CELEX: 51988PC0179
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-08
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 66/403/EEC ON THE MARKETING OF SEED POTATOES

28. 4. 88                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No C 111/9
             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 6 6/4 03/EEC on the marketing of seed
                                                           potatoes
                                                     COM(88) 179 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 14 April 1988)
                                                        (88/C 111/13)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES;                          the period of validity of equivalence which they had
                                                                  already determined in respect of certain countries not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             covered by the Community equivalences;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                          Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the said
                                                                  final date should be replaced by a later date;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                  Whereas the present text of Article 15 (2a) of the
Having regard      to   the   opinion    of  the  European        Directive may lead to uncertainty and should therefore
Parliament,                                                       be simplified,
Whereas Council Directive 66/403/EEC of 14 June                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes ('), as last
amended by Directive 87/374/EEC (2), provides that in                                     Article 1
principle, with effect from certain dates, Member States
                                                                  In Article 15 (2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC:
may no longer determine for themselves the equivalence
of seed potatoes harvested in third countries with seed           (a) in the first sentence, '31 March 1987' is hereby
potatoes harvested within the Community and complying                  replaced by *31 March 1988', and 'before 1 July
with that Directive;                                                   1975' is deleted;
                                                                  (b) The second sentence is deleted.
Whereas, however, since work to establish Community
equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not                                 Article 2
been completed, Article 15 (2a) of that Directive
permitted Member States to extend to 31 March 1987,               This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
 (') OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2320/66.
 (2) OJ No L 197, 18. 7. 1987, p. 36.