CELEX: 51981PC0042
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Date: 1981-02-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directives 66/402/EEC and 66/403/EEC on the marketing of cereal seed and of seed potatoes (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                   Proposal for a
                              ■  COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
    amending Directives 66 / 402 /EEC and 66 / 403 / EEC on the marketing of cereal
                            seed and of seed potatoes
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(81 ) 42 final
 ---pagebreak---                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The rules on the marketing of cereal seeds provide for authorizations whereby,
subject to certain conditions , seed of which there has been no official field
inspection may be officially certified until 31 December 1980 .
The extension of the time limit provided for in this Directive would enable the
necessary experience to be gained so that a more general and definitive solution
could be found .
The Directive on the marketing of seed potatoes lays down as a general rule that ,
after 1 July 1975 , Member States may no longer establish on their own responsibility
the equivalence of inspections and checks carried out in non-member countries .
Greece , however, being a new Member State , is to bring these rules into force so
that it complies with the common plant-health arrangements with effect from 1
January 1983 . Since Greece had already decided, on its own responsibility , to
allow imports of seed potatoes produced in Canada , the period of validity of the
decision concerned should be extended so that Greece can use the seed potatoes in
question until 31 December 1982 .
 ---pagebreak---         Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directives 66 /402 / EEC and 66 /403 / EEC
on the marketing of cereal seed and of seed potatoes
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and in
particular Article 43 ,
Having regard to the propo^d !. from the Commission ,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ,
                                         1
 Whereas Council Directive 66 / 402 / EEC , as last amended by
                         2
 Directive 79 / 692 / EEC , allows seeds which have not
been the subject of an official field inspection to be certified officially under
certain conditions until 31 December 1980 ; whereas an additional period
should be granted in order that the necessary experience for a more general- and
definitive solution may be acquired ;
                                         3   . .   .     ...   . .   .               4
Whereas Council Directive 66 / 403 / EEC , as last amended by Directive 80 / 52 / EEC ,
provides that , after 1 July 1975 , Member States may no longer , in princiDle > estahlis
under their own responsibility the equivalence of inspections and checks carried out
 in third countries ;
Whereas , however, Member States have been authorized to extend the validity of
decisions on equivalence already taken by them , since the discussions "intended to
enable such equivalence to be established at Community level have not jpet been
completed; whereas , in practice , such extension has been applied in the case of
Canada only ;
 Whereas recourse to suGh extension is subject to the Community rules on plant health;
Whereas, in view of those rules , it would be pointless to extend the validity of
such decisions taken by the Member States of the Community of Nine ;
                                                 A
 1 0J No 125 , 11.7.1966, p. 2298/ 66
20J No L 205 , 13.8.1979, p.1
30J No 125 , 11.7.1966 , p. 2320 / 66
40J No L 18, 24.1.1980, p. 29                                      '' '
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Whereas , however , in the case of Greece , this new Member State must bring into
force the Laws , regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
with the provisions of the Community rules on plant health only with effect
from 1 January 1983 ;     whereas Greece had established under its own responsibility
the possibility of seed potatoes produced in Canada being introduced ;            whereas
the period of validity of such measures should therefore be extended in order
to enable Greece to make use of the abovementioned period , in respect of the
seed potatoes in question ;
Whereas the above-mentioned Directives should therefore be amended ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
                                  Article 1
In Article 2(2 ) ( d ) of Directive 66 / 402 / EEC , " 31 December 1980" shall be re­
placed by " 31 December 1982 ".
                                  Article 2
In Article 15(2 ) of Directive 66 / 403 / EEC ,     " 31 March 1980 " shall be replaced by
" 31 December 1982 ", without prejudice to the provisions of Council Directive
77 / 93 / EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the introduction
into the Member States of harmful organisms of plant or plant products , as
last amended by Directive 80/ 393 / EEC^.
                                  Article 3
1 . Member States shall bring into force the laws , regulations and administrative
     provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 1981 at the
     latest , in the case of Article 1 .
2 . Greece shall bring into force the laws , regulations and administrative pro­
     visions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 1981 at the
     latest , in the case of Article 2 .
                                  Article 4
This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
 5 0J No L 26 , 31.1.1977 , p.20
 60J No L 100, 17.4.1980, p.35