2002/745/EC: Commission Decision of 5 September 2002 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating and planting material of fruit plants under Council Directive 92/34/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 3302)
Date: 2002-09-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: comparative analysis, fruit-growing, import, plant health control, plant propagation, seedling, testing

7.9.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 240/65

COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 September 2002

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(2002) 3302)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2002/745/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/34/EEC of 28 April
1992 on the marketing of fruit plant-propagating material and
fruit plants, intended for fruit production (1), as last amended by
Commission Decision 2002/112/EC (2), and in particular Arti-
cles 20(2) and (4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Directive 92/34/EEC provides for the necessary arrange-
ments to be made by the Commission for Community
comparative trials and tests of propagating and planting
material.

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 is usually repro-
duced or marketed in their territories, in order to ensure
that proper conclusions may be drawn therefrom.

should be
Community comparative trials and tests
carried out from 2003 to 2007 on propagating and
planting material harvested in 2002, and the details of
such trials and tests should also be set out.

For Community comparative trials and tests lasting more
than one year, the parts of the trials and tests following
the first year should be authorised by the Commission
without further reference to the Standing Committee on
Propagating Material and Plants of Fruit Genera and
Species, on condition that the necessary appropriations
are available.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
Propagating Material and Plants of Fruit Genera and
Species,

Article 1

Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried out
from 2003 to 2007 on propagating and planting material of
Prunus domestica.

The maximum cost for the trials and tests for 2003 shall be as
set out in the Annex.

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

Article 2

All Member States shall participate in the Community compara-
tive trials and tests in so far as propagating and planting mate-
rial of Prunus domestica is usually reproduced or marketed in
their territories.

Article 3

Subject to budgetary availability, the Commission may decide
to continue the trials and tests set out in the Annex in the
period 2004 to 2007.

The maximum cost of a trial or test continued on this basis
shall not exceed the amount specified in the Annex.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 September 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 157, 10.6.1992, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 41, 13.2.2002, p. 44.

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Trials and tests on Prunus domestica (*) to be carried out

ANNEX

Year

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Cost
(EUR)

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

Varietal
(field),

identity

and purity

50

16 000

Plant health (laboratory)

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

Same

8 000 (**)

10 900 (**)

11 100 (**)

29 100 (**)

Total cost

75 100

(*) Trials and tests lasting more than one year.
(**) Estimated cost.