CELEX: 31977D0689
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27 October 1977 authorizing the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC

No L 284/ 14                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 11 . 77
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 27 October 1977
             authorizing the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                      not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC
                                                           (77/689/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      on its territory of common wheat seed (Tritieum
COMMUNITIES,                                                        aestivum L.) — winter wheat — up to a maximum of
                                                                    13 000 tonnes of the categories 'Certified seed of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               first generation' or 'Certified seed of the second gener­
Economic Community,                                                 ation' subject to less stringent requirements with
Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/ EEC of 14                regard to minimum germination capacity laid down
June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed ('), as last              in    Annex    II  to   Council     Directive 66/402/ EEC
amended by Council Directive 75/444/ EEC (2), and in                provided that the following requirements are satisfied :
particular Article 17 thereof,                                      (a) the germination capacity is at least 80 % of pure
                                                                         seed ;
Having regard to the request made by the United
Kingdom,                                                            (b) the official label shall bear the supplementary indi­
                                                                         cation :
Whereas in the United Kingdom the production of                          — 'minimum germination 80 % ',
common wheat (winter wheat) seed complying with
requirements of the said Directive has been insuffi­                     — 'intended exclusively for the United Kingdom'.
cient in 1977 and is not adequate to supply the needs
of that country ;                                                                            Article 2
Whereas it has not been possible to cover these needs               The other Member States are authorized to permit,
immediately by 'certified seed' from other Member                   subject to the conditions laid down in Article 1 , the
States or even from third countries, meeting all the                marketing in their territories of a maximum of 13 000
requirements laid down in the said Directive ;                      tonnes of common wheat (winter wheat) seed provided
                                                                    that such seed is intended exclusively for the United
Whereas the United Kingdom should therefore be                      Kingdom .
authorized to permit, for a period expiring on 15
November 1977, the marketing of seed of the above­                  The official label shall state : ' Intended exclusively for
mentioned species of a category subject to less strin­              the United Kingdom '.
gent requirements ;
                                                                                             Article 3
Whereas it also appears desirable to authorize other
Member States which are able to supply the United                   The Member States shall notify the Commission
Kingdom with this seed not complying with require­                  before 31 March 1978 of the quantities of seed
ments of the Directive to permit the marketing of                   marketed in their territories pursuant to this Decision .
such seed provided that it is intended exclusively for              The Commission shall inform the other Member
the United Kingdom ;                                                States thereof.
Whereas the Standing Committee on Seed and Propa­                                            Article 4
gating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Fore­
stry has not delivered an opinion within the time                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
limit set by its chairman ,
                                                                    Done at Brussels, 27 October 1977 .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                                For the Commission
                           Article 1
                                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
The United Kingdom is authorized to permit for a
period expiring on 15 November 1977 the marketing                                                   Vice-President
(») OJ No 125, 11 . 7 . 1966, p . 2309/ 66.
(2 ) OJ No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975, p . 6 .