2007/852/EC: Commission Decision of 13 December 2007 amending Decision 2005/5/EC as regards Community comparative trials and tests on seeds and propagating material of Asparagus officinalis under Council Directive 2002/55/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 6168) (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2007-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, comparative analysis, crop production, plant propagation, quality control of agricultural products, seed, testing

20.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 335/57

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 December 2007

amending Decision 2005/5/EC as regards Community comparative trials and tests on seeds and
propagating material of Asparagus officinalis under Council Directive 2002/55/EC

(notified under document number C(2007) 6168)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/852/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June
2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed (1), and in particular
Article 43(3) and (5) thereof,

(4)

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

Consequently,
expenditure
Community contribution should be adapted.

eligible

the

and

the

Decision 2005/5/EC should therefore be
accordingly.

amended

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)

(2)

for

the

out

Commission Decision 2005/5/EC of 27 December 2004
setting
Community
arrangements
comparative trials and tests on seeds and propagating
material of certain plants of agricultural and vegetable
species and vine under Council Directives 66/401/EEC,
2002/54/EC,
66/402/EEC,
2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC for
the
years 2005 to 2009 (2) sets out the arrangements for
the comparative trials and tests to be carried out under
Council Directive 2002/55/EC as regards Asparagus offi-
cinalis from 2005 to 2009.

68/193/EEC,

92/33/EEC,

The body responsible for carrying out those trials and
tests has
informed the Commission that work has
progressed more rapidly than expected and that, due to
a proper development of plants being observed during
the years 2005 to 2007,
it now expects all relevant
observations required by the call for projects published
on 21 June 2004 (3) to be completed by the end of 2008
instead of 2009. It pointed out that as a result total
eligible costs would be lower than originally assumed,
while costs in 2008 would be higher.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Decision 2005/5/EC is amended as follows:

Article 1

1.

in the first paragraph of Article 1,
‘2008’;

‘2009’

is replaced by

2.

in the first paragraph of Article 3,
‘2008’;

‘2009’

is replaced by

3. the Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this

Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2007.

(3)

Based on those facts, the responsible body has submitted
a proposal for a recalculation of the eligible costs and of
the Community contribution.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 33. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Directive 2006/124/EC (OJ L 339, 6.12.2006, p. 12).

(2) OJ L 2, 5.1.2005, p. 12.
(3) http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/plant/call2004/index_en.htm

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ANNEX

The Annex to Decision 2005/5/EC is amended as follows:

1. The table with the title ‘Trials and tests to be carried out in 2008’ is replaced by the following table:

‘Trials and tests to be carried out in 2008

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)

Asparagus
officinalis (*)

BSA Hannover (D)

Varietal identity and
purity (field)
External seed quality
(laboratory)

100

43 495

34 794

Total cost

34 794

(*) Trials and tests lasting more than one year.’

2. The table with the title ‘Trials and tests to be carried out in 2009’ is deleted.