Tenth Commission Directive 91/27/EEC of 19 December 1990 amending certain Annexes to Council Directive 77/93/EEC on protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products

TENTH COMMISSION DIRECTIVE  of 19 December 1990  amending certain Annexes to Council Directive 77/93/EEC on protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products  (91/27/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 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products (1), as last amended by Commission Directive 90/506/EEC (2), and in  particular Article 13, second paragraph, indents three and four thereof,
Whereas Directive 77/93/EEC laid down protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products; whereas the harmful organisms concerned are listed in Annex II to that Directive; whereas a list  of commodities which are subject to an import ban under some conditions is also given in Annex III; whereas this Directive also specified special requirements, which are to be met in order to have better guarantees of freedom from the abovementioned  harmful organisms;
Whereas the scope of the Directive should be clarified in respect of intergeneric hybrids resulting from crosses between the genera Citrus L., Fortunella Swingle and Poncirus Raf.;
Whereas therefore the relevant Annexes of Directive 77/93/EEC should be amended accordingly;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health,