CELEX: 51987PC0062
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-19
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 66/403/EEC ON THE MARKETING OF SEED POTATOES

No C 121/6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7. 5. 87
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                  COMMISSION
             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed
                                                             potatoes
                                                       COM(87) 62 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 24 February 1987)
                                                         (87/C 121/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            accordance with Member States' obligations under the
                                                                    common rules on plant health laid down by Council
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                    protective measures against the introduction into the
thereof,                                                            Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant
                                                                    products ( J ), as last amended by Commission Directive
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  86/547/EEC( 4 );
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                   Whereas        this   measure     does  not  affect     the
liament,                                                            aforementioned obligations and, in respect of seed
                                                                    potatoes produced in Canada, the extension can
Whereas Council Directive 66/403/EEC of 14 June                     therefore be used only by Greece and Italy, within the
 1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes (*), as last                limits set up by Commission Decision 87/00/EEC (5),
amended by Directive 86/215/EEC (2), provides that in               and by Spain and Portugal which, under the terms of
principle from 1 July 1975 onwards in the case of                   Council Directive 87/00/EEC (6) amending, consequent
Member States other than Greece, Spain and Portugal,                on the accession of Spain and Portugal, Directive 7 7 / 9 3 /
from 1 January 1981 onwards in the case of Greece, and              EEC, will not be implementing the provisions of
from 1 January 1986 onwards in the case of Spain and                Directive 77/93/EEC before 1 March 1987,
Portugal, Member States may no longer determine for
themselves the equivalence of seed potatoes harvested in            HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
third countries with seed potatoes harvested within the
Community and complying with that Directive;                                                   Article 1
Whereas, however, since work to establish Community
                                                                    In Article 15 (2) (a) of Directive 66/403/EEC:
equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not
been completed, Article 15 (2) (a) of that Directive                —• in the first sentence '31 March 1986' is replaced by
permitted Member States to extend to 31 March 1986 in                   '31 March 1987',
the case of Member States other than Spain and
Portugal, and to 30 June 1986 in the case of Spain and              — in the second sentence '31 March 1986' is replaced
Portugal, the period of validity of equivalences which                  by '31 March 1987' and '30 June 1986' is replaced by
they had already determined in respect of certain                       '28 February 1987'.
countries not covered by the Community equivalences;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas the said work is still incomplete and the said
final dates should be deferred to dates determined in               This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
(') OJ No 125, 11.7. 1966, p. 2320/66.                              O OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.
O OJ No L 152, 6. 6. 1986, p. 46.                                   (4) OJ No L 323, 18. 11. 1986, p. 21.