CELEX: 51981PC0470
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Date: 1981-09-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 315/68 fixing quality standards for flowering bulbs, corms and tubers (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                               COM(81)470 final
                                               Brussels , 14 September 1981
                               Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315 / 68 fixing quality standards for flowering
                           bulbs / corms and tubers
          ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
> 31 ) 470 final
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     il ii . ce .          Proposal for a Council Regulation 'amending Regulation ( EEC ) No
  :;i             ilxing quality standards for flowering bulbs , corms and tubers .
 Oii 2 February 1281 the Commission put forward a proposed Council Regulation
          ( J at amending Regulation ( EEC ) Mo 234 / 68 on the establishment of a common
 or gar. i sation of the market in live trees and other plants , bulbs , roots and
  t!io 'like , cut flowers and ornamental foliage .
The object of this proposal was to allow intervention at trade level in flower
bolbs complying with tiie quality standards but of a minimum size lower than
 Lhat set one . in the standards .
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il . A.'ev , r , a number of delegations within the Council could not agree to this .
p -. - o;x.' -,a L ;  during the discussions , 'alternatives to the proposed Regulation
w£i\. puL forward which should better achieve the objectives set out in *the
 Sol io'. / inj the discussions within the Council , the Commission has drawn up tins
 .v.-oposal , providing for. quality standards for bulbs intended for reproduction ,
v. :_.            view firstly to facilitating trade in these products and secondly to
; • ! Iii.' tiie Member States , in accordance with the decisions of the Court of
. ui;;ti<'c , to carry out intervention in these products so that the market may be
 better stabilised .             . '
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                                             Proposal for
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
         amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 315 / 68 fixing quality standards for flowering
         bulbs , corms and tubers ,
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
  Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 234 / 68 of 27 February 1968 on the
  establishment of a common organisation of the market in live trees and other
   plants , bulbs , roots and the like , cut flowers and ornamental foliage(l ), and
   in particular Article 3 thereof ,
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
  Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 315 / 68 \
  amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 2530 / 80(3 ), fixed quality standards for
   flowering bulbs , conns « nd tubers intended - for? delivery to consumers or for
   export to non-member countries ;
  Whereas , there is substantial trade- within the Community products intended
s for propagation ; whereas quality standards should therefore be laid down for
  those products ;
   Whereas surveys have shown that stabilisation of the market in flowering bulbs •
   could be more cffecively achieved at lower cost by reducing the available
   quantities of small bulbs intended for . propagation ; , whereas , in accordance
   with the judgments of the Court of Justice , establishment of quality
   'standards will make it possible to implement a national intervention system
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   for this purpose ,
    ( 1 ) OJ No L 55 , 2.3.1968 , p. 1
    ( 2 ) OJ No T , 71 , 21.3.1968 , p. 1
    ( 3 ) OJ No 1 259 , 2.10.1980 , p., 6
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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION      :
                                          Article 1
The following subparagraph is hereby added to Article 2(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC )
N° 315 / 68 :
" Bulbs and corms intended for purposes other than those referred to in the first sub­
 paragraph may not be sold within the Community unless :
a ) they comply with the provisions set out in the first subparagraph of title II
    of the Annex ;
b ) each unit pack contains a minimum number of bulbs determined in accordance with the
    procedure laid down in Article 14 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 234 / 68 ;
c ) the packages bear the following particulars , legibly and indelibly marked :
    Ident i f i cat i on
    Vendor :     name and address or code mark ;
    Nature of produce
    Bulbs and corms for propagation ,"
                                        Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels ,