CELEX: 51976PC0663
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Date: 1976-12-13
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 315/68 fixing quality standards for flowering bulbs, corms and tubers (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                 COM(76)663 final
                                                 Brussels, 13 December 1976
                                 Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                 amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/68 fixing quality
                 standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers
                    ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(76 ) 663 final
 ---pagebreak---                         EXPLANATORY NOTE
Subject : Proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation ( EEC ) NO 315/60
           fixing the quality standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers
            Council Regulation ( EEC ) NO 315/68 fixing the quality standards for
flowering bulbs , corms and tubers fixed common quality standards for an important
number of flowering bulbs , corms and tubers . However during discussions recently
held in the Management Committee for Live Plants and Floricultural Products , the
desire has been expressed that the standard should be completed by provisions
concerning the minimum size and sizing for other varieties of the products referred
to above .
            This Regulation has as its objective the insertion of these varieties
to the list appearing in Chapter 3 'Sizing' of the annexe to Regulation (EEC )
NO 315/68.
 ---pagebreak---                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/ 68 fixing quality standards for flowering
bulbs , corms and tubers
                                    THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                                    Having regard to the Treaty establishing
                                    the European Economic Community,
                                    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)
                                    No 234/68 of 27 February 1968 on the
                                    establishment of a common organization of
                                    the market in live trees and other plants ,
                                    bulbs , roots and the like , cut flowers and
                                                       1
                                    ornamental foliage , and in particular
                                    Article 3 thereof,
                                    Having regard to the proposal from the
                                    Commission ,
Whereas the Annex to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/68 of 12 March 1968
                                                                   2
fixing quality standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers , as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 949/75 "^f lays down provisions on size
gradings ; whereas these provisions do not apply to products of the
following genusess Allium, Anemone , Chionodoxa, Endymion , Pritillaria,
Puschkinia, Tigridia, Triteleia, and to the Scilla sibirica species , its
cultivars and hybrids with the exception of the atrocairulea ( Spring Beauty)
cultivar ; whereas , in order further to achieve the objectives of the
quality standards , provisions on size grading should also be laid down for
these products ,
                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                          ./•
 OJ No L 55 , 2.3.1968, p . 1
20J No L 71 , 21.3.1968, p . 1
30J No L 91. 12.4.1975» P. 14
 ---pagebreak---  Article 1
         There shall be added to the table in Chapter III of the Annex
to Regulation (EEC ) No 315/68, in alphabetical order * the products listed
in the Annex and the provisions respectively relating to them *
Article 2
         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1st July 1977 *
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States *
                                  Done at Brussels
                                  For the Commission
                                  The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                           ANNEX
Botanical description of products   Method of  Minimum   Size gradings
                                    grading     Size
Alliura aflatunense , christophii   A,B,C      9.0 cm  9-10,10-12,12-1.
          and karataviense                             14 and over
Allium giganteum                    A,B,C     18.0 cm  18-20 , 20-24 , 2o
                                                       and over
Allium oreophilum                   A,B,C      3.5 cm  3,5-4,4-5.5-6,
                                                       6 and over
Anemone blanda , its cultivars      A,B,C      4.0 cm  4-5»5-7»7
        and hybrids                                    and over
Anemone St. Bavo , its cultivars    A,B,C      4«0 cm  4-5 , 5-6 , 6-7 ,
        and hybrids                                    7 and over
Chionodoxa gigantea , luciliae      A,B,C      4.0 cm  4-5,5-7,7
        and sard ens is                                and over
Endymion hispanicus Syn 0 Scilla    A,B,C      7.0 cm  7-8,8-^9,9-10,
 campanulata , its cultivars and                       10-12,12 and
 hybrids                                               over
Fritillaria imperialis , its culti- A,B,C     20.0 cm  20-22,22-26, 26
         vars and hybrids                              and over
         vars and hybrids
Puschkinia scilloides libanotica    AJB F C    4.0 cm  4-5,5-7,7 and
                                                       over
Scillia sibirica , its cultivars    A,B,C      6.0 cm  6–7 , 7–8 , 8–1 0 ,
         and hybrids excluding                         10 and over
         cultivar atrocaerulea
Tigridia pavonia Syn . Ferraria its Α,Β,Ο      5.0 cm  5-6,6-7,7-8,8- 11
         cultivars and hybrids                         10 and over
Triteleia Syn . Brodiaea laxa and   Α,Β,Ο          «m  4-5,5-7,7
         Koningin Fabiola                              and over