CELEX: 31991D0489
Language: en
Date: 1991-09-04 00:00:00
Title: 91/489/EEC: Commission Decision of 4 September 1991 amending Decision 90/52/EEC authorizing member states temporarily to take additional measures as regards Denmark against the dissemination of corynebacterium sepedonicum

No L 261 / 14                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    18 . 9 . 91
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    ' of 4 September 1991
                  amending Decision 90/52/EEC authorizing Member States temporarily to take
                  additional measures as regards Denmark against the dissemination of
                                                Corynebacteríum sepedonicum
                                                          (91 /489/EEC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas, moreover, Denmark set up appropriate produc­
                                                                     tion, processing and distribution structures, aimed at
                                                                     preventing reinfections of potatoes produced under the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              above conditions ;
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21                 Whereas the results of intensive official surveys, including
 December 1976 on protective measures against the intro­            testing carried out in accordance with the established
 duction into the Member States of organisms harmful to              Community method for the detection and diagnosis of
 plants or plant products ('), as last amended by Commis­            Corynebacterium sepedonicum, carried out in Denmark
 sion Directive 91 /27/EEC (2), and in particular Article 15        on potatoes harvested there since 1986, justified the
 (2) thereof,                                                       conclusion that potatoes produced in Denmark at least
                                                                    since 1986 could be deemed to be free from potato ring
                                                                    rot ;
 Having regard to Council Directive 80/665/EEC of 24
 June 1980 on the control of potato ring rot (3), and in
                                                                    Whereas Denmark informed the other Member States and
 particular Article 9 (2) thereof,
                                                                    the Commission that samples of the 1 988 ware potato
                                                                    production showed a confirmed contamination by potato
 Having regard to Commission Decision 90/52//EE of                  ring rot, including those of a consignment introduced
 17 January 1990 authorizing Member States temporarily              into another Member State ;
 to take additional measures as regards Denmark against
 the dissemination of Corynebacterium sepedonicum and
 repealing Decision 88/36/EEC (4), and in particular                Whereas taking into account that situation the Commis­
Article 3 thereof,                                                  sion, by Decision 90/52/EEC, authorized the Member
                                                                    States to take additional measures described therein ;
Whereas, where a Member State considers that there is an
 imminent danger of the introduction into its territory of          Whereas that Decision also stipulated that Member States
potato ring rot from another Member State, it may tem­              shall adjust the measures which they adopted with a view
 porarily take any additional measures necessary to protect         to protecting themselves against the introduction or
 itself from that danger ;                      '                   spread of Corynebacterium sepedonicum ;
Whereas a Member State may also take such measures                  Whereas that Decision stipulated that the authorization
where another Member State informs it of confirmed                  shall expire on 30 June 1991 ;
contamination by potato ring rot ;
                                                                    Whereas the Commission and the other Member States
Whereas it was well known that potato ring rot had                  were informed that a sample of the 1990 seed potato
occurred in Denmark for more than 25 years ;                        production of Denmark, taken from a consignment intro­
                                                                    duced into another Member State, showed a confirmed
                                                                    contamination by Corynebacterium sepedonicum ;
Whereas       Denmark       implemented     an    eradication
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programme ;
                                                                    Whereas the results of intensive official surveys, carried
                                                                    out in Denmark on potatoes harvested in 1990 also
Whereas, in particular, since 1984 the entire potato stock          showed a confirmed contamination by potato ring rot ;
material was renewed by cleaned and healthy material ;
whereas since 1986 both seed potatoes and ware potatoes
may be produced in Denmark only where they derive                   Whereas it has not yet been possible to identify the
from such cleaned and healthy stock material ;                      precise source of contamination ;
(') OJ  No  L 26, 31 . !. 1977, p. 20.                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
(2) OJ  No  L 16, 22. 1 . 1991 , p. 29.
(3) OJ  No  I 180, 14. 7. 1980, p. 30.                              accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
(4) OJ  No  L 36, 8. 2. 1990, p. 23 .                               on Plant Health,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                    3. Article 2 is deleted.
                                                                                        Article 2
                          Article 1                            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Decision 90/52/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), '90/52/EEC' is replaced by
    '91 /489/EEC' ;                                                                    Member of the Commission
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