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  "legislation": "eudn/2004/660",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 5 July 2004 on the Community position on the amendment of the Appendices to Annex 6 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (2004/660/EC)",
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  "number": "APÉNDICE",
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  "text": "‘APPENDIX 1\nLEGISLATION\nSection 1 (recognition of the conformity of legislation)\nA.\nCOMMUNITY PROVISIONS\n1.\nBasic legislation\nCouncil Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2298/66), as last amended by Directive 2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).\nCouncil Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2309/66), as last amended by Directive 2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).\nCouncil Directive 2002/53/EC of 13 June 2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Official Journal L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 1).\nCouncil Directive 2002/54/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of beet seed (OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p.12), as last amended by Directive 2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).\nCouncil Directive 2002/56/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of seed potatoes (OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 60), as last amended by Directive 2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).\nCouncil Directive 2002/57/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants (OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 74), as last amended by Directive 2003/61/EC (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23).\n2.\nImplementing provisions\nCommission Directive 74/268/EEC of 2 May 1974 laying down special conditions concerning the presence of ’Avena fatua’ in fodder plant and cereal seed (OJ L 141, 24.5.1974, p. 19), as last amended by Directive 78/511/EEC (OJ L 157, 15.6.1978, p. 34).\nCommission Directive 75/502/EEC of 25 July 1975 limiting the marketing of seed of smooth-stalk meadow grass (Poa pratensis L.) to seed which has been officially certified ‘basic seed’ or ‘certified seed’ (OJ L 228, 29.8.1975, p. 26)\nCommission Decision 80/755/EEC of 17 July 1980 authorising the indelible printing of prescribed information on packages of cereal seed (OJ L 207, 9.8.1980, p. 37), as last amended by Decision 81/109/EEC (OJ L 64, 11.3.1981, p. 13).\nCommission Decision 81/675/EEC of 28 July 1981 establishing that particular sealing systems are ‘non-reusable systems’ within the meaning of Council Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 69/208/EEC and 70/458/EEC (OJ L 246, 29.8.1981, p. 26), as last amended by Decision 86/563/EEC (OJ L 327, 22.11.1986, p. 50).\nCommission Directive 86/109/EEC of 27 February 1986 limiting the marketing of seed of certain species of fodder plants and oil and fibre plants to seed which has been officially certified as ‘basic seed’ or ‘certified seed’ (OJ L 93, 8.4.1986, p. 21), as last amended by Directive 91/376/EEC (OJ L 203, 26.7.1991, p. 108).\nCommission Directive 93/17/EEC of 30 March 1993 determining Community grades of basic seed potatoes, together with the conditions and designations applicable to such grades (OJ L 106, 30.4.1993, p. 7).\nCommission Decision 97/125/EC of 24 January 1997 authorising the indelible printing of prescribed information on packages of seed of oil and fibre plants and amending Decision 87/309/EEC authorising the indelible printing of prescribed information on packages of certain fodder plant species (OJ L 48, 19.2.1997, p. 35).