CELEX: 51986PC0176
Language: en
Date: 1986-04-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 66/403/EEC ON THE MARKETING OF SEED POTATOES

No C 97/8                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 25.4.86
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                         3. In Annex A, the text under the heading Lepidoptera is
                                                                        replaced by:
                          Article 1                                     LEPIDOPTERA
                                                                        Butterflies and moths
Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 is hereby amended as
                                                                        Papilionidae      Omitboptera spp. = 356          (C 2)
follows:
                                                                        Swallowtails     Birdwing butterflies
1. In Part 1 of Annex C, under the heading Lepidoptera,                                  Parnassius apollo                 (Cl)
    Omitboptera spp. = 356, Trogonoptera spp. = 356                                      Apollo butterfly or mountain apollo
    and Troides spp. = 356 are deleted.
                                                                                          Trogonoptera spp. = 356         (C 2)
2. In Part 2 of Annex C, the following text shall be                                     Birdwing butterflies
    included before the heading Anthozoa:                                                 Troides spp. = 356              (C 2)
                                                                                         Birdwing butterflies
                           'INSECTA
                                                                                                Article 2
    LEPIDOPTERA
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
    Papilionidae,
                                                                     publication in the Official Journal of the European
    Onithoptera spp. = 356,                                           Communities.
     Trogonoptera spp. = 356,                                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
     Troides spp. = 356'.                                            directly applicable in all Member States.
               Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed
                                                              potatoes
                                                        COM(86) 176 final
                                 (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 11 April 1986)
                                                           (86/C 97/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             period of validity of equivalences which they had already
                                                                     determined in respect of certain countries not covered by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                     the Community equivalences;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                             Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the said
                                                                     final date should be deferred to 31 March 1986;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                     Whereas this measure does not affect Member States'
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                    obligations under the common rules on plant health laid
liament,                                                             down by Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December
                                                                      1976 on protective measures against the introduction
Whereas Directive 66/403/EEC ('), as last amended by                 into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (2), provides that               or plant products (3), as last amended by Regulation
in principle from 1 July 1975 onwards Member States                  (EEC) No 3768/85,
may no longer determine for themselves the equivalence
of seed potatoes harvested in third countries with basic             HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
seed potatoes or certified seed potatoes harvested within
the Community and complying with that Directive;                                                Article 1
Whereas, however, since work to establish Community                  In Article 15 (2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC, '31 January
equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not             1984' is hereby replaced by '31 March 1986'.
yet been completed, Article 15 (2a) of that Directive                                           Article 2
permits Member States to extend to 31 January 1984 the
                                                                     This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
(') OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2320/66.
O OJ No L 362, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8.                                   O OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.