CELEX: 31979D0358
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-20 00:00:00
Title: 79/358/EEC: Commission Decision of 20 March 1979 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC

No L 84/26                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  4 . 4 . 79
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 20 March 1979
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium to permit temporarily the marketing of
               seed not complying with the requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC
                                                      (79/358/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                          Article 1
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14             1 . The Kingdom of Belgium is authorized to
June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed ( x ), as last        permit, for a period which expires on 15 April 1979,
amended by Directive 78/ 1020/EEC (2), and in parti­            the marketing in its territory of a maximum of 1 000
cular Article 17 thereof,                                       tonnes of spring wheat seed belonging to the catego­
                                                                ries 'certified seed of the first generation' and 'certified
Having regard to the request made by the Kingdom                seed of the second generation' which do not satisfy
of Belgium,                                                     the requirements with regard to germination capacity
                                                                laid down in Annex II to Directive 60/402/EEC,
                                                                provided that the following requirements are satisfied :
Whereas unfavourable weather conditions during the
winter of 1978/79 have destroyed the majority of                (a) the germination capacity is at least 75 % of the
sowing in winter wheat ; whereas, therefore, Belgium                pure seeds ;
will be forced to substitute part of its winter wheat
harvest with spring wheat ; whereas, therefore, the
                                                                (b) the official label shall state :
demand for spring wheat seed will increase substan­
tially ; whereas, therefore, the production in Belgium              — 'Germination capacity . . . % ',
of certified spring wheat seed fulfilling the require­
ments of Directive 66/402/ EEC is insufficient to meet              — 'Intended exclusively for Belgium'.
the increased demand ;
                                                                2. The Kingdom of Belgium is authorized to
Whereas it has not been possible to cover this                  permit, for a period which expires on 15 April 1979,
demand entirely by seed of spring wheat coming from             the marketing in its territory of 2 500 tonnes of spring
other Member States ;                                           wheat seed which has not been officially certified, of
                                                                the varieties included in the common catalogue of
Whereas it seems expedient to authorize Belgium to              varieties of agricultural plant species or in a national
permit, for a period which expires on 15 April 1979,            catalogue of varieties in the Community under the
the marketing of 1 000 tonnes of certified seed of              following conditions :
spring wheat which have a germination of at least
75 % of the seeds ;                                             (a) the seed shall comply with the requirements laid
                                                                    down for certified seed in Annex II to Directive
Whereas, however, there will still remain an unful­
                                                                     66/402/ EEC on the marketing of cereal seed, with
                                                                     the exception of the provisions of items 1 and 3
filled demand for 2 500 tonnes of spring wheat seed ;               concerning varietal identity and purity and of the
                                                                     requirements      concerning      the     germination
Whereas it seems expedient therefore to authorize                   capacity, on the condition that the germination
Belgium to permit, for a period which expires on 15                  capacity is at least 75 % of the pure seeds ;
April 1979, the marketing of seed of some varieties of
spring wheat satisfying less stringent requirements ;           (b) the packages of this seed shall be labelled with an
                                                                     official brown label, bearing at least the following
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                   specifications :
are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for                      — a statement that this seed has not been subject
                                                                         to official certification,
Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
                                                                     — the words 'Germination capacity . . . % ',
(') OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1976, p. 2309/66 .
(2) OJ No L 350, 14. 12. 1978 , p. 27 .                              — the inspection service,
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     — the species,                                                                   Article 3
     — reference number permitting identification of
         the origin of the seed,                               Member States shall notify the Commission before 15
     — declared net or gross weight,                           June 1979 of the quantities of seed marketed in their
                                                               territory pursuant to this Decision . The Commission
     — the words 'Intended exclusively for Belgium' ;          shall inform the other Member States thereof.
(c) the packages of this seed shall be labelled with a
     special supplier's label indicating the variety of the
     seed ;                                                                           Article 4
(d) official post-control tests on random check may be         This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
     carried out to check whether the indication of
     variety was correct.
                          Article 2
                                                                Done at Brussels, 20 March 1979 .
The other Member States are hereby authorized to
permit, subject to the conditions laid down in Article
                                                                                         For the Commission
1 , the marketing in their territory of a maximum of
3 500 tonnes of seed, provided that it is intended                                        Finn GUNDELACH
exclusively for Belgium . The official label shall state :
'Intended exclusively for Belgium'.                                                          Vice-President