CELEX: 31976D0056
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 December 1975 authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of certain types of fodder plant seed satisfying less stringent requirements

No L 10 /44                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               17 . 1 . 76
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 19 December 1975
             authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of certain
                          types of fodder plant seed satisfying less stringent requirements
                                                 (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (76/56/ 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 authorized to permit, for a
                                                                      period which expires on 1 August 1976, the
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14                  marketing in its territory of 200 metric tons of Tall
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),
                                                                      fescue seed ( Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) belonging to
as last amended by the Council Directive of 26 June                   the category 'certified seed' of Alta and Fawn varieties
1975 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,
                                                                      which are neither included in the 'common catalogue
Having regard to the request made by the French                       of agricultural plant species' nor included in the
Republic,                                                             ' French catalogue of varieties'.
Whereas the production in France of certified seed of                                         Article 2
Tall fescue from varieties figuring in the ' French cata­
logue of varieties' does not entirely cover the needs of              The French Republic will report to the Commission
this country in certified seed of this species ;                      before 1 December 1976 the quantity of seed which
                                                                      has been marketed in its territory pursuant to this
Whereas it has not been possible to cover this                         Decision . The Commission        will inform the   other
demand by certified seed of Tall fescue coming from                   Member States thereof.
other Member States, of varieties included in the
'common catalogue of agricultural plant species', or                                          Article J
included in the ' French catalogue of varieties' ;
                                                                      This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
Whereas, it seems expedient to authorize the French
Republic to permit, for a period which expires on 1
August 1976, the marketing of certified seed of Tall                   Done at Brussels , 19 December 1975 .
fescue which belongs to the varieties Alta and Fawn ;
                                                                                                 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 Plants for Agriculture, Horti­
culture and Forestry,                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') O ) No 125 , 11 . 7 . 1966 , p . 2298 / 66 .
(-) O'j No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975 , p. 6 .