\nCouncil Decision 97/788/EC of 17 November 1997 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in third countries (OJ L 322, 25.11.1997, p. 39), as last amended by Commission Decision 2004/120/EC of 29 January 2004 (OJ L 36, 7.2.2004, p. 57).\nCommission Decision 98/320/EC of 27 April 1998 on the organisation of a temporary experiment on seed sampling and seed testing pursuant to Council Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC and 69/208/EEC (OJ L 140, 12.5.1998, p. 14), as last amended by Decision 2002/280/EC (OJ L 99, 16.4.2002, p. 22).\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 930/2000 of May 2004 establishing implementing rules as to the suitability of the denominations of varieties of agricultural plant species and vegetable species (OJ L 108, 5.5.2000, p. 3).\nCouncil Decision 2003/17/EC of 16 December 2002 on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries (OJ L 8, 14.1.2003, p. 10) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 885/2004 (OJ L 168, 1.5.2004, p. 1).\nCommission Directive 2003/90/EC of 6 October 2003 setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/53/EC as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of agricultural plant species (OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, p. 7).\nDecisión 2004/266/CE de la Comisión, de 17 de marzo de 2004, por la que se autoriza la impresión indeleble de las indicaciones requeridas en los envases de semillas de plantas forrajeras (DO L 83 de 20.3.2004, p. 23).\nB.\nSWISS PROVISIONS\nFederal Law of 29 April 1998 on agriculture, as last amended on 20 June 2003 (RO 2003 4217).\nOrdinance of 7 December 1998 on the production and entry into free circulation of plant propagating material, as last amended on 26 November 2003 (RO 2003 4921).\nDFE Ordinance of 7 December 1998 on seeds and seedlings of species of arable crops and fodder plants, as last amended on 8 March 2002 (RO 2002 1489).\nOFAG Ordinance of 7 December 1998 on the catalogue of varieties of cereals, potatoes, fodder plants, oil and fibre plants and beet, as last amended on 15 May 2003 (RO 2003 1404).\nSection 2 (mutual recognition of certificates)\nA.\nCOMMUNITY PROVISIONS\n1.\nBasic legislation\n—\n2.\nSWISS PROVISIONS\n—\nB.\nSWISS PROVISIONS\n—\nC.\nCERTIFICATES REQUIRED FOR IMPORTS\n—\nAPPENDIX 2\nSEED INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION BODIES\nA.\nEUROPEAN COMMUNITY\nBELGIUM\n1.. Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap\nAdministratie Kwaliteit Landbouwproductie (AKL)\nDienst Normering en Controle Plantaardige Productie (NCPP)\nWTC III — 12de verd.\nSimon Bolivarlaan, 30\nB-1000 Brussels\n2.. Ministère de la Région Wallonne\nDirection Générale de l'Agriculture\nDivision de la Recherche, du Développement et de la qualité\nDirection de la Qualité des Produits\nBloc B\nRue des Moulins de Meuse 4\nB-5000 Beez\nCZECH REPUBLIC\nÚstřední kontrolní a zkušební ústav zemědělský (Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture)\nOdbor osiv a sadby (Division of Seed Materials and Planting Stock)\nZa Opravnou 4\nCZ-150 06 Praha 5 – Motol\nDENMARK\nMinisteriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri\nPlantedirektoratet\nSkovbrynet 20\nDK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby\nGERMANY\nSenatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Frauen\nFachbereich Landwirtschaft\nReferat IV B 61\nD-10820 Berlin\nB\nLandwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen\nReferat 51 — Landbau\nAnerkennungsstelle NRW\nEndenicher Allee 60\nD-53115 Bonn\nBN\nDer Senator für Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend, Soziales und Umweltschutz\nReferat 33\nGroße Weidestraße 4—16\nD-28195 Bremen\nHB\nBayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft\nInstitut für Pflanzenbau u. Pflanzenzüchtung\n— Amtliche Saatenanerkennung —\nPostfach 16 41\nD-85316 Freising\nFS\nLandwirtschaftskammer Hannover\n— Referat 32.1 —\nPostfach 2 69\nD-30002 Hannover\nH\nLandesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau\nSachsen-Anhalt (LLG)\nAbt. 6, Dez. 62\nPrüf- u. Anerkennungsstelle für Saat- u. Pflanzgut\nHeinrich-u.