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Council Decision of 8 November 2005 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC (2005/834/EC)
Consolidated text: Council Decision of 8 November 2005 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC (2005/834/EC)
Council Decision of 8 November 2005 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC (2005/834/EC)
02005D0834 — EN — 01.01.2021 — 003.001
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COUNCIL DECISION of 8 November 2005 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC (OJ L 312 29.11.2005, p. 51) |
Amended by:
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L 363 |
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20.12.2006 |
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L 158 |
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10.6.2013 |
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DECISION (EU) 2021/537 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 24 March 2021 |
L 108 |
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29.3.2021 |
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COUNCIL DECISION
of 8 November 2005
on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC
(2005/834/EC)
Article 1
The official checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in the third countries and by the authorities, listed in the Annex, for the species covered by the Directives referred to for each of those countries shall afford the same guarantees as those carried out by the Member States.
Article 2
Amendments to the Annex, with the exception of those concerning the first column of the table, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 3(2).
Article 3
The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.
Article 4
In Decision 2003/17/EC Articles 1 and 2 shall be replaced by the following:
‘Article 1
Field inspections concerning the seed-producing crops of the species specified in Annex I carried out in the third countries listed in that Annex shall be considered equivalent to field inspections carried out in accordance with Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/54/EC and 2002/57/EC provided that they:
are carried out officially by the authorities listed in Annex I, or under the official supervision of those authorities;
satisfy the conditions laid down in point A of Annex II.
Article 2
Seed of the species specified in Annex I, produced in the third countries listed in that Annex and officially certified by the authorities listed in that Annex shall be considered equivalent to seed complying with Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/54/EC and 2002/57/EC, if it satisfies the conditions laid down in point B of Annex II.’
Article 5
This Decision shall apply from 1 July 2005.
However, Article 4 shall apply as from 1 October 2005.
Article 6
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
ANNEX
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Country (*1) |
Authority responsible for carrying out checks |
Directives |
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AR |
Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, PESCA y Alimentación, Buenos Aires |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/57/EC |
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AU |
Australian Seeds Authority, Victoria |
66/401/EEC 2002/55/EC 2002/57/EC |
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▼M1 ————— |
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CA |
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/57/EC |
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CH |
Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Agrarökologie und Landbau (FAL) Zürich Station Fédérale de Recherches en Production Végétale de Changins (RAC), Nyon |
2002/55/EC |
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CL |
Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, Santiago |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/57/EC |
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CS |
National Laboratory for Seed Testing, Novi Sad |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/57/EC |
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GB (*2) |
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Eastbrook Shaftesbury Road Cambridge CB2 8DU |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/55/EC 2002/57/EC |
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▼M2 ————— |
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IL |
Ministry of Agriculture Bet-Dagan |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/55/EC 2002/57/EC |
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JP |
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 1-2-1 Kumigaseki, Chiyodaku, Tokyo |
2002/55/EC |
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KR |
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Vegetables Division, Seoul |
2002/55/EC |
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MA |
Ministère de l’agriculture et de la mise en valeur agricole, Rabat |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/55/EC 2002/57/EC |
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NZ |
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington |
66/401/EEC |
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▼M1 ————— |
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TW |
Council of Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Department, Taipei |
2002/55/EC |
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US |
United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/55/EC 2002/57/EC |
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UY |
Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y PESCA, Montevideo |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/54/EC 2002/57/EC |
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ZA |
Department of Agriculture, Pretoria (Tshwane) |
66/401/EEC 66/402/EEC 2002/57/EC |
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AR — Argentina, AU — Australia, ►M1 — ◄ CA — Canada, CH — Switzerland, CL — Chile, CS — Serbia and Montenegro, ►M3 GB — United Kingdom, ◄ ►M2 — ◄ IL — Israel, JP — Japan, KR — Republic of Korea, MA — Morocco, NZ — New Zealand, ►M1 — ◄ TW — Taiwan, US — United States of America, UY — Uruguay, ZA — South Africa.
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In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland. |
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( 1 ) OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2289/66.