CELEX: 31976D0055
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 December 1975 authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of certain types of fodder plant seed satisfying less stringent requirements

17. 1 . 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 10 /43
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 19 December 1975
              authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of certain
                       types of fodder plant seed satisfying less stringent requirements
                                              (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                         (76/55/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              The Italian Republic is authorized to allow the
Economic Community,                                                marketing on its territory for a period expiring on 31
                                                                   October 1976 of :
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (•),               (a) 400 metric tons of commercial seed of tall fescue
as last amended by the Council Directive of 26 June                    (Festuca arundinacea Schr.) and
1975 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,                    (b) 1 000 metric tons of commercial seed of field pea
                                                                       (Pisum arvense L.),
Having regard to the request made by the Italian                   provided that the packages have been officially sealed
Republic,                                                          and labelled before 1 July 1976 and the label bears
Whereas the production of seeds from the category                  the statement 'only intended for marketing in Italy'.
'certified seed' of the species Festuca arundinacea                                        Article 2
Schr., and Pisum arvense L., is insufficient in 1975
                                                                   The Italian Republic will report to the Commission
and will not be adequate to meet the requirements of               before 1 December 1976 the quantities of commercial
the Italian Republic ;                                             seed marketed in its territory under the authority of
Whereas it is not possible to meet the demand with                 the present Decision . The Commission will inform
'certified seed' from the other Member States ;                    the other Member States of these quantities.
                                                                                           Article 3
Whereas, therefore, it is expedient to authorize the
Italian Republic to allow the marketing of commercial              This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
seed of the abovementioned species for a period
expiring on 31 October 1976 ;                                      Done at Brussels, 19 December 1975 .
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                           For the Commission
are in accordance with the opinion of the Permanent                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
Committee of Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry
Plants,                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p . 2298 /66 .
(-') OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6 .