CELEX: 31977D0663
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 October 1977 amending Decision 77/222/EEC and 77/397/EEC authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

25. 10 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 272/9
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 13 October 1977
              amending Decisions 77/222/EEC and 77/397/EEC authorizing the Italian Repu­
              blic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requir­
                                       ements of Council Directive 66/401 / EEC
                                                       (77/663/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas this period should therefore be extended ;
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Economic Community,                                             Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14            Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (1),
as last amended by Council Directive 75/444/EEC (2),            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
and in particular Article 17 thereof,
Having regard to the request made by the Italian                                       Article 1
Republic,
                                                                In Article 1 of Decision 77/222/EEC and in Article 1
Whereas in Italy the production of seed of the cate­
gory 'certified seed' of red clover (Trifolium patense          (2) of Decision 77/397/EEC, for '31 July 1977' read
                                                                '31 October 1977'.
L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) was insuffi­
cient in 1976 and therefore will not be adequate to
meet that country's needs ;                                                            Article 2
Whereas Commission Decisons 77/222/EEC of 3                     This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
March 1977 (3) and 77/397/EEC of 10 May 1977(4)
have already authorized the Italian Republic to market
700 tonnes of red clover seed and 1 00 tonnes of white
                                                                Done at Brussels, 13 October 1977.
clover seed not complying with the requirements of
Council Directive 66/401 /EEC, for a period which
expired on 31 July 1977 ;                                                                For the Commission
Whereas this period has not been sufficient to permit                                     Finn GUNDELACH
the marketing of all seed covered by this Decision
down to the ultimate user :                                                                  Vice-President
 (!) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1 966, p. 2298/66.
 (2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6.
 (3) OJ No L 68, 15. 3 . 1977, p. 33 .
 b) OJ No L 147, 15. 6. 1977, p. 43.