CELEX: 31978D0159
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 January 1978 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

No L 47/50                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  18 . 2. 78
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 13 January 1978
              authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to permit temporarily the
              marketing of seed not complying with requirements of Council Directive
                                                        66/401 / EEC
                                                       (78 / 159/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                The Federal Republic of Germany is hereby autho­
                                                                   rized to permit for a period expiring on 31 July 1978
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 / EEC of 14              the marketing in its territory of a maximum of 300
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (*),               tonnes of red clover seed (Trifolium pratense L.) of the
as last amended by Council Directive 75/444/ EEC of                category 'certified seed of the first generation' of varie­
26 June 1 975 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,           ties not included either in the common catalogue of
Having regard to the request made by the Federal                   varieties of agricultural plant species or in its national
Republic of Germany,                                               catalogues of varieties. The official label shall state :
                                                                   'intended exclusively for Germany'.
Whereas in Germany the production of red clover
seed complying with requirements of the said Direc­                                         Article 2
tive has been insufficient in 1977 and therefore will
not be adequate to meet that country's needs ;                     The other Member States are authorized to permit,
                                                                   subject to the conditions laid down in Article 1 , the
Whereas it has not been possible to cover these needs              marketing in their territories of a maximum of 300
sufficiently with seed from other Member States or                 tonnes of red clover seed, provided that it is intended
even from third countries, meeting all the require­                exclusively for Germany. The official label shall state :
ments with regard to variety ;                                     'intended exclusively for Germany'.
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany should                                              Article 3
therefore be authorized to permit, for a period
expiring on 31 July 1978 , the marketing of seed of                The Member States shall notify the Commission
the abovementioned species of varieties not included               before 31 December 1978 of the quantities of seed
either in the common catalogue of varieties of agricul­            marketed in their territories pursuant to this Decision.
tural plant species or in the national catalogues of               The Commission        shall inform    the other Member
varieties of the Federal Republic of Germany ;                     States thereof.
Whereas it appears also desirable to authorize other                                        Article 4
Member States which are able to supply the Federal
                                                                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Republic of Germany with this seed not complying
with requirements of the Directive to permit the
marketing of such seed provided that it is intended for             Done at Brussels, 13 January 1978 .
Germany ;
                                                                                              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 .
(2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6 .