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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-6/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2005/6",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 27 December 2004 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating and planting material of Fragaria x ananassa Duch. under Council Directive 92/34/EEC for the year 2005 (notified under document number C(2004) 5290) (2005/6/EC)",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 27 December 2004\nsetting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating and planting material of Fragaria x ananassa Duch. under Council Directive 92/34/EEC for the year 2005\n(notified under document number C(2004) 5290)\n(2005/6/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 92/34/EEC of 28 April 1992 on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants, intended for fruit production, and in particular Article 20(4), (5) and (6) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 92/34/EEC provides for the necessary arrangements to be made by the Commission for Community comparative trials and tests of propagating and planting material.\n(2)\nThe technical arrangements for the carrying out of the trials and tests have been made within the Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Plants of Fruit Genera and Species.\n(3)\nA call for projects for the carrying out of those trials and tests was published on 21 June 2004 on the Internet site of the Community institutions.\n(4)\nThe proposals have been assessed according to the selection and awarding criteria set out in the call for projects. The projects, the bodies responsible for the carrying out of tests and trials and the eligible costs as well as the maximum Community financial contribution corresponding to 80 % of the eligible costs should be established.\n(5)\nCommunity comparative trials and tests should be carried out in the year 2005 on propagating and planting material harvested in 2004, and the details of such trials and tests, the eligible costs as well as the maximum Community financial contribution should also be set out yearly by an agreement signed by the authorised officer of the Commission and the body responsible for carrying out of trials.\n(6)\nAdequate representativity of the samples included in the trials and tests should be ensured, at least for certain selected plants.\n(7)\nMember States should participate in the Community comparative trials and tests, in so far as propagating and planting material of the plants concerned are usually reproduced or marketed in their territories, in order to ensure that proper conclusions may be drawn therefrom.\n(8)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Plants of Fruit Genera and Species,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
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  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 157, 10.6.1992, p. 10. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2003/111/EC (OJ L 311, 27.11.2003, p. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/plant/call2004/index_en.htm."
    }
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