2005/2/EC: Commission Decision of 27 December 2004 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material of ornamental plants of certain species under Council Directive 98/56/EC for the years 2005 and 2006 (notified under document number C(2004) 5288)
Date: 2004-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, European standard, comparative analysis, crop production, plant propagation, testing

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 December 2004

setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material of
ornamental plants of certain species under Council Directive 98/56/EC for the years 2005 and 2006

(notified under document number C(2004) 5288)

(2005/2/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

officer of the Commission and the body responsible for
carrying out of trials.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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(4), (5) and (6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

provides

98/56/EC

necessary
for
Directive
arrangements
to be made by the Commission for
Community comparative trials and tests of propagating
material.

the

The technical arrangements for the carrying out of the
trials and tests have been made within the Standing
Committee
for Propagating Material of Ornamental
Plants.

A call for projects for the carrying out of those trials and
tests was published on 21 June 2004 on the Internet site
of the Community institutions (2).

The proposals have been assessed according to the
selection and awarding criteria set out in the call for
projects. The projects,
the bodies responsible for the
carrying out of tests and trials and the eligible costs as
well as the maximum Community financial contribution
corresponding to 80 % of the eligible costs should be
established.

Community comparative trials and tests
should be
carried out in the years 2005 and 2006 on propagating
material harvested in 2004, and the details of such trials
and tests, the eligible costs as well as the maximum
Community financial contribution should also be set
out yearly by an agreement signed by the authorising

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

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.

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 propagating
material of the plants concerned are usually reproduced
or marketed in their territories, in order to ensure that
proper conclusions may be drawn there from.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee
Plants,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the
for Propagating Material of Ornamental

opinion

the

of

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried out in
the years 2005 and 2006 on propagating material of the plants
listed in the Annex.

The eligible costs as well as the maximum Community financial
contribution for the trials and tests for 2005 shall be as set out
in the Annex.

(1) OJ L 226, 13.8.1998, p. 16. Directive as last amended by Directive

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

(2) http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/plant/call2004/index_en.htm.

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

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Article 2

In so far as propagating and planting material of the plants
listed in the Annex is usually reproduced or marketed in their
territories, the Member States shall take samples of this material
and make them available to the Commission.

continued on this basis shall not exceed the amount specified
in the Annex.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 27 December 2004.

Subject to budgetary availability, the Commission may decide to
continue the trials and tests set out in the Annex in 2006.

The maximum Community
sponding to 80 % of

the eligible costs of a trial or

contribution corre-
test

financial

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Trials and tests to be carried out in 2005

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Eligible costs
(EUR)

Maximum
Community
financial
contribution
(equivalent to
80 % of the
eligible costs)
(EUR)

Perennials
(Paeonia spp. and
Geranium spp.) (*)

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

identity

Varietal
purity
Plant health (field)

and

50 + 50

31 392

25 113

Plant health (laboratory)

Argyranthemum frutescens
(L.) Schultz-Bip. and
Calibrachoa-hybrids

BSA Hannover (D)

identity

Varietal
purity
Plant health (field)

and

60 + 60

41 238

32 991

Plant health (laboratory)

TOTAL COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION

58 104

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

Trials and tests to be carried out in 2006

Species

Responsible body

Conditions to be assessed

Number of
samples

Eligible costs
(EUR)

Maximum
Community
financial
contribution
(equivalent to
80 % of the
eligible costs)
(EUR)

Perennials
(Paeonia spp. and
Geranium spp.) (*)

NAKT
Roelofarendsveen
(NL)

identity

Varietal
purity
Plant health (field)

and

50 + 50

33 267

26 613

Plant health (laboratory)

TOTAL COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION

26 613

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