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Date: 1979-11-16
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed potatoes (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                                             COM(79)652 final
                                             Brussels - 16 November 1979
                           Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
   amending Directive 66 / 403 / EEC on the marketing of seed potatoes
            ( presented by the Commission to the Council )
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                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Imports of seed potatoes to the Community from non-member countries are
subject to
  -  the Community plant health arrangements,
  - the equivalence of the system for classifying seed potatoes , in
     accordance with Council Directive 66/ 403/ EEC on the marketing of seed
     potatoes .
Under present circumstances there are plant health objections to seed
potatoes from Canada .    ~
The Community plant health arrangements forbid such seed potatoes from
being imported into the Community except by way of exception, under strict
conditions and for a limited period .
However, in order to allow use to be made of the limited period referred to
above, it is necessary to adapt the period of validity of the equivalence
records made in this respect . Seed potatoes introduced under these rules
                                       %
may accordingly be marketed only . in the Member States which do make use of
it .
 ---pagebreak---                                Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
     amending Directive 66/ 403/ EEC ori the marketing of seed potatoes
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 43 thereof ,          .
Having -regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament , .
Whereas , pursuant to Article 15 of Council Directive 66/ 403 / EEC of
                                                  (1)
14 June 1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes        , as last amended by
                       (2)
Directive 78/ 816/ EEC     , in principle after 1 July 1975 Member States may
no longer themselves establish the equivalance of inspections and checks
carried out in third countries ;
Whereas , however , Member States were authorized to extend the validity
of decisions on equivalance already taken by them, since the work intended
to enable such equivalance to be established at Community level had not
yet been completed ; whereas such an extension has been operated in
practice only as regards Canada ;
Whereas the use of this power of extension is subject to the Community
rules on plant health ;
                                            I
Whereas by virtue of these rules seed potatoes originating from Canada
can only, at this stage , be introduced into the Community by way of
derogation , subject to stringent conditions and for a limited period .
 OJ No 125 , 11.7.1966, p. 2320/ 66
20J No L 281 , 6.10.1978,- 6.10.1978, p . 18
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas to establish equivalence at Community level would at this stage be
pointless ;
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Whereas , however , Drovision should be made to enable the abovementioned
limited period tm be used, whereas.it is consequently necessary to extend
   the     validity of decisions on equivalence already taken by Member States .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :                     . ,
                                    Article 1
Without prejudice to the provisions of Council Directive 77 / 93 / EEC of
21 December 1976 on protective measures against the introduction into the Membe
States of harmful organisms of plant or plant products ( 3 ) the date
 • 30 June 1979 * in Article 15(2)a of Directive 66/ 403/ EEC is
replaced by '31 March 1980' .
                                     Article 2 ,
Member States shall bring into force the laws , regulations and administrative
provisions necessary to comply with this Directive with effect from 1 July
1979      and shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof ...
                                     Article 3
This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
 Done at Brussels ,
  ( 3 ) 0J No 26 , 31.1.1977, p. 20