# Council Directive of 9 April 1968 on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (68/193/EEC), Article 14

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. In order to eliminate any temporary difficulties in the supply of propagating material in the Community that cannot be overcome in any other way, a decision may be taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17(2) that Member States should authorise, for a specified period, the marketing throughout the Community's territory of such quantity of propagating material of a category satisfying less stringent requirements as is needed to overcome the difficulties.
2. For a category of propagation material of any given variety, the colour of the label shall be that provided for the corresponding category; in all other cases it shall be brown. The label shall always state that the propagation material in question is of a category satisfying less stringent requirements.
3. Rules for the application of paragraph 1 may be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17(2) .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1968/193/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/article-14
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