Commission Directive 2003/111/EC of 26 November 2003 amending Annex II to Directive 92/34/EEC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-11-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit-growing, marketing, plant propagation, seedling

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27.11.2003

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2003/111/EC

of 26 November 2003

amending Annex II to Directive 92/34/EEC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material
and fruit plants intended for fruit production

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

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), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Directive 92/34/EEC establishes Community provisions
for the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and
fruit plants intended for fruit production within the
Community. It applies to the genera and species listed in
Annex II to that Directive.

Certain fruit genera and species which are not currently
to Directive 92/34/EEC have
included in Annex II
increased in economical importance. Accordingly,
it is
appropriate that they be now included in the genera and
species listed in Annex II to that Directive. The following
genera and species should be included: Castanea sativa
Mill., Ficus carica L., Fortunella Swingle, Poncirus Raf. and
Vaccinium L. In addition, the Citrus species, the Fragaria
the Ribes species, and the
species,
Rubus species should be added to Citrus sinensis (L.)
Osbeck, C. limon (L) Burm. f., C. reticulata Blanco, C. para-
disi Macf., C. aurantifolia (Christm.) Swing, Fragaria x
ananassa Duch.
(strawberry), Pyrus communis L., Ribes
(redcurrant) and Rubus (blackberry), and Cydonia Mill.
should be replaced by Cydonia oblonga Mill.

the Pyrus species,

In the interests of clarity, the list in Annex II to Directive
92/34/EEC should be replaced by a new list including all
the genera and species in alphabetical order with their
botanical name.

Directive 92/34/EEC should therefore be
accordingly.

amended

The measures provided for in this Directive are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Propagating Material and Plant of Fruit Genera and
Species,

Article 1

Annex II to Directive 92/34/EEC is replaced by the text in the
Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 31 October 2004 at the latest. They shall forth-
with communicate to the Commission the text of those provi-
sions and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a refer-
ence on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made

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

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 November 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 157, 10.6.1992, p. 10. Directive as last amended by Directive

2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

LIST OF GENERA AND SPECIES TO WHICH THIS DIRECTIVE APPLIES

Castanea sativa Mill.

Citrus L.

Corylus avellana L.

Cydonia oblonga Mill.

Ficus carica L.

Fortunella Swingle

Fragaria L.

Juglans regia L.

Malus Mill.

Olea europaea L.

Pistacia vera L.

Poncirus Raf.

Prunus amygdalus Batsch

Prunus armeniaca L.

Prunus avium (L.) L.

Prunus cerasus L.

Prunus domestica L.

Prunus persica (L.) Batsch

Prunus salicina Lindley

Pyrus L.

Ribes L.

Rubus L.

Vaccinium L.’