2002/744/EC: Commission Decision of 5 September 2002 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material of ornamental plants under Council Directive 98/56/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 3300)
Date: 2002-09-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: comparative analysis, floriculture, parasitology, plant health control, plant propagation, protection of plant life, testing

7.9.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 240/63

COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 September 2002

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(2002) 3300)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2002/744/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Directive 98/56/EC of 20 July 1998
on the marketing of propagating material of ornamental
plants (1), and in particular Article 14(2) and (4) thereof,

Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried out
from 2002 to 2005 on propagating material of the plants listed
in the Annex.

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

Directive 98/56/EC provides for the necessary arrange-
ments to be made by the Commission for Community
comparative trials and tests of propagating material.

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
comparative trials and tests,
in so far as seeds of the
plants concerned are usually reproduced or marketed in
their territories, in order to ensure that proper conclu-
sions may be drawn therefrom.

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 2002 to 2005 on propagating 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 of Ornamental Plants, 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 of Ornamental Plants,

The maximum cost for the trials and tests for 2002 and 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 seeds and propagating material
of the plants listed in the Annex are 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 2004
and 2005.

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 226, 13.8.1998, p. 16.

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Trials and tests to be carried out in 2002

ANNEX

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
Samples

Cost
(EUR)

Bulbs of flowers
(Narcissus)

BKD Lisse (NL)

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

80

42 800

Total cost

42 800

Trials and tests to be carried out in 2003

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Seed propagated or-
namental plants Petu-
nia, Lobelia Lathirus

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

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

Bulbs of
(Narcissus)

flowers (*)

BKD Lisse (NL)

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

Ornamental
plants (*) Chamaecy-
paris Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

Varietal

identity and purity

Plant health (field)

Plant health (laboratory)

80

80

40

40

20

Cost
(EUR)

37 000

21 400

12 400

(*) Trial and tests lasting more than one year.

Trials and tests to be carried out in 2004

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Ornamental
plants (*) Chamaecy-
paris Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

Varietal

identity and purity

Plant health (field)

Plant health (laboratory)

Bulbs of flowers (*)
(Narcissus)

BKD Lisse (NL)

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

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

Trials and tests to be carried out in 2005

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Ornamental
plants (*) Chamaecy-
paris Ligustrum vulgare
Euphorbia fulgens

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

Varietal

identity and purity

Plant health (field)

Plant health (laboratory)

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

Total cost

70 800

Number of
samples

Cost
(EUR)

40

40

20

80

3 700 (**)

21 400 (**)

Total cost

25 100 (**)

Number of
samples

Cost
(EUR)

40

40

20

33 600 (**)

Total cost

33 600 (**)