CELEX: 51983PC0792(01)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 66/403/EEC ON THE MARKETING OF SEED POTATOES

26. 1.84                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           N o C 19/5
                                                            II
                                                    (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of
                                                      seed potatoes
                                                   COM(83) 792 final
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 16 January 1984)
                                                      (84/C 19/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     respect of certain countries not covered by the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Community equivalences; whereas in practice this
                                                                extension has only been applied in respect of Canada;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                  Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the
Articles 43 and 100 thereof,                                    final date for the extension of the period of validity
                                                                of national findings of equivalence should be deferred
                                                                to 31 January 1984;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                Whereas these measures do not affect Member States'
Having regard to the opinion of the             European        obligations under the common rules on plant health
Parliament,                                                     laid down by Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21
                                                                December 1976 on protective measures against the
Whereas Council Directive 66/403/EEC (*), as last               introduction into the Member States of organisms
amended by Directive 81/561/EEC (2), provides that              harmful to plants or plant products (3), as last
in principle from 1 July 1975 onwards Member States             amended by Directive 81/7/EEC (4),
may no longer determine for themselves the
equivalence of seed potatoes harvested in third                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
countries with basic seed potatoes or certified seed
potatoes harvested within the Community and                                                Article 1
complying with the provisions of that Directive;
                                                                In Article 15 (2a) of Directive 66/403/EEC, '31
                                                                December 1982' is hereby replaced by '31 January
Whereas, however, since work to                  establish
                                                                1984'.
Community equivalence for all the third countries
concerned had not yet been completed, Article
15 (2a) of that Directive permits Member States to                                         Article 2
extend to 31 December 1982 the period of validity of            This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
equivalences which they had already determined in
(') OJ No 125, 11.7. 1966, p. 2320/66.                          (J) OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.
O OJ No L 203, 23. 7. 1981, p. 52.                              (4) O J N o L 14, 16. 1. 1981, p. 23.