-Thomas-Mann-Str. 19\nD-06108 Halle\nHAL\nFreie und Hansestadt Hamburg\nBehörde für Wirtschaft und Arbeit\nAmt Wirtschaft u. Landwirtschaft\nPostfach 11 21 09\nD-20421 Hamburg\nHH\nLandesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Fischerei\nMecklenburg-Vorpommern\nLandesanerkennungsstelle f. Saat- u. Pflanzgut\nGraf-Lippe-Straße 1\nD-18059 Rostock\nHRO\nThüringer Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft\nReferat Saatgut\nNaumburger Straße 98\nD-07743 Jena\nJ\nLandwirtschaftliche Untersuchungs- und Forschungsanstalt\nAugustenberg\nSaatgutanerkennungsstelle\nPostfach 43 02 30\nD-76217 Karlsruhe\nKA\nLandwirtschaftskammer\nSchleswig-Holstein\nAbteilung Pflanzenbau\nFachbereich Saatgutwesen\nAm Kamp 9\nD-24783 Osterrönfeld\nKI\nLandwirtschaftskammer\nRheinland-Pfalz\n— Amtliche Saatenanerkennung —\nPostfach 18 51\nD-55508 Bad Kreuznach\nKH\nHessisches Dienstleistungszentrum\nfür Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau und Naturschutz\nKölnische Straße 48—50\nD-34117 Kassel\nKS\nSächsische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft\nFachbereich 4, Ref. 43\nSaatgut- und Sortenwesen\nWaldheimer Str. 219\nD-01683 Nossen\nMEI\nLandwirtschaftskammer Weser-Ems\nFachbereich 3.10\nAnerkennungsstelle\nPostfach 25 49\nD-26015 Oldenburg\nOL\nLandwirtschaftskammer\nfür das Saarland\nLessingstraße 12\nD-66121 Saarbrücken\nSB\nLandesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Landwirtschaft\nReferat 45 — Saatenanerkennung\nVerwaltungszentrum — Teilbereich C\nSteinplatz 1\nD-15838 Wünsdorf\nTF\nESTONIA\nTaimetoodangu Inspektsioon (Estonian Plant Production Inspectorate (PPI))\nVabaduse plats 4\nEE-71020 Viljandi\n1.. Seed Certification Department (seeds other than potato)\n2.. Plant Health Department (only potato)\nGREECE\nMinistry of Rural Development and Food\nDirectorate General of Plant Production\nDirectorate of Inputs of Crop Production\n2 Acharnon Street\nGR-101 76 Athens\nSPAIN\nMinisterio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación\nOficina española de variedades vegetales Madrid\nGeneralitat de Catalunya\nDirección General de la Producción Agraria Barcelona\nComunidad Autónoma de País Vasco\nDirección de Agricultura Vitoria-Álava\nJunta de Galicia\nDirección General de Producción Agropecuaria Santiago de Compostela\nGobierno de Cantabria\nDirección General de Agricultura Santander\nPrincipado de Asturias\nDirección General de Agroalimentación Oviedo\nJunta de Andalucía\nDirección General de la Producción Agraria Sevilla\nComunidad Autónoma de Murcia\nDirección General de Agricultura e Industrias Agrarias Murcia\nDiputacion General de Aragón\nDirección General de Tecnología Agraria Zaragoza\nJunta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha\nDirección General de la Producción Agraria Toledo\nGeneralitat Valenciana\nDirección General de Innovación Agraria y Ganadería Valencia\nGobierno de La Rioja\nDirección General de Desarrollo Rural Logroño\nJunta de Extremadura\nDirección General de Producción, Investigación y Formación Agraria Mérida\nGobierno de Canarias\nDirección General de