of urgency. Due to the increased importance in the
Community of such seed the Commission adopted in 1995
Commission Decision 95/232/EC (2) with the aim of estab-
lishing the conditions to be satisfied by the seed of hybrids
and varietal associations of swede rape and turnip rape.
This Decision will expire on 30 June 2002.

(4) Directive 69/208/EEC should therefore be

amended

accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 69/208/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

‘Directive 70/457/EEC (*)

___________
(*) OJ L 225, 12.10.1970, p. 1; as last amended by

Directive 98/95/EC (OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 1)’.

4. The following Article 14b is inserted:

‘Article 14b

1. Member States shall permit seed of species of oil and
fibre plants to be marketed in the form of a varietal
association.

2.

For the purpose of paragraph 1:

a

seed of

— a “varietal association” shall mean an association of
certified
specified pollinator-dependant
hybrid officially admitted under Directive 70/457/EEC
with certified seed of one or more specified pollinator(s),
and mechanically combined in
similarly admitted,
proportions
persons
by
determined
jointly
responsible for the maintenance of these components,
such combination having been notified to the Certifi-
cation Authority,

the

1. In Article 2,
paragraph 1b:

the following paragraph is inserted after

— “pollinator-dependant hybrid” shall mean the male-sterile
(female

component within the “varietal association”
component),

(1) OJ L 169, 10.7.1969, p. 3. Directive as last amended by Directive

98/96/EC (OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 27).

(2) OJ L 154, 5.7.1995, p. 22. Decision as

last amended by

Commission Decision 99/84/EC (OJ L 27, 2.2.1999, p. 31).

— “pollinator(s)”

shall mean the component

association”

shedding
(male

pollen within
component),

the

“varietal

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The seed of the female and male components shall be

3.
dressed using different coloured seed dressings.’

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of domestic law they adopt in the
field covered by this Directive.

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
or administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 30 June 2002 at the latest. They shall forthwith
inform the Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such
reference on the occasion of their official publication. The
procedure
adopted by the
for
Member States.

such reference

shall be

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 7th day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.