89/540/EEC: Commission Decision of 22 September 1989 on the organization of a temporary experiment on the marketing of seeds and propagating material

• Published date: 04 October 1989
• Subject Matter: Seeds and seedlings
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Communities, L 286, 4 October 1989

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89/540/EEC: Commission Decision of 22 September 1989 on the organization of a temporary experiment on the marketing of seeds and propagating material

Official Journal L 286 , 04/10/1989 P. 0024 - 0026
Finnish special edition: Chapter 3 Volume 30 P. 0148
Swedish special edition: Chapter 3 Volume 30 P. 0148

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 September 1989

on the organization of a temporary experiment on the marketing of seeds and propagating material

(89/540/EEC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/400/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of beet seed (1), as last amended by Directive 88/380/EEC (2), and in particular Article 13a thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (3), as last amended by Directive 89/100/EEC (4), and in particular Article 13a thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (5), as last amended by Directive 89/2/EEC (6), and in particular Article 13a thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 69/208/EEC of 30 June 1969 on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants (7), as last amended by Directive 88/380/EEC, and in particular Article 12a thereof,

Whereas, under the provisions of the aforementioned Directives, seed can be officially certified only where the satisfaction of the conditions to be satisfied by the seed-producing crop has been established in official field inspections;

Whereas it has been claimed that field inspections that are not official within the meaning of the said Directives could ensure substantial simplification of the procedures for official seed certification, without a significant decrease in the quality of the seed;

Whereas this claim cannot yet be confirmed, at Community level, on the basis of the information available;

Whereas it is therefore useful to organize a temporary experiment under specified conditions, with the aim of assessing whether the above claim can be sustained at Community level and in particular whether there will not be a significant decrease in the quality of the seed compared with that achieved under the system of official field inspections;

Whereas the conditions of that experiment should be specified in such a manner as to enable the maximum amount of information to be collected at Community level, with a view to drawing proper...