CELEX: 51977PC0445
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-21
Title: Amendment of the Commission proposal for a Council Directive amending Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/SEC, 66/403/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 69/208/ESC, 70/458/EEC and 70/457/SEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, material for the vegetative propagation of the vine, seed of oil and fibre plants, vegetable seed and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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COM (77) 445
Vol. 1977/0142
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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             - COM(77)445 final.
                                               Brussels , 21 September 1977
 Amendment of the Commission proposal for a Council Directive amending
Directives 66/400/EEC , 66/401 /EEC , 66/402/SEC , 66/403/EEC , 68/193/EEC,
69/208/ESC , 70/458/EEC and 70/457/SEC on the marketing of "beet seed,
fodder plant seed , cereal seed , seed potatoes , material for the vegetative
propagation of the vine , seed of oil and fibre plants , vetetable seed and
on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species
                ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission
                 pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                  149 of the EEC Treaty) *                .
COI'(77 ) 445 final .
 ---pagebreak--- Amendment of the Commission proposal for a Council Directive amending
Directives 66/ 400/ EEC , 66/ 401 / EEC , 66/ 402/ EEC , 66/ 403 / EEC , 68/ 193/ EEC ,
69 / 208/ EEC , 70/ 458/ EEC and 70/ 457/ EEC on the marketing of beet seed ,
fodder plant seed , cereal seed , seed potatoes , material for the vegetative
propagation of the vine , seed of oil and fibre plants , vegetable seed
and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species
2 . Backqround :
     In Accordance with Article 15 paragraph 2 sentence 2 of the Directive
     66/ 403 / EEC of 14 June 1966 ( 1 ), at last amended by Directive 76/ 307/ EEC
     of 15 March 1976 ( 2 ) Italy has each year traditionally imported Canadian
     seed potatoes .     This possibility expired on 31 December 1976 according
    to Article 15 paragraph 2a of the said Directive .             However , on 24 March
     1977 the Commission submitted for the Council in proposal Com ( 77 ) 98
     final an equivalence of Canadian seed potatoes at Community level .                With
    adoption , in time of this proposal Italy would have had the possibility
    to continue its imports of Canadian seed potatoes during the season 1977
    which starts in September .         However , it appears that the Council is not
    yet able to complete the examination of this proposal .              Therefore , in
    order to avoid disturbing existing trade patterns in the mean-time , it is
    necessary to extend the validity of the national italian measures in a sui­
    table way .
     Therefore Article 15 paragraph 2a of the said Directive has to be amended .
    As other provisions of this Directive have to be amended in accordance
     with the Commission proposal Com ( 77 ) 162 final ( 3 ) submitted to the
    Council on 13 May 1977 it seems in order to complete this latter proposal .
     ( 1 ) OJ N° 125 , 11 / 7/ 1966 , p. 2320/ 66
     ( 2 ) OJ N° L 72 , 18/ 3 / 1976 , p. 16
     ( 3 ) OJ N° C 130 , 3 / 6/ 1977 - p. 2
 ---pagebreak---   3 . Amendment of the Directive proposal
3.1   After the 6th 'whereas * the following 'whereas * shall "be added :
      "Whereas , since the work intended, to enable such equivalence of production
      and controls in third countries for seed potatoes to "be determined at
      Community level has not yet "been completed ,, the Member States should "be
      granted the possibility of extending the validity of decisions on
      equivalence already taken "by them , in order to prevent traditional trade
      patterns being disturbed ."
3.2   In Article 4 » the following shall "be added:
      "7a. In Article 15 (2 a). "31 December 1976" shall read "30 June 1978"»