CELEX: 31977D0222
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 March 1977 authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

15 . 3 . 77                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 68 / 33
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 3 March 1977
              authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                   not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/401 / EEC
                                                          (77/ 222/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                              Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  The Italian Republic is hereby authorized to permit
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 / EEC of 14                for a period expiring on 31 July 1977 the marketing
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),                 in its territory of a maximum of 700 tonnes of red
as last amended by Directive 75/444/ EEC (2), and in                 clover seed ( Trifolium pratense L.) of the category
particular Article 17 thereof,                                       'certified seed' of the first generation of varieties not
                                                                     included either in the common catalogue of varieties
Having regard to the request made by the Italian                     of agricultural plant species or in its national cata­
Republic,                                                            logues of varieties, or of the category 'commercial
                                                                     seed '. The official label shall state : ' Intended exclu­
Whereas in the Italian Republic the production of red                sively for Italy'.
clover seed complying with the requirements of the
said Directive has been insufficient in 1976 and there­
                                                                                              Article 2
fore will not be adequate to meet that country's
needs ;                                                              The other Member States are hereby authorized to
Whereas it is not possible sufficiently to cover this                permit, subject to the conditions laid down in Article
demand with certified seed from other Member States,                  1 , the marketing in their territory of a maximum of
or from third countries, of varieties included either in             700 tonnes of red clover seed , provided that it is
the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural                    intended exclusively for Italy. The official label shall
plant species or in the Italian national catalogues of               state : ' Intended exclusively for Italy'.
varieties ;
                                                                                              Article 3
Whereas the Italian Republic should therefore be auth­
orized to permit, for a period expiring on 31 July                   Member States shall notify the Commission before 1
 1977, the marketing of seed of the abovementioned                   November 1977 of the quantities of seed marketed in
species of varieties not included either in the common               their territory pursuant to this Decision . The Commis­
catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species or in           sion shall inform the other Member States thereof.
the Italian national catalogues of varieties, or of a cate­
gory subject to less stringent requirements ;                                                 Article 4
Whereas moreover other Member States , which are                     This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
able to supply the Italian Republic with seed not
complying with the requirements of the Directive,
should be authorized to permit the marketing of such                 Done at Brussels , 3 March 1977 .
seed provided that it is intended for Italy ;
                                                                                                For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing                                               Finn GUNDELACH
Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agri­
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,                                                                 Vice-President
(') OJ No 125, II . 7 . 1966, p . 2298 / 66 .
(2 ) OJ No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975, p. 6 .