CELEX: 51983PC0790
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1430/82 PROVIDING FOR RESTRICTIONS ON THE IMPORTATION OF HEMP AND HEMP SEEDS AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1308/70 IN RESPECT OF HEMP

N o C 19/8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               26. 1. 84
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1430/82 providing
              for restrictions on the importation of hemp and hemp seeds and amending Regulation
                                          (EEC) No 1308/70 in respect of hemp
                                                    COM(83) 790 final
                            (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 17 January 1984)
                                                       (84/C 19/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the maximum germination rate requirement
COMMUNITIES,                                                     should therefore be withdrawn and replaced by a
                                                                 stipulation that imports of the product in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     will be permitted only subject to verification that it
European Economic Community, and in particular                   will not be used for sowing,
Articles 43 and 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the opinion of the European                                              Article 1
Parliament,
                                                                 Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1430/82 is
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                 hereby amended as follows:
Social Committee,
                                                                     '3.    The importation of unbroken hemp seed
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC)                    falling within subheading 12.01 B of the Common
No 1430/82 ('), as last amended by Regulation                        Customs Tariff shall be authorized only if it is
(EEC) No 2910/83 (2), specified, in order to prevent                 verified that it will not be used for sowing. In
unbroken hemp seed falling within subheading                         order to facilitate such verification, authorization
12.01 B of the Common Customs Tariff being sown                      to import shall be granted only to natural or legal
and thus posing a threat to human health, that impor-                persons who satisfy certain requirements to be
tation of such seed was to be authorized only if the                 determined and only on condition that they
germination rate did not exceed a maximum                            provide adequate guarantees.'
percentage to be determined or if the seed was to be
used in scientific or technical experiments;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas the fixing of a maximum germination rate
raises more difficult technical problems than orig-              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
inally anticipated and verification of compliance with           day following its publication in the Official Journal of
such a requirement would be an undue hindrance to                the European Communities.
importation;
                                                                 It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1984.
O OJ No L 162, 12. 6. 1982, p. 27.                               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
O OJ No L 287, 20. 10. 1983, p. 1.                               directly applicable in all Member States.