CELEX: 31977D0784
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 November 1977 authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

No L 327/40                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              20 . 12 . 77
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 24 November 1977
               authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                     not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401 /EEC
                                                         (77/784/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                          Article 1
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                              The French Republic is hereby authorized to permit
                                                                  for a period expiring on 31 October 1978 the
 Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14             marketing in its territory of a maximum of 250 tonnes
June 1 966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),             of timothy seed (Phleum pratense L.) of the category
as last amended by Directive 75/444/EEC (2), and in               'certified seed' of the first generation of varieties not
 particular Article 17 thereof,                                   included either in the common catalogue of varieties
 Having regard to the request made by the French                  of agricultural plant species or in its national cata­
                                                                  logues of varieties.
 Republic,
                                                                  The official label shall state : ' Intended exclusively for
Whereas in the French Republic the production of                  France '.
 timothy seed complying with the requirements of the
 said Directive has been insufficient in 1977 and there­                                  Article 2
 fore will not be adequate to meet that country's
needs ;                                                           The other Member States are hereby authorized to
                                                                  permit, subject to the conditions laid down in Article
 Whereas it is not possible sufficiently to cover this             1 , the marketing in their territory of a maximum of
demand with seed from other Member States, or from                250 tonnes of timothy seed, provided that it is
 third countries, meeting all the requirements laid               intended exclusively for France. The official label
down in the said Directive ;                                      shall state : 'Intended exclusively for France'.
Whereas the French Republic should therefore be                                           Article 3
 authorized to permit, for a period expiring on 31
October 1978 , the marketing of seed of the abovemen­             Member States shall notify the Commission before 31
 tioned species of varieties not included either in the           December 1978 if the quantities of seed marketed in
 common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant              their territory pursuant to this Decision . The Commis­
 species or in the French national catalogues of varie­           sion shall inform the other Member States thereof.
 ties ;
                                                                                          Article 4
Whereas, moreover, other Member States, which are
 able to supply the French Republic with seed not                 This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
 complying with the requirements of the Directive,
should be authorized to permit the marketing of such               Done at Brussels, 24 November 1977.
 seed provided that it is intended for France ;
                                                                                             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
( i ) OJ No 125, 11 . 7 . 1966, p . 2298 / 66 .
\2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6.