2008/989/EC: Commission Decision of 23 December 2008 authorising Member States, in accordance with Council Directive 1999/105/EC, to take decisions on the equivalence of the guarantees afforded by forest reproductive material to be imported from certain third countries (notified under document number C(2008) 8589)
Date: 2008-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: access to information, forest certification, forestry holding, import, marketing standard, originating product, plant propagation, plantation, production standard, third country

31.12.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 352/55

COMMISSION DECISION

of 23 December 2008

authorising Member States, in accordance with Council Directive 1999/105/EC, to take decisions on
the equivalence of the guarantees afforded by forest reproductive material to be imported from
certain third countries

(notified under document number C(2008) 8589)

(2008/989/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 forest reproductive
material (1), and in particular Article 19(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

ductive material produced in third countries,
to third
countries other than those listed by the above Decision,
a sufficient time period necessary for the implementation
of the OECD International Scheme for Certification of
Forest Reproductive Material Moving in International
Trade by those third countries is requested. Therefore,
it should be appropriate to extend the period of the
validity of
this Decision to 31 December 2014. The
period of application of this Decision should be suf­
ficiently long to allow any risk of a disruption of
imports into Member States to be avoided.

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)

19(1)

reproductive material of

accordance with Article

In
of Directive
1999/105/EC, a Council Decision is being adopted on
the equivalence of forest reproductive material produced
in third countries setting out the conditions under which
the categories ‘source
forest
and ‘selected’ produced in certain third
identified’
imported into the Community.
countries may be
for certain other third countries the infor­
However,
is not
mation presently available at Community level
sufficient
in that
Decision. This is the case of Belarus, Bosnia and Herze­
govina, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
New Zealand.

third countries

to include

those

In order to prevent trade patterns from being disrupted
upon the expiry of Commission Decision 2005/942/EC
of 21 December 2005 authorising Member States to take
decisions under Council Directive 1999/105/EC on
reproductive
assurances afforded in respect of
material produced in third countries (2), Member States
should be authorised to take decisions on whether certain
material
imported from those third countries offers
equivalent guarantees to those applicable to forest repro­
in
ductive material produced in the Community
accordance with Directive 1999/105/EC.

forest

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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 equivalent guarantees as regards the approval of its basic
material and the measures taken for its production with a view
to marketing as does forest reproductive material produced
within the Community and complying with the provisions of
Directive 1999/105/EC.

The forest reproductive material
listed in the Annex shall be
accompanied by a master certificate or an official certificate
issued by the country of origin and records which shall
to be
contain details of all consignments to be exported,
provided by the supplier in the third country.

(3)

In order to permit a future possible extension of the
Council Decision on the equivalence for forest repro­

Article 2

(1) OJ L 11, 15.1.2000, p. 17.
(2) OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 92.

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

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This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2014.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Country of origin

Species

Category

Type of basic material

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Picea abies Karst.

Pinus nigra Arnold

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Abies alba Mill.

Pinus radiata D. Don

New Zealand

Legend:

Category

SI Source Identified

Type of basic material

SS Seed Source
St Stand

SI

SI

SI

SI

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St

SS, St