CELEX: 51977PC0522
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-24
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 316/68 fixing quality standards for fresh cut flowers and fresh ornamental foliage (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(77 ) 522 final .
                                                    Brussels , 24 October 1977
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
    amending Regulation (EEC ) No 316/68 fixing quality standards
            for fresh, cut flowers and fresh ornamental foliage
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM ( 77 ) 522 final .
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Counoil Regulation ( EEC ) NO 316/68 of 12 March 1968 introduced quality
standards for fresh cut flowers and fresh ornamental foliage as
from 1 July 1968 . The Regulation lays down that produce subject to it may not ,
within the Community , he put on sale or sold at the wholesale stage either "by
traders or directly by the producers , if it does not comply with the quality
standards .
Many quality inspections are carried out during transport of the produce , and they
are not in all cases covered by the provisions of the Regulation .   In ordei-
to provide a legal basis for these inspections , the relevant provisions of
Regulation No 316/68 should be amplified .
 ---pagebreak---                           Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
amending Regulation (EEC ) No 316/68 fixing quality standards for
fresh cut flowers and fresh ornamental foliage
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) NO 234/68 of 27 February 1968
on the establishment of a common organization of the market in olive
trees and other plants , bulbs , roots and the like , cut flowers and
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ornamental foliage , and in particular Article 3 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the first indent of Article 2(1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC ) No
316/68 of 12 March 1968 fixing quality standards for fresh cut flowers
and fresh ornamental foliage , as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No
1155/76^, lays down that the produce specified in Article 1 which does
not comply with quality standards may not , within the Community , be put
on sale or sold at the wholesale stage either by traders or directly by
the producers ; whereas the above provision should be added to in order
also to permit inspection during transport ;
 OJ No L 55 , 2.3.1968 , p . 1
20J No L 71 , 21.3.1968, p. 8
30J No L 130 , 19.5.1976 , p. 26                                      ./.
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                              Article 1
The first indent of Article 2 ( l ) of Regulation (EEC ) NO 316/68 is here"by
amended to read as follows :               -
   within the Community , "be displayed for sale , put on sale , sold , delivered
w   or otherwise marketed at the wholesale stage either by traders or directly
w  "by the producers ,"
                              Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Offioial Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall "be binding in its entirety and directly ap^? Enable
in all Member States *
Done at Brussels ,                         For the Council
                                           The President