CELEX: 31974D0364
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 June 1974 provisionally authorizing the French Republic to prohibit the marketing, in France, of dwarf french bean seed of the variety 'Koralle'

No L 196/22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                19. 7. 74
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 13 June 1974
               provisionally authorizing the French Republic to prohibit the marketing, in France,
                                      of dwarf french bean seed of the variety 'Koralle'
                                                  (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (74/364/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the Community has not yet laid down
COMMUNITIES,                                                          comprehensive and uniform rules governing the
                                                                      admission of french bean varieties ; whereas,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          nevertheless, crop examination of the variety
European Economic Community;                                          'Koralle' should be carried out, under Community
Having      regard     to    the    Council      Directive   of       responsibility, in order to arrive at a uniform
29 September 1970 (*) on the marketing of vegetable                   conclusion regarding its homogeneity ;
seed, as last amended by the Council Directive of                     Whereas it is appropriate therefore to accede
11 December 1973 (2), and in particular Article 16 (2)                provisionally to the request of the French Republic,
thereof;
                                                                      while awaiting the outcome of the results of these
Having regard to the request made by the French                       crop examinations ;
Republic;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Whereas the variety of dwarf french beans 'Koralle'                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Standing
has been accepted in two Member States in                             Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
accordance with' principles which comply with those                   Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
of the abovementioned Directive and also of the
Commission Directive of 14 April 1972 (3) on
determining the characteristics and minimum                           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
conditions for inspecting vegetable varieties ; whereas,
consequently, it is published in the ' Common                                                Article 1
Catalogue of varieties of vegetables species' (4), and                The French Republic is authorized, pending a further
therefore, in accordance with the provisions of                       Decision, to prohibit the marketing in its territory,
Article 16 ( 1 ) of the aforesaid Directive, the seed of              of dwarf french bean seed of the variety 'Koralle',
this variety is not subject within the Community to                   published in the Common Catalogue of varieties of
any marketing restrictions relating to variety ;                      vegetable species.
Whereas the variety 'Koralle' has been subjected, in
France, to official examinations which also complied                                         Article 2
with the principles of the Commission Directive of
14 April 1972 ;                                                       The French Republic shall inform the Commission
                                                                      from which date and according to what methods it
Whereas according to the results of these                             will avail of the authorization given in Article 1 . The
examinations and in comparison with national rules                    Commission shall inform the other Member States .
governing the acceptance of varieties in France, and
applicable within the framework of the definitions                                            Article 3
prescribed under Article 5 of the Directive quoted in
the citation, the variety is not sufficiently uniform ;               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
whereas, in particular, the degree of homogeneity of
the leaf colour, length and transversal cut of the pod,               Done at Brussels, 13 June 1974.
(characteristics listed under Nos 3 , 5.1 and 5.2 of
point 29 'French beans' of Annex I to the                                                       For the Commission
abovementioned Directive             on determining the                                             The President
characteristics) does not            comply with French
requirements ;                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (»)  OJ No  L  225 , 25 . 10. 1970, p. 7.
 (2)  OJ No  L 356, 27. 12. 1973 , p. 79.
 ( 3) OJ No  L 103 , 2. 5 . 1972, p. 6 .
 (4)  OJ No  C 69, 29. 6. 1972, p. 74.