CELEX: 31976D0722
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 August 1976 authorizing in particular the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of seed of red clover subject to less stringent requirements

No L 245/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  7 . 9 . 76
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not ob/i^iitory)
                                                   COMMISSION
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 17 August 1976
             authorizing in particular the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the
                   marketing of seed of red clover subject to less stringent requirements
                           (Only the English , French , German and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                          (76/722/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas in addition it is necessary to authorize those
COMMUNITIES,                                                        other Member States which are able to supply the
                                                                    United Kingdom with red clover seed subject to less
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               stringent requirements to permit the marketing of
Economic Community,                                                 such seed provided that it is intended exclusively for
                                                                    the United Kingdom ;
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 / EEC of 14
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
as last amended by Council Directive 75/444/ EEC of                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
26 June 1975 (2 ), and in particular Article 17 thereof,            Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
                                                                    Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
 Having regard to the request made by the United
Kingdom ,
Whereas in the United Kingdom the production of
seed of the category 'certified seed' of red clover has
been insufficient in 1975 and therefore will not be                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
adequate to supply United Kingdom requirements ;
Whereas it has not been possible to cover sufficiently
this demand by 'certified seed ' from other Member                                          Article 1
States or even      from    third countries, of varieties
included in the ' Common catalogue of varieties of agri­
cultural plant species' or included in the United                    1.    The United Kingdom is authorized to permit for
Kingdom catalogues of varieties ;                                   a period expiring on 30 September 1976 the
                                                                    marketing in its territory of a maximum of 450 metric
Whereas the United Kingdom should therefore be                      tons of red clover seed (Trifolium pratense L.) of the
authorized to permit, for a period expiring on 30                   category 'commercial seed ' or of the category 'certified
September 1976, the marketing of seed of red clover                 seed ' of the first generation of varieties not included
subject to less stringent requirements ;                            in the ' Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural
                                                                    plant species' or in its national catalogues of varieties .
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7 . 1966 , p . 2298 / 66 .                      The official label shall state : ' Intended exclusively for
 -) OJ No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975, p . 6 .                             the United Kingdom '.
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2. The Federal Republic of Germany, the French              Decision . The Commission shall inform the other
Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are             Member States thereof.
authorized to permit, subject to the requirements as
above, the marketing in their territories of a                                   Article 3
maximum of 450 metric tons of red clover seed,
provided that such seed is intended exclusively for the     This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom,
United Kingdom . The official label shall state :           the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Repu­
' Intended exclusively for the United Kingdom'.             blic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
                        Article 2
                                                            Done at Brussels, 17 August 1976.
The United Kingdom , the Federal Republic of
                                                                                    For the Commission
Germany, the French Republic and the Kingdom of
the Netherlands shall notify the Commission before 1                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
November 1976, of the quantities of seed which has
been marketed in their territories pursuant to this                             Member of the Commission