Desarrollo Agrícola Santa Cruz de Tenerife\nJunta de Castilla y León\nDirección General de Producción Agropecuaria Valladolid\nGobierno Balear\nDirección General de Agricultura Palma de Mallorca\nComunidad de Madrid\nDirección General de Agricultura Madrid\nComunidad Foral de Navarra\nDirección General de Agricultura y Ganadería Pamplona\nFRANCE\nMinistère de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation, de la Pêche et des Affaires Rurales\nService Officiel de Contrôle et de Certification (SOC)\nParis\nIRELAND\nThe Department of Agriculture and Food\nAgriculture House\nKildare Street\nDublin 2\nITALY\nEnte Nazionale Sementi Elette (ENSE)\nMilan\nCYPRUS\nMinistry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment\nDepartment of Agriculture\n1412, Nicosia\nLATVIA\nValsts Augu Aizsardzības dienests (State Plant Protection Service)\nRepublikas lauk. 2\nLV-1981 Rīga\nLITHUANIA\nValstybinė sėklų ir grūdų tarnyba prie Žemės ūkio ministerijos (State Seed and Grain Service under the Ministry of Agriculture)\nV. Kudirkos 18\nLT-2600 Vilnius\nLUXEMBOURG\nL'Administration des Services Techniques de l'Agriculture (ASTA)\nService de la Production Végétale\nL-1470 Luxembourg\nHUNGARY\nOrszágos Mezőgazdasági Minősítő Intézet (National Institute for Agricultural Quality Control)\nKeleti Károly u. 24.\nPf. 30, 93\nH-1525 Budapest 114.\nMALTA\nAgricultural Services Laboratories,\nAgricultural Services & Rural Development Division,\nMinistry for Rural Affairs and the Environment\nGhammieri\nMarsa\nNETHERLANDS\nNederlandse Algemene Keuringsdienst voor zaaizaad en pootgoed van landbouwgewassen (NAK)\nEmmeloord\nAUSTRIA\nBundesamt für Ernährungssicherheit\nSpargelfeldstrasse 191, PO Box 400\nA-1226 Vienna\nPOLAND\nPaństwowa Inspekcja Ochrony Roślin i Nasiennictwa (State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service)\nUl. Wspólna 30\nPL-00-930 Warszawa\nPORTUGAL\nMinistério da Agricultura, Desenvolvimento Rural e Pescas\nDirecçãon Geral de Protecção das Culturas\nEdificio I\nTapada da Ajuda\nP-1349-018 Lisboa\nSLOVENIA\nKmetijski inštitut Slovenije (Agricultural institute of Slovenia)\nHacquetova 17\nSI-1000 Ljubljana\nSLOVAK REPUBLIC\nÚstredný kontrolný a skúšobný ústav poľnohospodársky (Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture)\nOdbor osív a sadív (Department of Seeds and Planting Material)\nMatúškova 21\nSL-833 16 Bratislava\nFINLAND\nKasvintuotannon tarkastuskeskus (KTTK)/Kontrollcentralen för växtproduktion\nSiementarkastusosasto/Frökontrollavdelningen\nBO Box 111\nFI-32201 Loimaa\nSWEDEN\n(a) Seeds other than seed potatoes\nStatens utsädeskontroll (SUK) (Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute)\nSvalöv\nFrökontrollen Mellansverige AB\nÖrebro\n(b) Seed potatoes\nStatens utsädeskontroll (SUK) (Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute)\nSvalöv\nUNITED KINGDOM\nEngland and Wales\n(a) Seeds other than seed potatoes\nDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\nPlant Varieties and Seeds Division\nCambridge\n(b) Seed potatoes\nDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\nPlant Health Division\nYork\nScotland\nScottish Executive\nEnvironment and Rural Affairs Department\nEdinburgh\nNorthern Ireland\nDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development\nEnvironmental Policy\nBelfast\nB.