Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1813 of 29 October 2019 amending Implementing Directive 2014/96/EU on the requirements for the labelling, sealing and packaging of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production, falling within the scope of Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards the colour of the label for certified categories of propagating material and fruit plants and the content of the supplier’s document
Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1813 of 29 October 2019 amending Implementing Directive 2014/96/EU on the requirements for the labelling, sealing and packaging of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production, falling within the scope of Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards the colour of the label for certified categories of propagating material and fruit plants and the content of the supplier’s document
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Implementing Directive 2014/96/EU is amended as follows:
(1)
In Article 2, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
‘4.
The colour of the label shall be:
(a)
white with a diagonal violet stripe for pre-basic-material;
(b)
white for basic material;
(c)
blue for certified material.’;
(2)
Article 5 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 5
Supplier’s document for CAC material
1. Member States shall ensure that CAC material is marketed with a document prepared by the supplier in compliance with paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 (‘the supplier’s document’).
Member States shall ensure that the supplier’s document does not resemble the accompanying document referred to in Article 3, so as to avoid any possible confusion between those two documents.
2. The supplier’s document shall contain at least the following information:
(a)
the indication ‘EU rules and standards’;
(b)
the name of the Member State where the document has been prepared, or the respective code;
(c)
the responsible official body or the respective code;
(d)
the name of the supplier or its registration number/code issued by the responsible official body;
(e)
the individual serial number, week number or batch number;
(f)
the botanical name;
(g)
the indication “CAC material”;
(h)
the denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone. In the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety: the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned. For grafted fruit plants, such information shall be given for the rootstock and the top-graft. For varieties for which an application for official registration or for a plant variety right is pending, such information shall indicate: “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;
(i)
the date of issue of the document.
3. Where it is affixed to the CAC material, the colour of the supplier’s document shall be yellow.
4. The supplier’s document shall be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the Union, clearly visible and legible.’
1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 March 2020, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall immediately communicate the text of those provisions to the Commission.
They shall apply those provisions from 1 April 2020.
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.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
1. Member States may, until 30 June 2021, allow Conformitas Agraria Communitatis (‘CAC’) material to which labels in a colour other than yellow are affixed, to be marketed in their own territory, where those coloured labels were already in use up to 1 April 2020.
2. Member States shall ensure that, when marketed, fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants which qualify as CAC material shall be identified by a reference to this Article in the supplier’s document when used as a label.
