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Date: 1980-05-12
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 315/68 fixing the quality standards for flowering bulbs, corms and tubers (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                   Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
      amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315 / 68 fixing the quality standards
                     for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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SU3J5CT : Proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation ( ESC )
          . No 315/68 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 practice
has shown the necessity that the standard should be completed by provisions
concerning the minimum size and sizing for other varieties of "bhe products
referred to above .
                This Regulation has as its objective the insertions of th . •?
varieties to the list appearing in Chapter 3        " Sizing" of the annexe to  -
Regulation ( EEC) No 315/68 .                     .
                The measure concerned has no financial effect on the Community
Budget .
 ---pagebreak---                                  proposal for
               REGULATION (EEC )                 OP THE COUNCIL
 amending Regulation (EEC ) N° 315/68 fixing the 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 ) N°
                                      234/68^^ of 27 February 1968 on the establish­
                                      ment of a common organisation 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 ;
                                      Helving regard to the proposal from the Commis­
                                      sion :
                                        2)
Whereas regulation (EEC ) N° 315/ 68       , as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) N°
 338 /77^\lays down in the Annex thereto provisions concerning size gradings;
whereas those provisions do not cover products Allium,          ■ Ixia, Eranthis ,
Pritillaria and Sparaxis ; whereas those products should be included in that
Annex in order to achieve the purposes of the quality standards more satisfacto­
rily ;
     , -  .              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                •  ,
Article 1
         The products listed in the Annex to this Regulation together with the
provisions relating to each of then^ shall be inserted in the Table in Section
III of the Annex . to Regulation (EEC ) N° 315/68 , in' their respective alphabetical
positions .                       /
Cl ) OJ N° L 55 , 2.3.1968 , p. 1 ,
( 2 ) OJ N° L 71 , 21.3.1968 , d. 1
( 3 ) OJ N° L 48 , 19.2.1977 , p.2 .
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 Article 2
            *
               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1980 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
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applicable in all Member States .                                      '   .
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Done at Brussels ,                                For the Council
                   ■ -                           The President
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Botanical description   Method of       Minimum    Size                  i
of products             grading          size      gradings              !
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 Allium neapolitanum ,-     A            3.0 cm    3-4 ; 4-5 ;
                                                   5 and over
 lxia                       A'           4,0 cm .  4-5 ; 5-7 ;
                                                  7 and over
 Eranthis                   A            3,5 οπι            . 3,5-4 ;
  cilicica                                        4-6 ; 6 and over
                                  i
Eranthis hiemalis          A             4,0 cm          . . 4-5 i
                                                  5-7 ; 7 and over'-
                                    . .       %
 Fritillaria               A' ■ .        6,0 cm           6-8 ;
  moleagris ,                                     8 and over
  its cultivars
  and hybrids .
 Sparaxis tricolor ,       A            3,5 cm    3 , 5-4 ; 4–6 ;
  its cultivars and                               6 and over
 hybrids-   .   ;