CELEX: 31977D0219
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 March 1977 revoking Commission Decision 74/365/EEC provisionally authorizing the French Republic to prohibit the marketing in France of dwarf french bean seed of the variety 'Midas'

No L 68 / 30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            15 . 3 . 77
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 3 March 1977
               revoking Commission Decision 74/365 / EEC provisionally authorizing the
               French Republic to prohibit the marketing in France of dwarf french bean seed
                                                       of the variety ' Midas'
                                                  (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (77/21 9/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas the conditions giving rise to the authoriza­
COMMUNITIES,                                                          tion to the French Republic therefore no longer
                                                                      apply ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to Council Directive 70/458 / EEC of 29                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
September 1970 on the marketing of vegetable                          Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agri­
seed ('), as last amended by Directive 76/307/ EEC (2 ),              culture, Horticulture and Forestry,
and in particular Article 16 (2) thereof,
Whereas the variety of dwarf french bean 'Midas' is                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
published in the common catalogue of varieties of
vegetable species (3) ; whereas, therefore, in accordance
with Article 16 ( 1 ) of the said Directive, the seed of                                     Article 1
this variety is not in principle subject within the
Community to any marketing restrictions relating to                   Commission Decision 74/365/EEC of 13 June 1974
variety ;                                                             is hereby revoked .
Whereas however the Commission , by Decision
74/365/ EEC of 13 June 1974 (4), authorized the                                              Article 2
French Republic, pending a further Decision , to
prohibit the marketing in its territory of dwarf french               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
been seed of the variety 'Midas' because the variety
had been judged not sufficiently uniform there ;
Whereas the said Decision provided for a crop exami­                  Done at Brussels, 3 March 1977 .
nation under Community responsibility in order to
arrive at a uniform conclusion regarding the homoge­
neity of the variety ;                                                                         For the Commission
Whereas this crop examination has been carried out ;                                            Finn GUNDELACH
whereas, on the basis of the material tested, the variety
may be considered as sufficiently uniform ;                                                        Vice-President
(1)  OJ No  L  225, 25 . 10 . 1970, p. 7 .
(2 ) OJ No  L  72, 18 . 3 . 1976, p. 16 .
(3 ) OJ No  C  161 , 31 . 12. 1974, p . 162 .
(4)  OJ No  L  196, 16 . 7 . 1974, p. 23 .