CELEX: 31977D0392
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10 May 1977 authorizing the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/401/EEC

No L 147/36                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               15 . 6. 77
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                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 10 May 1977
              authorizing the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                      not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/401 /EEC
                                                         (77/392/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Kingdom with this seed not complying with require­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      ments of the Directive to permit the marketing of
                                                                   such seed provided that it is intended exclusively for
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             the United Kingdom ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 / EEC of 14             are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('),               Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
 as last amended by Council Directive 75/444/ EEC of               Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
 26 June 1975 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,
 Having regard to the request made by the United
 Kingdom,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas in the United Kingdom the production of
 red clover seed and of white clover seed of fine-leaved
varieties complying with requirements of the said
 Directive has been insufficient in 1976 and is not
                                                                                            Article 1
 adequate to supply the needs of that country ;
Whereas it has not been possible to cover these needs               1 . The United Kingdom is authorized to permit for
 sufficiently by 'certified seed' from other Member                a period expiring on 30 September 1977 the
 States or even from third countries, meeting all the              marketing on its territory of red clover seed (Trifolium
 requirements laid down in the said Directive ;                    pratense L.) up to a maximum of 60 tonnes of the cate­
                                                                   gory 'certified seed of the first generation' and of 40
Whereas the United Kingdom should therefore be                     tonnes of the category 'commercial seed' which do
authorized to permit, for a period expiring on 30                  not satisfy the requirements with regard to maximum
September 1977, the marketing of seed of the above­                content of hard seed laid down in Annex II to Direc­
 mentioned species of a category subject to less strin­            tive 66/401 /EEC, provided that the following require­
                                                                   ments are satisfied :
gent requirements ;
Whereas it appears also desirable to authorize other               (a) the maximum content of hard seed shall not
Member States which are able to supply the United                       exceed 40 % of pure seed ;
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2298 /66.                          (b) the official label shall bear the following endorse­
(2) OJ No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975, p. 6 .                                  ments :
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      — 'maximum content of hard seed 40 % ,                  tonnes of red clover seed and of 10 tonnes of white
      — 'intended exclusively for the United Kingdom '.       clover seed provided that such seed is intended exclu­
                                                              sively for the United Kingdom .
2. The United Kingdom is authorized to permit for
a period expiring on 30 September 1977 the                    The official label shall state : 'intended exclusively for
marketing on its territory of a maximum of 10 tonnes          the United Kingdom'.
of white clover seed (Trifolium repens L.) of fine­
leaved varieties of the category 'certified seed of the                               Article 3
first generation' which do not satisfy the requirements       The Member States shall notify the Commission
with regard to minimum germination capacity laid              before 1 December 1977 of the quantities of seed
down in Annex II to Directive 66/401 /EEC provided            marketed in their territories pursuant to this Decision.
that the following requirements are satisfied :               The Commission       shall  inform    the other Member
(a) the germination capacity is at least 70 % of pure         States thereof.
      seed ;
                                                                                      Article 4
(b) the official label shall bear the following endorse­
      ments :                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
      — 'minimum germination capacity . . . % ',
      — 'intended exclusively for the United Kingdom'.        Done at Brussels, 10 May 1977.
                         Article 2                                                       For the Commission
The other Member States are authorized to permit,                                         Finn GUNDELACH
subject to the conditions laid down in Article 1 , the
marketing in their territories of a maximum of 100                                           Vice-President