CELEX: 51976PC0665
Language: en
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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 COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                                     COM(76)665 final
                                                   v 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)          i  \
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                                                      /
COM(76 ) 665 final
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" ^.iect : Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/68
           fixing the quality standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers
              Council Regulation ( EEC ) NO 315/68 of 12 March 1968 introduced quality
standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers , which are applicable since 1st July
1968 . This regulation lays down that the products covered by the regulation may not
be , within the Community , displayed for sale , offered for sale , sold or delivered to
the consumer for his personal needs by a trader or directly by a producer if they do
not conform to the quality standards .
              A large part of bulbs intended for the personal use of consumers are
packed by enterprises which do not justify the provisions foreseen in the above
mentioned regulation by virtue of the fact that they deliver neither to traders or
consumers but to other intermediaries in the trade .. To ensure an effective control
of bulbs packed by these enterprises , it is advisable to create the possibility to
make these controls at all the enterprises which pack these bulbs .
              The provisions of the attached regulation has as its objective to
allow these controls at all stages of the trade .
 ---pagebreak---                              proposal for a
             •   COUNCIL. REGULATION (EEC )            "
  amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/68 fixing quality standards for flowering
  bulbs , corms and tubers
                                   THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COKMUJTITIES , •
                                   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 esta­
                                   blishment of a common organization of the
                                   market in live trees and other plants , bulbs ,
                                   roots and the like , cut flowers and ornamental
                                   foliage\ and in particular Article 3 thereof,
                                   Having regard to the proposal from the
                                   Commission ,
Whereas the first indent of Article 2(l ) of Council Regulation No 315/68 of
                                                                                    2
12 March i960 fixing quality standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers ,
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 949/74^» provides that if produce listed
in Article 1 does not conform to the quality standards it may not within the
Community be displayed for sale , offered for sale , sold or delivered to the
consumer for his personal needs by a trawler or direotly by a producer ;
Whereas produce intended for consumers may be packed at the production stage
or at the wholesale stage ;
Whereas , to ensure simpler and more effective control , the packed produce
should be subjected to the quality standards ,
                                                                                ./.
1 OJ No L 55 of 2 . 3.1968 , p. 1
Z OJ No L 71 of 21.3.1968 , p. -1 . .
   OJ No L 91 of 12.3.1975 , P. 14
 ---pagebreak---                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
article 1
         There shall "be added to Article 2(l ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 315/68
a new first indent as follows :
n - within the Community to be prepared for the production stage or the wholesale
    staa;e in packs for sale to the consumer for his personal needs :"
Article 2
         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
         ihis Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
                                                Done at Brussels ,
                                                For the Council
                                                The President