CELEX: 31978D0158
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 January 1978 authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC

18 . 2. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 47/49
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 13 January 1978
              authorizing the Italian Republic to permit temporarily the marketing of seed
                       not complying with requirements of Council Directive 66/402/EEC
                                               (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                         (78 / 158/ EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      in its territory of a maximum of 4 000 tonnes of rice
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        seed (Oryza sativa L.) of the categories 'certified seed
                                                                     of the first generation' and 'certified seed of the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               second generation ' subject to less stringent require­
 Economic Community,                                                 ments with regard to minimum germination capacity
 Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14                 laid down in Annex II to Directive 66/402/EEC,
 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed ('), as last              under the following conditions :
 amended by Directive 75/444/EEC (2), and in parti­
 cular Article 17 thereof,                                           (a) the germination capacity is at least 75 % of pure
                                                                         seed ;
 Having regard to the request made by the Italian                    (b) the official label shall be marked as follows :
 Republic,
                                                                         — 'minimum germination capacity 75 % ',
 Whereas in the Italian Republic the production of                       — 'intended exclusively for Italy'.
 rice seed complying with the requirements of the said
 Directive has been insufficient in 1977 and therefore
 will not be adequate to meet that country's needs ;                                         Article 2
 Whereas it is not possible sufficiently to cover this
 demand with seed from other Member States or from                   The Italian Republic shall notify the Commission
 third countries, meeting all the requirements laid                  before 1 November 1978 of the quantities of seed
 down in the said Directive ;                                        marketed in its territory pursuant to this Decision .
                                                                     The Commission shall inform          the other Member
 Whereas the Italian Republic should therefore be auth­              States thereof.
 orized to permit, for a period expiring on 30 June
 1978, the marketing of seed of the abovementioned
 species of a category subject to less stringent require­                                    Article 3
 ments ;
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                  This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
 Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agri­
 culture, Horticulture and Forestry,
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 13 January 1978 .
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                               For the Commission
                          Article 1
                                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
 The Italian Republic is hereby authorized to permit,
 for a period expiring on 30 June 1978 , the marketing                                              Vice-President
(■) OJ No 125, 11 . 7 . 1966, p. 2309/66 .
(2) OJ No L 196, 26 . 7 . 1975, p. 6 .