CELEX: 31977D0164
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 7 February 1977 amending Decision 76/722/EEC authorizing the United Kingdom to permit temporarily the marketing of red clover seed subject to less stringent requirements

23 . 2 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 51 / 17
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 7 February 1977
               amending Decision 76/722/EEC authorizing the United Kingdom to permit
               temporarily the marketing of red clover seed subject to less stringent require­
                                                           ments
                          (Only the Dutch , English , French and German texts are authentic)
                                                        (77/ 164/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas this period should therefore be extended ;
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Economic Community,                                               Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
Having regard to Council Directive 66/401 /EEC of 14              Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (1),
as last amended by Directive 75/444/EEC (2), and in
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
particular Article 17 thereof,
Having regard to the request made by the United                                          Article 1
Kingdom ,
Whereas the production of seed of the category 'certi­            In   Article 1  of   Decision    76/722/ EEC, for  ' 30
fied seed' of red clover (Trifolium patense L.) was               September 1976' read '31 July 1977'.
insufficient in 1976 and therefore will not be adequate
to supply United Kingdom requirements ;                                                  Article 2
Whereas Commission Decision 76/722/ EEC of 17
                                                                  This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom,
August 1 976 (3) has already authorized the United                the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Repu­
Kingdom to market 450 tonnes of red clover seed of
                                                                  blic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
the category 'commercial seed' or of the category 'certi­
fied seed' of the first generation of varieities not
included in the common catalogue of varities of agri­
cultural plant species or in its national catalogues of           Done at Brussels, 7 February 1977.
varieties, for a period which expired on 30 September
 1976 ;                                                                                    For the Commission
Whereas this period has not been sufficient to permit                                       Finn GUNDELACH
the marketing of seed covered by this Decision down
to the ultimate user ;                                                                         Vice-President
(>) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2298/66.
(2) OJ No L 196, 26. 7 . 1975, p. 6 .
P) OJ No L 245, 7. 9 . 1976, p. 16 .