CELEX: 31976D0259
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 February 1976 authorizing the French Republic temporarily to permit the marketing of commercial seed of white clover subject to less stringent requirements

27. 2. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 52/35
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 17 February 1976
             authorizing the French Republic temporarily to permit the marketing of
                  commercial seed of white clover subject to less stringent requirements
                                             (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                       (76/259/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            The French Republic is authorized to permit the
Economic Community,                                              marketing in its territory, during the period expiring
Having regard to the Council Directive of 14 June                on 31 July 1976, of 100 metric tons of commercial
1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (*), as last          seed of the sub-species Trifoleum repens L, var. gigan­
amended by the Council Directive of 26 June                      teum, provided that the conditions in points 2 and 3
1975 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,                  of Part I of Annex II to Directive 66/401 / EEC are
                                                                 satisfied . The official label shall bear the endorsement
Having regard to the request made by the French                  'intended exclusively for marketing in France'.
Government,
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the production of seeds of the 'certified seed'
                                                                 The French Republic shall report to the Commission,
category of the sub-species Trifolium repens L, var.
                                                                 before 1 November 1976, the quantities of commer­
giganteum, is insufficient in 1975 and will not be
                                                                 cial seed marketed in its territory under this Decision.
adequate to supply French requirements ;
                                                                 The    Commission shall inform the other Member
Whereas the demand cannot be met from certified                  States thereof.
seed from other Member States ;
                                                                                           Article 3
Whereas the French Republic should therefore be
authorized, during the period expiring on 31 July                This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
1976, to permit the marketing of commercial seed of
 Trifoleum repens L., var. giganteum ;                           Done at Brussels, 17 February 1976.
                                                                                             For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,                                                  Member of the Commission
0 ) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p . 2298/66.
(2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p. 6.