CELEX: 31977D0596
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 September 1977 authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

22 . 9 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 243/23
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 14 September 1977
              authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                   not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/40 1 /EEC
                                                       (77/596/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                             The French Republic is hereby authorized to permit
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14            for a period expiring on 31 October 1977 the
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),            marketing in its territory of a maximum of 800 tonnes
as last amended by Council Directive 75/444/EEC (2),            of red clover seed (Trifolium pratense L.) of the cate­
and in particular Article 17 thereof,                           gory 'certified seed' of the first generation of varieties
                                                                not included either in the common catalogue of varie­
Having regard to the request made by the French                 ties of agricultural plant species or in its national cata­
Republic.                                                       logues of varieties, or of the category 'commercial
                                                                seed'. The official label shall state : ' Intended exclu­
Whereas in the French Republic the production of
red clover seed complying with the requirements of              sively for France'.
the said Directive has been insufficient in 1976 and
therefore will not be adequate to meet that country's                                    Article 2
needs ;
                                                                The other Member States are hereby authorized to
Whereas it is not possible sufficiently to cover this           permit, subject to the conditions laid down in Article
demand with certified seed from other Member States,            1 , the rfiarketing in their territory of a maximum of
or from third countres, of varieties included either in         800 tonnes of red clover seed, provided that it is
the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural               intended exclusively for France. The official label
plant species or in the French national catalogues of           shall state : 'Intended exclusively for France'.
varieties ;
                                                                                         Article 3
Whereas the French Republic should therefore be
authorized to permit, for a period expiring on 31               Member States shall notify the Commission before 31
October 1 977, the marketing of seed of the abovemen­           December 1977 of the quantities of seed marketed in
tioned species of varieties not included either in the          their territory pursuant to this Decision . The Commis­
common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant             sion shall inform the other Member States thereof.
species or in the French national catalogues of varie­
ties, or of a category subject to less stringent require­
ments ;                                                                                  Article 4
Whereas, moreover, other Member States which are                This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
able to supply the French Republic with seed not
complying with the requirements of the Directive
should be authorized to permit the marketing of such            Done at Brussels, 14 September 1977.
seed provided that it is intended for France ;
                                                                                           For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing                                          Finn GUNDELACH
Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agri­
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,                                                            Vice-President
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2298 /66.
(') OJ No L 196, 26. 7 . 1975, p. 6.