78/415/EEC: Commission Decision of 14 April 1978 authorizing the Member States to restrict the marketing of forest reproductive material produced in Austria

COMMISSION DECISION  of 14 April 1978  authorizing the Member States to restrict the marketing of forest reproductive material produced in Austria  (78/415/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 66/404/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of forest reproductive material (1), as last amended by Directive 75/445/EEC (2),
Having regard to the Council Decision 78/262/EEC of 6 March 1978 on the equivalence of forest reproductive material produced in Austria (3), and in particular Article 2, second indent thereof,
Having regard to the requests made by the Member States,
Whereas, under Article 1 of the said Decision, certain forest reproductive material produced in Austria is, under certain conditions, equivalent to the reproductive material produced in the Community and complying with the provisions of Directive 66/404/EEC;
Whereas, however Article 2, second indent thereof provides, that a Member State shall be authorized on application to prohibit the marketing in all or part of its territory of reproductive material derived from specific basic material or a specific region of provenance, listed in the said Decision, where it has information giving grounds for the fear that the use of the said reproductive material would, on account of its genetic characters, have an adverse effect on its forestry;
Whereas the Member States have presented such information, which has not been contradicted;
Whereas therefore the application of the Member States should be granted in full;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seed and Propagation Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,