Council Directive 89/366/EEC of 30 May 1989 amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed potatoes

COUNCIL  DIRECTIVE
of 30 May 1989
amending Directive 66/403/EEC on the marketing of seed potatoes
(89/366/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas Council Directive 66/403/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 88/380/EEC (4), provides in Article 13 (2) that Member States may be authorized, in respect of the marketing of seed potatoes in all or part of their territories, to take more stringent measures than provided for in Annex I to the Directive against particular virus diseases which do not exist in those regions or which appear particularly harmful to crops in those regions;
Whereas it has appeared that the scope of this provision should be extended to harmful organisms other than virus diseases;
Whereas Directive 66/403/EEC also provides in Article 15 (2) that, in principle, with effect from certain dates, Member States may no longer determine for themselves the equivalence of seed potatoes harvested in third countries with seed potatoes harvested within the Community and complying with that Directive;
Whereas, however, since work to establish Community equivalence for all the third countries concerned had not been completed, Article 15 (2a) of that Directive permitted Member States to extend to 31 March 1988 the period of validity of equivalence which they had already determined in respect of certain countries not covered by the Community equivalences;
Whereas the said work is still incomplete and another date should therefore be set in that respect,