CELEX: 31976D0220
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-30 00:00:00
Title: 76/220/EEC: Commission Decision of 30 December 1975 extending for the United Kingdom in respect of a certain number of varieties the period after which seeds and propagating material of varieties of agricultural plant species are no longer subject to any marketing restrictions relating to variety

No L 46/32                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 21 . 2 . 76
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 30 December 1975
              extending for the United Kingdom in respect of a certain number of varieties the period
              after which seeds and propagating material of varieties of agricultural plant species are
                            no longer subject to any marketing restrictions relating to variety
                                                          (76/220/EEC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
COMMUNITIES ,                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
                                                                    Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for
Having regard       to the Treaty establishing the                  Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 70/457/EEC of                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
29 September 1970 on the common catalogue of
varieties of agricultural plant species (*), as last
amended by Council Directive 73 /438 /EEC of                                                  Article 1
11 December 1973 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 15 (7)            The period provided for in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Directive
thereof,                                                            70/457/EEC, after whose expiry seeds and
Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of                       propagating material of varieties of agricultural plant
Articles 15 ( 1 ) and 16 of the abovementioned                      species are no longer subject to any marketing
Directive, seeds and propagating material of varieties              restrictions relating to variety within the Community ,
of agricultural plant species which have been                       shall be extended for the United Kingdom beyond
officially accepted before 1 January 1974 in at least               31 December 1975 until 30 June 1976 in respect of the
one of the Member States and which also fulfil the                  following varieties :
conditions laid down in the abovementioned
Directive, are, with effect from 31 December 1975, no                  I. FODDER PLANT
longer subject to any marketing restrictions relating
to variety within the Community ;                                          Lolium      multiflorum       Lam .   (Ssp .     non
                                                                           alternativum)
Whereas, however, Article 15 (2) of the                                    Broxy
abovementioned Directive provides that a Member
State may be authorized upon application to prohibit                       Prego Dæhnfeldt
the marketing of seeds and propagating material of
certain varieties ;                                                   II . CEREALS
Whereas the United Kingdom has requested by letter                         1 . Hordeum distichum L.
of 1 December 1975 such authorization for a certain                            Pauline
number of varieties ;
Whereas this request is now being carefully examined                       2 . Hordeum polystichum L.
by the Commission ; whereas it is not possible to                              Dura
complete examination of all the varieties which are
the subject of the request before expiry of the period
                                                                                               Article 2
provided for in Article 15 ( 1 ) of the abovementioned
Directive :                                                         This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas it consequently seems desirable to extend,
for the United Kingdom, the period in question for                  Done at Brussels, 30 December 1975 .
 an appropriate time to permit a full examination of
the request;                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                                        G. M. THOMSON
(!) OJ No L 225 , 12 . 10. 1970, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 356, 27. 12 . 1973 , p . 79 .                                                        Member of the Commission