CELEX: 31991D0490
Language: en
Date: 1991-09-04 00:00:00
Title: 91/490/EEC: Commission Decision of 4 September 1991 amending Decision 90/53/EEC authorizing member states temporarily to take additional measures against the dissemination of corynebacterium sepedonicum as regards the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 261 / 16                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                18 . 9. 91
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 4 September 1991
                  amending Decision 90/53/EEC authorizing Member States temporarily to take
                  additional measures against the dissemination of Corynebacterium sepedonicum
                                       as regards the Federal Republic of Germany
                                                          (91 /490/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         the 1988 potato production of Niedersachsen and Schles­
                                                                     wig-Holstein showed a confirmed contamination by
                                                                     potato ring rot, including those of a consignment intro­
                                                                     duced into another Member State ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas taking into account the aforementioned situa­
                                                                     tion, the Commission by Decision 90/53/EEC (4) author­
 Having regard to Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21                  ized the Member States to take additional measures
 December 1976 on protective measures against the intro­             described therein :
 duction into the Member States of organisms harmful to
 plants or plant products ('), as last amended by Commis­
 sion Directive 91 /27/EEC (2), and in particular Article 15
(2) thereof,                                                         Whereas that Decision stipulated that Member States shall
                                                                     adjust the measures which they adopted with a view to
                                                                     protecting themselves against the introduction or spread
 Having regard to Council Directive 80/665/EEC of 24                 of Corynebacterium sepedonicum ;
June 1980 on the control of potato ring rot (3), and in
particular Article 9 (2) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas that Decision stipulated that the authorization
                                                                     shall expire on 30 June 1991 ;
Whereas where a Member State considers that there is an
imminent danger of the introduction into its territory of
potato ring rot from another Member State it may tempo­
rarily take any additional measures necessary to protect            Whereas there have been no findings of ring rot on pota­
itself from that danger ;                                           toes originating in Germany either on samples drawn
                                                                    from potatoes introduced into other Member States
                                                                    pursuant to this Decision, or in surveys carried out in
                                                                     Lender other than Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein
Whereas a Member State may also take such measures                  pursuant to Directive 80/665/EEC ;
where another Member State informs it of confirmed
contamination by potato ring rot ;
                                                                    Whereas, however, has not yet been possible to identify
                                                                    the source of contamination nor to determine the extent
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany informed the                thereof in the Länder Niedersachsen und Schleswig­
other    Member    States   and   the   Commission     on  13
                                                                    Holstein ;
September 1985 that samples of potatoes originating in
Niedersachsen were suspected to be contaminated by
potato ring rot ; whereas complementary reports supplied
by Germany indicated that five samples of the 1986                  Whereas it is therefore justified for the Member States to
potato production of that Land showed a confirmed                   be authorized to take additional measures against the
contamination by potato ring rot ;                                  dissemination of Corynebacterium sepedonicum -,
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany informed the
other Member States and the Commission that samples of              Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are m
                                                                    accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
                                                                    on Plant Health,
(') OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 20.
0 OJ No L 16, 22. 1 . 1991 , p. 29.
0 OJ No L 180, 14. 7. 1980, p. 30.                                  (4) OJ No L 36, 8. 2. 1990, p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                           Article 2
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
                          Article 1
Decision 90/53/EEC is hereby amended as follows :              Done at Brussels, 4 September 1991 .
1 . in Article 1 (1 ), '30 June 1991 ' is replaced by '31                               For the Commission
    December 1991 ';
                                                                                         Ray MAC SHARRY
2. in Article 1 (2) (b), '90/53/EEC' is replaced by
    '91 /490/EEC'.                                                                  Member of the Commission