CELEX: 51989PC0070
Language: en
Date: 1989-02-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 66/403/EEC ON THE MARKETING OF SEED POTATOES

No C 79/6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30. 3. 89
             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed
                                                           potatoes
                                                      COM(89)    70 final
                                      (Submitted by the Commission on 2 March 1989)
                                                        (89/C 79/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas, however, since work to establish Community
                                                                  equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             been completed, Article 15 (2a) of that Directive
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                  permitted Member States to extend to 31 March 1988
thereof,                                                          the period of validity of equivalence which they had
                                                                  already determined in respect of certain countries not
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                covered by the Community equivalences;
Having regard      to   the   opinion   of   the   European       Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the date of
Parliament,                                                       31 March 1988 should therefore be replaced by a later
                                                                  date,
Whereas Council Directive 66/403/EEC (*), as last
amended by Directive 88/359/EEC (2), provides that                HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Member States may be authorized, in respect of the
marketing of seed potatoes in all or part of their terri-                                   Article 1
tories, to take more stringent measures than those
provided for in Annex I to the Directive against                  Directive 66/403/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
particular virus diseases which do not exist in those
                                                                  1. In Article 13 (2) the first sentence is replaced by the
regions or which appear particularly harmful to crops in
                                                                     following:
those regions (Article 13 (2));
                                                                     'The Commission, acting in accordance with the
Whereas it has appeared that the scope of this provision             procedure laid down in Article 19, shall, in respect of
should be extended to harmful organisms other than                   the marketing of seed potatoes in all or part of the
virus diseases;                                                      territory of one or more Member States, authorize
                                                                      more stringent measures than those provided for in
Whereas Directive 66/403/EEC also provides that, in                  Annexes I and II to be taken against harmful
principle, with effect from certain dates, Member States             organisms which do not exist in those regions or
may no longer determine for themselves the equivalence               which appear particularly harmful to crops in those
of seed potatoes harvested in third countries with seed              regions.'.
potatoes harvested within the Community and complying
with the Directive (Article 15 (2));                              2. In Article 15 (2a) '31 March 1988' is replaced by '31
                                                                      March 1989'.
                                                                                            Article 2
(') OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2320/66.
O OJ No L 174, 6. 7. 1988, p. 51.                                 This Directive is addressed to the Member States.