Commission Regulation (EC) No 2301/2002 of 20 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 1999/105/EC as regards the definition of small quantities of seed
Date: 2002-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: forest, marketing, plant propagation, seed, terminology

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2301/2002

of 20 December 2002

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 1999/105/EC as regards the
definition of small quantities of seed

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22
December 1999 on the marketing of forest reproductive mate-
rial (1), and in particular Article 14(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

In accordance with Directive 1999/105/EC the supplier's
label or document must include information about the
germination percentage and the number of germinable
seeds of
these
requirements do not apply to small quantities of seeds.

the reproductive material. However,

The thresholds for small quantities should therefore be
determined.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Seeds and Propagating Material
for Agriculture,
Horticulture and Forestry,

Article 1

For the purposes of Article 14 of Directive 1999/105/EC a
quantity of seed shall be considered as small
if it does not
exceed the amounts specified in the Annex to this Regulation
for the different species.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 2003.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 11, 15.1.2000, p. 17.

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ANNEX

Small quantities

CONIFERS

Abies alba Mill.

Abies cephalonica Loud.

Abies grandis Lindl.

Abies pinsapo Boiss.

Cedrus atlantica Carr.

Cedrus libani A. Richard

Larix decidua Mill.

Larix x eurolepis Henry

Larix kaempferi Carr.

Larix sibirica Ledeb.

Picea abies Karst.

Picea_sitchensis Carr.

Pinus brutia Ten.

Pinus canariensis C. Smith

Pinus cembra Linne

Pinus contorta Loud.

Pinus halepensis Mill.

Pinus leucodermis Antoine

Pinus nigra Arnold

Pinus pinaster Ait.

Pinus pinea L.

Pinus radiata D. Don

Pinus sylvestris L.

Pseudotsuga menzielsi Franco

BROAD LEAVES

Acer platanoides L.

Acer pseudoplatanus L.

Alnus glutinosa Gaertn.

Alnus incana Moench.

Betula pendula Roth

Betula pubescens Ehrh.

Carpinus betulus L.

Castanea sativa Mill.

Fagus sylvatica L.

Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl.

Fraxinus excelsior L.

Populus spp

Prunus avium L.

Quercus cerris L.

Quercus ilex L.

Quercus petraea Liebl.

Quercus pubescens Willd.

amount
(in grams)

1 200

1 800

500

1 600

2 000

2 000

170

160

100

100

200

60

500

300

7 000

90

500

600

500

1 200

10 000

800

200

300

3 500

3 000

40

20

50

50

2 500

45 000

6 000

2 000

2 000

20

4 500

40 000

40 000

40 000

40 000

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Quercus robur L.

Quercus rubra L.

Quercus suber L.

Robinia pseudoacacia L.

Tilia cordata Mill.

Tilia platyphyllos Scop.

amount
(in grams)

40 000

40 000

40 000

500

900

2 500