Commission Decision of 19 December 2003 authorising, in respect of the marketing of seed potatoes in all or part of the territory of certain Member States, more stringent measures against certain diseases than are provided for in Annexes I and II to Council Directive 2002/56/EC (notified under document number C(2003) 4833) (Text with EEA relevance) (2004/3/EC)

[F1 Article 1 U.K.

The Member States listed in column 1 of Annex I are authorised, in respect of the marketing of seed potatoes in the regions listed against their names in column 2 of Annex I, to restrict the marketing of seed potatoes to basic seed potatoes as follows:

(a)

for seed potato production, to any of the following:

(i)

basic seed potatoes that fulfil the conditions for ‘Union grade S’ set out in point 1(a)(ii)-(v) and point 1(b)(i)-(iv) of Annex I to Commission Implementing Directive 2014/20/EU (1) , or

(ii)

basic seed potatoes that fulfil the conditions for ‘ Union grade SE ’ set out in point 2(a)(ii)-(v) and point 2(b)(i)-(iv) of Annex I to Implementing Directive 2014/20/EU;

(b)

for potato production, to any of the following:

(i)

basic seed potatoes that fulfil the conditions of ‘ Union grade S ’ set out in point 1(a)(ii)-(v) and point 1(b)(i)-(iv) of Annex I to Implementing Directive 2014/20/EU,

(ii)

basic seed potatoes that fulfil the conditions for ‘ Union grade SE ’ set out in point 2(a)(ii)-(v) and point 2(b)(i)-(iv) of Annex I to Implementing Directive 2014/20/EU, or

(iii)

basic seed potatoes that fulfil the conditions for ‘ Union grade E ’ set out in point 3(a)(ii)-(v) and point 3(b)(i)-(iv) of Annex I to Implementing Directive 2014/20/EU.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision of 24 February 2014 amending Decision 2004/3/EC as regards the applicable Union grades (notified under document C(2014) 1081) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/105/EU).

Article 2 U.K.

The Member States concerned shall set up a permanent system of regular surveys designed to ensure consistent compliance with the conditions governing authorisation and shall prepare reports. The Commission shall monitor that system.

Article 3 U.K.

The authorisation pursuant to Article 1 shall be withdrawn as soon as it is established that the conditions thereof are no longer satisfied.

Article 4 U.K.

Decision 93/231/EEC is repealed.

The references made to the said repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.

Article 5 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.