CELEX: 31976D0942
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 December 1976 authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed of white clover and red clover not satisfying existing Community requirements

31 . 12 . 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 364/ 29
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 2 December 1976
               authorizing the French Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed of white
                          clover and red clover not satisfying existing Community requirements
                                    ( Only the French, Danish and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                          ( 76/942/EEC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
  COMMUNITIES ,
                                                                                                Article 1
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community,                                         1.      The French Republic is authorized to permit
                                                                    during a period expiring on 31 July 1977 the
 Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of                   marketing in its territory of :
  14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant                      ( a ) a maximum of 400 metric tons of commercial
  seed ('), as last amended by Council Directive                           seed of white clover of the sub-species Trifolium
 75 /444/E.EC of 26 June 1975 ( 2), and in particular                       repens L. var. gigantum ;
 Article 17 thereof,
                                                                     ( b ) a maximum of 1 000 metric tons of red clover
Having regard to the request made by the French                            seed ( Trifolium pratense L. ) of the categories
 Republic,                                                                 'commercial seed' or first generation 'certified
                                                                           seed' belonging to varieties included neither in
 Whereas the production of seeds of the 'certified                         the ' Common Catalogue of varieties of
seed' category of white clover of the sub-species                          agricultural plant species' nor in its national
Trifolium repens L. var. Giganteum and of red                              catalogues of varieties ;
clover ( Trifolium pratense L. ) is insufficient in 1976
and will not be adequate to supply French                                  The official label shall state : 'intended exclusively
 requirements ;                                                            for France'.
Whereas it is not possible to meet this demand                       2.       The Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of
satisfactorily by resorting to ' certified seed' from                the Netherlands are authorized to permit, subject to
other Member States, or even third countries,                       the requirements as above, the marketing in their
belonging to varieties included either in the 'Common               territories of a maximum of 1 000 metric tons of red
Catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species'               clover seeds, provided that such seed is intended
or in the ' French national catalogues of varieties';               exclusively for the French Republic. The official
                                                                    label shall state : 'intended exclusively for France'.
Whereas it is desirable therefore to authorize the
French Republic to permit, for a period expiring on                                            Article 2
31 July 1977, the marketing of seed of white and red
                                                                    The French Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark and
clover as specified above meeting less stringent                    the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall notify the
requirements ;                                                      Commission , before 1 November 1977, as to the
                                                                    quantities of seed marketed in their territories under
Whereas it is necessary, moreover, to authorize other               this Decision . The Commission shall inform the
Member States which are in a position to supply the                 other Member States accordingly.
French Republic with red clover seed meeting less
stringent requirements to permit the marketing of                                              Article 3
such seed, provided that it is intended exclusively for
the French Republic ;                                               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic,
                                                                    the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                  Netherlands .
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
                                                                    Done at Brussels, 2 December 1976.
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
(>) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p . 2298/66.
( 2 ) OJ No L 196, 26. 7. 1975, p . 6 .                                                     Member of the Commission