2005/853/EC: Commission Decision of  30 November 2005  authorising France to prohibit the marketing to the end user, with a view to seeding or planting in certain regions of France, of reproductive material of  Pinus pinaster  Ait. of Iberian Peninsula origin, which is unsuitable for use in such territories under Council Directive 1999/105/EC  (notified under document number C(2005) 4534)
Date: 2005-11-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Portugal, Spain, forest, marketing restriction, originating product, plant propagation

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 30 November 2005

authorising France to prohibit the marketing to the end user, with a view to seeding or planting in
certain regions of France, of reproductive material of Pinus pinaster Ait. of Iberian Peninsula origin,
which is unsuitable for use in such territories under Council Directive 1999/105/EC

(notified under document number C(2005) 4534)

(Only the French text is authentic)

(2005/853/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22
December 1999 on the marketing of
reproductive
material (1), and in particular Article 17(2) thereof,

forest

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Iberian Peninsula origin (Spain and

France requested to be authorised to prohibit
the
marketing of reproductive material of Pinus pinaster Ait.
Portugal)
of
to the end user with a view to seeding or planting in
all administrative regions of France with the exception
of
Languedoc-Roussillon
and Corsica.

Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur,

the infor-
France supported the request providing all
the
mation listed under Article 17(2)(a) and (b) of
Directive 1999/105/EC as
specified by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1602/2002 of 9 September 2002

(3)

(4)

(5)

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Directive 1999/105/EC as regards the authorisation of a
Member State to prohibit
the marketing of specified
forest reproductive material to the end user (2).

France provided evidence from commercial forestry that
trees of Pinus pinaster Ait. from seed originating from
certain regions of the Iberian Peninsula and which were
grown in French regions with the exception of
the
regions mentioned above, were not adapted to the low
temperatures experienced in these regions. The evidence
was the catastrophic effects of the heavy frosts on the
in the
survival of trees of these origins,
the
years 1956, 1963 and 1985. A comparison of
climatic
region of
provenance in the Iberian Peninsula with those in the
for Provence Alpes-Côte-
regions of France
d'Azur, Languedoc-Roussillon and Corsica was properly
carried out. The regions of provenance were as defined
according to Article 2(g) of Directive 1999/105/EC,
drawn up, published and sent to the Commission and
to Article 9 of
the other Member States pursuant
Directive 1999/105/EC.

each individual

conditions of

in particular,

except

France should be authorised to prohibit the marketing of
that forest reproductive material to the end user.

in this Decision are in
The measures provided for
accordance with
Standing
the
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agri-
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,

opinion

the

of

(1) OJ L 11, 15.1.2000, p. 17. Directive as amended by the 2003 Act of

Accession.

(2) OJ L 242, 10.9.2002, p. 18.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

France is authorised to prohibit the marketing of reproductive material of Pinus pinaster Ait. originating from
the regions listed in the Annex, to the end user with a view to seeding or planting in all administrative
regions of France with the exception of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, Languedoc-Roussillon and Corsica.

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 30 November 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX
Regions of provenance in the Iberian Peninsula for Pinus pinaster Ait.

(a) Spain:

Reference of the region of provenance in the official Spanish list
of approved basic material published by Spain in accordance
with Article 9 of Directive 1999/105/EC

Name of the region of provenance

1a

1b

5

15

16

18

19

20

A

C

D

E

F

G

(b) Portugal:

— the entire territory.

Noroeste-litoral

Noroeste-interior

Bajo Tietar

Sierra de Espadan

Levante

Moratalla

Sierra Almijara-Nevada

Sierra Bermeja

Benicasim

Litoral Catalan

La Safor

Fuencaliente

Sierra de Oria

Serrania de Ronda