\nSWITZERLAND\nOffice fédéral de l'agriculture\nService des semences et plants\nCH-3003 Berne\nTel. (41-31) 322 25 50\nFax (41-31) 322 26 34\nAPPENDIX 3\nDEROGATIONS\nCommunity derogations allowed by Switzerland\n(a)\ndispensing certain Member States from the obligation to apply Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC and 2002/57/EC on the marketing of fodder plant, cereal and oil and fibre plant seed to certain species:\nCommission Decision 69/270/EEC (OJ L 220, 1.9.1969, p. 8)\nCommission Decision 69/271/EEC (OJ L 220, 1.9.1969, p. 9)\nCommission Decision 69/272/EEC (OJ L 220, 1.9.1969, p. 10)\nCommission Decision 70/47/EEC (OJ L 13, 19.1.1970, p. 26), as last amended by Decision 80/301/EEC (OJ L 68, 14.3.1980, p. 30)\nCommission Decision 70/48/EEC (OJ L 13, 19.1.1970, p. 27)\nCommission Decision 70/49/EEC (OJ L 13, 19.1.1970, p. 28)\nCommission Decision 70/93/EEC (OJ L 25, 2.2.1970, p. 16)\nCommission Decision 70/94/EEC (OJ L 25, 2.2.1970, p. 17)\nCommission Decision 70/481/CEE (OJ L 237, 28.10.1970, p. 29)\nCommission Decision 73/123/EEC (OJ L 145, 2.6.1973, p. 43)\nCommission Decision 74/5/EEC (OJ L 12, 15.1.1974, p. 13)\nCommission Decision 74/360/EEC (OJ L 196, 19.7.1974, p. 18), as last amended by Decision 2003/234/EC (OJ L 86, 3.4.2003, p. 48)\nCommission Decision 74/361/EEC (OJ L 196, 19.7.1974, p. 19)\nCommission Decision 74/362/EEC (OJ L 196, 19.7.1974, p. 20)\nCommission Decision 74/491/EEC (OJ L 267, 3.10.1974, p. 18)\nCommission Decision 74/532/EEC (OJ L 299, 7.11.1974, p. 14)\nCommission Decision 80/301/EEC (OJ L 68, 14.3.1980, p. 30)\nCommission Decision 80/512/EEC (OJ L 126, 21.5.1980, p. 15)\nCommission Decision 86/153/EEC (OJ L 115, 3.5.1986, p. 26)\nCommission Decision 89/101/EEC (OJ L 38, 10.2.1989, p. 37);\n(b)\nauthorising certain Member States to restrict the marketing of seed of certain varieties (cf. Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species, 22nd complete edition, column 4 (OJ C 91A, 16.4.2003, p. 1);\n(c)\nauthorising certain Member States to adopt more stringent provisions concerning the presence of Avena fatua in cereal seed:\nCommission Decision 74/269/EEC (OJ L 141, 24.5.1974, p. 20), as amended by Decision 78/512/EEC (OJ L 157, 15.6.1978, p. 35)\nCommission Decision 74/531/EEC (OJ L 299, 7.11.1974, p. 13)\nCommission Decision 95/75/EC (OJ L 60, 18.3.1995, p. 30)\nCommission Decision 96/334/EC (OJ L 127, 25.5.1996, p. 39);\n(d)\nauthorising, 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:\nCommission Decision 2004/3/EC (OJ L 2, 6.1.2004, p. 47);\n(e)\nauthorisation to assess the satisfaction of the varietal purity standards for seed of apomictic uniclonal varieties of Poa pratensis also on the basis of the results of seed and seedling testing\nCommission Decision 85/370/EEC (OJ L 209, 6.8.1985, p. 41).\nAPPENDIX 4\nLIST OF THIRD COUNTRIES\nArgentina\nAustralia\nBulgaria\nCanada\nChile\nCroatia\nIsrael\nMorocco\nNew Zealand\nRomania\nSerbia and Montenegro\nSouth Africa\nTurkey\nUnited States of America\nUruguay’",
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      "text": "Local varieties authorised for marketing in Switzerland are not covered."
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      "text": "Seeds of the species covered by the legislation under Appendix 1, section 1."
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      "text": "Recognition is based on Council Decision 2003/17/EC (OJ L 8, 14.1.2003, p. 10), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 885/2004 (OJ L 168, 1.5.2004, p. 1) for field inspections of seed-producing crops and seeds produced, and on Council Decision 97/788/EC (OJ L 322, 25.11.1998, p. 39), as last amended by Commission Decision 2004/120/EC of 29 January 2004 (OJ L 36, 7.2.2004, p. 57) for checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties. The Agreement on the European Economic Area applies in the case of Norway."
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