Commission Directive 2007/72/EC of 13 December 2007 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of the species Galega orientalis Lam. (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Directive 66/401/EEC is amended as follows: 1. in Article 2(1)(A)(b), the following entry is inserted between the heading ‘Leguminosae’ and ‘ Hedysarum coronarium L. Sulla’: ‘ Galega orientalis Lam. fodder galega’; 2. in Article 3(1), the following entry is inserted between ‘ Festuca rubra L. x Festulolium ’ and ‘ Lolium multiflorum Lam.’: ‘ Galega orientalis Lam. fodder galega’; 3. Annexes II and III are amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.

Transposition

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 December 2008 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX 1.    Annex II to Directive 66/401/EEC is amended as follows: (a) in the table in point 2.A of Section I ‘CERTIFIED SEED’, the following line is inserted between the heading ‘ LEGUMINOSAE ’ and ‘ Hedysarum coronarium ’: Species Germination Analytical purity Maximum content of seeds of other plant species in a sample of the weight specified in column 4 of Annex III (total per column) Conditions as regards content of lupin seeds of another colour and of bitter lupin seeds Minimum germination (% of pure seed) Maximum content of hard seed (% of pure seed) Minimum analytical purity (% by weight) Maximum content of seeds of other plant species (% by weight) Total A single species Agropyron repens Alopecurus myosuroides Melilotus spp. Raphanus raphanistrum Sinapis arvensis Avena fatua, Avena ludoviciana, Avena sterilis Cuscuta spp. Rumex spp. other than Rumex acetosella and Rumex maritimus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ‘ Galega orientalis Lam. 60 40 97 2,0 1,5     0,3 0 0 0 0 (l) (m) 10 (e)’   (b) in the table in point 2.A of Section II ‘BASIC SEED’, the following line is inserted between the heading ‘ LEGUMINOSAE ’ and ‘ Hedysarum coronarium ’: Species Maximum content of seeds of other plant species Other standards or conditions Total (% by weight) Content by number in a sample of the weight specified in column 4 of Annex III (total per column) A single species Rumex spp. other than Rumex acetosella and Rumex maritimus Agropyron repens Alopecurus myosuroides Melilotus spp.   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ‘ Galega orientalis Lam. 0,3 20 2     (e) (j)’ 2.    in Annex III, in the table the following line is inserted between the heading ‘ LEGUMINOSAE ’ and ‘ Hedysarum coronarium ’: Species Maximum weight of a lot (tonnes) Minimum weight of a sample to be drawn from a lot (grams) Weight of the sample for the determinations by number provided for in columns 12 to 14 of Annex II (I) (2) (A) and columns 3 to 7 of Annex II (II) (2) (A) (grams) 1 2 3 4 ‘ Galega orientalis Lam. 10 250 200 ’