CELEX: 31972D0350
Language: en
Date: 1972-10-04 00:00:00
Title: 72/350/EEC: Commission Decision of 4 October 1972 setting up an Advisory Committee on Seeds

Official Journal of the European Communities                                       11
No L 236 / 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                              18.10.72
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 4 October 1972
                                      setting up an Advisory Committee on Seeds
                                                      (72/350/EEC)
THE     COMMISSION      OF   THE     EUROPEAN -COM­            2. The following groups shall be represented on
MUNITIES,                                                      the Committee : agricultural producers, agricultural
                                                               cooperatives, the seed industry, wholesale traders
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   who grow their own seed, workers in the agricultural
European Economic Community;                                   sector and consumers .
Whereas, under point V of its final resolution, the
Agricultural Conference of Member States which met                                      Article 2
at Stresa from 3 to 12 July 1958 noted with
satisfaction 'the intention expressed by the
Commission      to  maintain    close   and   continuous       1 . The Committee may be consulted by the
cooperation with . . . trade organizations, in                 Commission on any problem concerning the
particular for the implementation of the tasks                 implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                               2358 /71 1 of 26 October 1971         on the common
provided for in this resolution';
                                                               organization of the market in seeds and in particular
Whereas, in its Opinion of 6 May 1960, the                     on measures adopted within the framework of that
Economic and Social Committee requested the                    Regulation .
Commission 'to involve at Community level
interested producers', traders' and employers'                 2.     The Chairman of the Committee may, in
organizations and consumers in the work of each of             particular at the request of any of the groups
these offices and funds within an Advisory                     represented, indicate to the Commission the
Committee';                                                    desirability of consulting the Committee on any
                                                               matter within the latter's competence but on which
Whereas it is necessary that the Commission obtain             its opinion has not been sought.
the views of the various sections of the industry and
of consumers cn problems arising from the
establishment of a common organization of the
market in seeds ;                                                                        Article 3
Whereas all sections of the industry directly affected         1.     The Committee shall consist of twenty-eight
by the introduction of that common organization of             members .
the market, and also consumers, should have the
possibility of participating in the formulation of
opinions requested by the Commission ;                         2.     Seats on the Committee shall be apportioned as
                                                               follows :
Whereas     the   various  representative     agricultural
bodies and consumer associations in the Member                 — fourteen to representatives of agricultural
States have formed organizations at Community                      producers and agricultural cooperatives, of whom
level;                                                              five shall represent seed-producing cooperatives ;
                                                               — nine to representatives of wholesale traders who
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                           grow their own seed, of whom four shall
                                                                    represent distributors growing their own seed ;
                        Article 1
                                                               — one to a representative of agricultural industries ;
1.     There shall be attached to the Commission an
Advisory Committee on Seeds (hereinafter called the
' Committee').                                                  1 OJ No L 246, 5.11.1971, p. 1 .
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 — three to representatives of workers in agriculture;           body of the group concerned to be present at
 — one to a consumers representative .
                                                                 meetings. He may in the same manner request any
                                                                 person with special qualifications in one of the
                                                                 subjects on the agenda to take part in an expert
                                                                 capacity in meetings of the Committee.
                        Article 4
                                                                 Experts shall be present only at the discussion in the
 1 . Members of the Committee shall be appointed                 Committee of those questions on account of which
 by the Commission on proposals from the trade or                they were invited.
 consumers' organizations set up at Community level
 which are most representative of the groups referred
to in Article 1 (2) and whose activities come within
                                                                                        Article 7
 the scope of the common organization of the market
 in seeds .
                                                                 The Committee may set up internal working parties .
 These organizations shall put forward the names of
 two candidates of different nationalities for each
place to be filled.
                                                                                        Article 8
2.     The  term    of office    for  members     of   the       1.   The Committee shall be convened by the
 Committee shall be three years. Their appointments              Commission      and   shall    meet  at   Commission
 may be renewed. The duties performed shall be                  headquarters . Meetings of the offficers shall be
 unremunerated .                                                 convened by the Chairman in agreement with the
                                                                Commission.
After expiry of the three years, members of the
 Committee shall remain in office until they are
replaced or until their appointments are renewed.               2.    Representatives of the Commission departments
                                                                 concerned shall take part in meetings of the
In the event of the death or resignation of a member             Committee, its officers and its working parties .
of the Committee or of his ceasing to belong to the
organization which he represents, he shall be replaced          3.    The Commission shall provide secretarial
for the remainder of his term of office in accordance
                                                                services for the Committee, its officers and its
with the procedure laid down in paragraph 1 .                    working parties.
3 . The list of members shall be published by the
Commission for information purposes in the Official                                     Article 9
Journal of the European Communities.
                                                                 1.   The Committee shall discuss matters on which
                                                                the Commission has requested an opinion. No vote
                        Article 5                               shall be taken .
The Committee shall, by a two-thirds majority of
                                                                2.    The Commission may, when seeking the
members present, elect a Chairman and two                       opinion of the Committee, set a time limit within
Vice-Chairmen for a period of three years.             '
                                                                which such opinion shall be given.
It may, by the same majority, elect other members as
officers. In that case, the officers other than the             3 . The views expressed by the groups represented
Chairman     shall   include    not   more     than   one       shall be included in a report of the proceedings
representative of each group represented on the                 forwarded to the Commission.
Committee .
                                                                In the event of unanimous agreement being reached
The officers shall prepare and organize the work of             in the Committee on the opinion to be given, the
the Committee .                                                 Committee shall formulate joint conclusions and
                                                                attach them to the report.
                        Article 6
                                                                The outcome of the Committee's discussions shall be
At the request of any of the groups represented, the            communicated by the Commission to the Council or
Chairman may invite a representative of the central             the Management Committee on request.
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                      Article 10                                                    Article 11
Without prejudice to Lie provisions of Article 214 of       This Decision may be amended by the Commission
the Treaty, where the Commission informs them that          in the light of experience.
the opinion requested is on a matter of a confidential
nature, members of the Committee shall not disclose
information which has come to their knowledge               Done at Brussels, 4 October 1972 .
through the work of the Committee.
                                                                                              For the Commissiorr
In such cases, only Committee members and the
                                                                                                  The President
representatives of the Commission departments shall
be present at the meetings.                                                                    S. L. MANSHOLT