Commission Implementing Decision of 18 March 2014 on the organisation of a temporary experiment providing for certain derogations for the marketing of populations of the plant species wheat, barley, oats and maize pursuant to Council Directive 66/402/EEC (notified under document C(2014) 1681) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/150/EU)

Article 7 Authorisation of populations

1. Member States shall authorise populations in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.

2. An application for authorisation shall be submitted to the seed certification authority. That application shall include the following elements:

(a) name and address of the applicant;

(b) species and denomination of the population;

(c) a description of the type of technique used to generate the population, with reference, as applicable, to Article 2(c)(i), (ii) or (iii);

(d) objectives of the breeding programme;

(e) breeding and production method: breeding scheme as defined by the respective protocols, varieties used to breed and produce the population, and own production control programme used by the operator concerned;

(f) a description of its characteristics:

(i)

documentation of its characteristics which the applicant considers as important as regards yield, quality, performance, usability for low input systems, disease resistance, yield stability, taste or colour;

(ii)

experimental trial results concerning the characteristics referred to in point (i);

(g) region of production;

(h) a declaration of the applicant concerning the trueness of the elements referred to in Article 5(1);

(i) a representative sample of the population;

(j) name and address of the person responsible for the breeding, production and maintenance.

3. The seed certification authority shall check the following elements:

(a) compliance of the application with paragraph 2; and

(b) compliance of the population with the identification requirements of Article 5.

Compliance with the identification requirements of Article 5 shall be concluded on the basis of submitted documentation and inspections in the premises where the population is produced.

4. The authorisation of a population, and the elements set out in paragraph 2, shall be notified to the other Member States and the Commission.