CELEX: 31977D0783
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 November 1977 authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC

20. 12. 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 327/39
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 24 November 1977
             authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                   not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC
                                            (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                      (77/783/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   in its territory of a maximum of 8 000 tonnes of rice
COMMUNITIES,                                                     seed (Oryza, sativa L.) of the category 'certified seed of
                                                                 the second generation' which do not satisfy the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            requirements laid down in Annex II to the Council
 Economic Community,                                             Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 with regard to
 Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14             the maximum number of 'red grains', under the
June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed ( 1), as last          following conditions :
amended by Council Directive 75/444/EEC (2), and in              (a) the number of 'red grains' per 500 grams shall not
particular Article 17 thereof,                                       exceed 10 ;
Having regard to the request made by the Italian                 (b) the official label shall be marked as follows :
Republic,
                                                                     — 'Maximum number of red grains : 10 per 500
Whereas in the Italian Republic the production of                        grams'
rice seed complying with the requirements of the said
Directive has been insufficient in 1977 and therefore                — intended exclusively for Italy'.
will not be adequate to meet that country's needs ;
Whereas it is not possible sufficiently to cover this                                    Article 2
demand with seed from other Member States or from
third countries, meeting all the requirements laid               The Italian Republic shall notify the Commission
down in the said Directive ;                                     before 1 November 1978 of the quantities of seed
                                                                 marketed in its territory pursuant to this Decision.
Whereas the Italian Republic should therefore be auth­           The Commission shall inform the other Member
orized to permit, for a period expiring on 30 June               States thereof.
 1978, the marketing of seed of the abovementioned
species of a category subject to less stringent require­
ments ;                                                                                  Article 3
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing               This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agri­
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,
                                                                 Done at Brussels, 24 November 1977.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                            For the Commission
                         Article 1
                                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
The Italian Republic is hereby authorized to permit,
for a period expiring on 30 June 1978, the marketing                                            Vice-President
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2309/66.
(2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6.