2005/942/EC: Commission Decision of  21 December 2005  authorising Member States to take decisions under Council Directive 1999/105/EC on assurances afforded in respect of forest reproductive material produced in third countries  (notified under document number C(2005) 5485)
Date: 2005-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: competence of the Member States, forest, marketing, plant health legislation, plant propagation, seed

L 342/92

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Official Journal of the European Union

24.12.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 21 December 2005

authorising Member States to take decisions under Council Directive 1999/105/EC on assurances
afforded in respect of forest reproductive material produced in third countries

(notified under document number C(2005) 5485)

(2005/942/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22
December 1999 on the marketing of
reproductive
material (1), and in particular Article 19(3) thereof,

forest

Whereas:

Article 1

Member States are authorised to decide in respect of the third
countries listed in the Annex, and in respect of the species,
categories and types of basic material set out therein whether
forest reproductive material produced in those countries affords
the same assurances as regards the approval to its basic material
and the measures taken for its production with a view to
marketing as does
reproductive material produced
within the Community and complying with the provisions of
Directive 1999/105/EC.

forest

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Pursuant to Article 19(1) of Directive 1999/105/EC, the
from the Commission is to
Council on a proposal
determine whether
reproductive material
forest
produced in a third country affords the same assurances
its basic material and the
as regards the approval of
its production with a view to
measures
marketing
reproductive material
forest
produced within the Community and complying with
the provisions of that Directive.

taken for

does

as

The information presently available on the conditions
applying in third countries is, however, still not sufficient
to enable the Community to make any such decision in
respect of any third country.

In order to prevent trade patterns from being disrupted,
Member States should, therefore, be authorised to take
imported
such decisions in respect of specific material
from particular countries. The Commission’s analysis
shows that this material offers equivalent guarantees to
those applicable to forest reproductive material produced
in the Community
in accordance with Directive
1999/105/EC.

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

reproductive material

imported from those

Forest
third
countries shall be accompanied by a master certificate or an
official certificate issued by the country of origin and records
which shall contain details of all consignments to be exported,
to be provided by the supplier in the third country.

Article 2

immediately notify the Commission and
Member States shall
other Member States of any decisions taken pursuant to this
Decision, and of any withdrawal of such decisions.

Article 3

The authorisation provided for in Article 1 shall apply from
1 January 2006 and shall expire 31 December 2008.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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

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ANNEX

Country of origin

Species

Category

Type of basic material

Belarus

Canada
(British Columbia)

Croatia
(I-1. Podravina, Podunavlje,
I-2. Posavina)

Norway

Romania

Switzerland

Turkey

United States of America
(Washington, Oregon,
California)

Legend:

SI Source identified
SE Selected
Q Qualified
Tested
T

Picea abies Karst.

Abies grandis Lindl.

Picea sitchensis Carr.

Pinus contorta Loud.

SI

SS, St

SI, Q, T

SS, St, SO, PF

SI, Q

SI

SS, St, SO

SS, St

Pseudotsuga menziesii Franco

SI, Q, T

SS, St, SO, PF

Quercus robur L.

Picea abies Karst

Pinus sylvestris L.

Quercus petraea Liebl.

Quercus robur L.

Abies alba Mill.

Acer platanoides L.

Fagus sylvatica L.

Larix decidua Mill.

Picea abies Karst.

Pinus nigra Arnold

Prunus avium L.

Quercus cerris L.

Quercus petraea Liebl.

Quercus robur L.

Quercus rubra L.

Robinia pseudoacacia L.

Fagus sylvatica L.

Cedrus libani A. Richard

Pinus brutia Ten.

Abies grandis Lindl.

Picea sitchensis Carr

Pinus contorta Loud

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI

SI, SE

SI, SE

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SI, Q, T

SS, St, SO, PF

SI

SI

SS, St

SS, St

Pseudotsuga menziesii Franco

SI, Q, T

SS, St, SO, PF

Category

Type of basic material

SS Seed source
St
Stand
SO Seed orchard
PF

Parents of family