2006/545/EC: Council Decision of  18 July 2006  on the equivalence of the official examination of varieties carried out in Croatia   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-07-18
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Community certification, Croatia, European standard, catalogue, crop production, marketing

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Official Journal of the European Union

5.8.2006

COUNCIL DECISION

of 18 July 2006

on the equivalence of the official examination of varieties carried out in Croatia

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/545/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/53/EC of 13 June
2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural
plant species (1), and in particular Article 22(1)(a) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

to
Directive 2002/53/EC allows
determine whether the official examinations of varieties
carried out in a third country afford the same assurances
as those carried out in the Member States.

the Council

for

The rules on the official examination of varieties carried
out in Croatia in respect of wheat, barley and maize
provide that the acceptance of varieties as regards their
distinctness, stability and uniformity is based on the
results of official examinations, particularly growing
trials, covering a sufficient number of characteristics for
the variety to be described.

An examination of those rules and the manner in which
they are applied in Croatia in respect of the three afore-
mentioned species has shown that they afford the same
assurances as those carried out by the Member States,
provided that further conditions are satisfied.

This Decision does not prevent Community findings on
equivalence from being revoked if
the conditions on
which they are based are not, or cease to be, satisfied.

their

Given that the Annexes may require frequent modifi-
cation of
they should be
technical provisions,
amended in accordance with the procedure set out in
Article 4 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June
1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of
implementing powers conferred on the Commission (2),

Article 1

The official examinations as regards distinctness, stability and
uniformity of the varieties of the species listed in Annex I
carried out in Croatia by the Authority specified in Annex I
shall be considered to afford the same assurances as those
carried out by the Member States, if they satisfy the conditions
set out in Annex II.

Article 2

Amendments to the Annexes shall be adopted in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 3(2).

Article 3

1.
The Commission shall be assisted by the Standing
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture,
‘the
and Forestry, hereinafter
Horticulture
Committee’,
set up by Article 1 of Council Decision
66/399/EEC (3).

referred to as

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and
7 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.

The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision

3.
1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.

4.

The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. KORKEAOJA

(1) OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(3) OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2289/66.

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ANNEX I

Authority

Species

Institute for Seed and Seedlings, Osijek

Hordeum vulgare L.
Triticum aestivum L.
Zea Mays L.

ANNEX II

CONDITIONS

1. The acceptance of varieties as regards the assessment of distinctness, stability and uniformity shall be based on the

results of official examinations.

2. In order to establish distinctness, the growing trials shall include at least the available comparable varieties:

— listed in the Common Catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species, or

— which, without being listed in the abovementioned catalogue, have been accepted or submitted for acceptance in a
Member State of the Community, either for certification and marketing, or for certification for other countries.

3. The minimum characteristics to be taken into account and the minimum conditions to be complied with when
examining certain varieties of the species of agricultural plants shall be those set out in Commission Directive
2003/90/EC (1).

(1) OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, p. 7. Directive as amended by Commission Directive 2005/91/EC (OJ L 331, 17.12.2005, p. 24).