Article 4
The Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes shall be amended as follows: 1. The following shall be substituted for the second sentence of Article 7 (1): "In the case of tubers which are too large to pass through a square mesh of 35 7 35 mm, the upper and lower size-limits shall be expressed in multiples of five." 2. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 7: "4. The Member States may (a) apply the provisions of the second part of the first sentence of paragraph 1 to varieties other than those referred to therein; (b) increase the maximum permitted variation in size between tubers in a consignment." 3. The following shall be substituted for the text of Article 8 (1): "1. The Member States shall require that basic seed potatoes and certified seed potatoes be marketed only in sufficiently homogeneous consignments and in closed packages or containers which must be sealed and bear, as prescribed in Articles 9 and 10, a sealing device and markings. The packages must be new ; the containers must be clean." 4. In Article 9 (1) the words "and containers" shall be added after the word "packages" and the words "package or" before the word "container". 5. In Article 10 (1) the words "and containers" shall be inserted after the word "packages" and in Article 11 the words "packages or" shall be inserted before the word "containers". 6. In Article 12 the words "on the package or inside it or on the container" shall be substituted for the words "on the container or inside it". 7. In Article 13 (1) the words "package or" shall be inserted before the word "containers". 8. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 13: "4. Those Member States which have provided for exemptions in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 (2) B (a) shall ensure that bred seed potatoes of stages prior to basic seed potatoes are subject to no marketing restrictions on account of their characters, examination arrangements, marking and sealing, (a) if they have been officially checked by the competent certification authority, in accordance with the provisions applicable for the certification of basic seed potatoes, (b) if they are placed in packages or containers in accordance with the provisions of this Directive, and (c) if the packages or containers bear an official label giving at least the following particulars: - certification authority and Member State or their distinguishing abbreviation - producer's identification number or consignment reference number - species - variety - the description "pre-basic seed potatoes". The label shall be white with a diagonal purple line." 9. The following shall be substituted for the text of Article 16 (1): "1. In order to remove any temporary difficulties in the general supply of basic seed potatoes or certified seed potatoes that occur in one or more Member States and cannot be overcome within the Community, one or more Member States may be authorised, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19, to permit, for a specified period, the marketing of seed potatoes of a category subject to less stringent requirements or of seed potatoes of varieties not included in the "Common Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species" or in their national Catalogues of Varieties." 10. Article 18 shall be renumbered Article (1). 18 11. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 18: "2. The Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the following particulars are presented during the marketing of seed potatoes coming from another Member State or from a third country: (a) species (b) variety (c) category (d) country of production and control authority (e) country of dispatch (f) importer (g) quantity of seed potatoes. The manner in which these particulars must be presented may be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19." 12. The following points shall be added to Annex I: "5. The production ground must not be infected by heterodera rostochiensis Woll. 6. The crop must be free from (a) Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Perc. (b) Corynebacterium sepedonicum (Spieck. and Kotth.) Skapt. and Burkh. " 13. In Annex II the letter "A" shall be inserted before the word "Tolerances". 14. Annex II shall be supplemented as follows: "B. The seed potatoes shall be free from Heterodera rostochiensis, Synchytrium endobioticum, Corynebacterium sepedonicum and Pseudomonas solanacearum."