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2004/842/EC: Commission Decision of 1 December 2004… Article 14

2004/842/EC: Commission Decision of 1 December 2004… Article 14

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Article 14

Notwithstanding an authorisation granted under Article 2, a Member State may prohibit the use of the variety in all or in part of its territory or lays down appropriate conditions for cultivating the variety in accordance, in cases provided for in subparagraph (c), with the conditions for using the products resulting from such cultivation: (a) where it is established that the cultivation of the variety could be harmful from the point of view of plant health to the cultivation of other varieties or species; or (b) where official growing trials carried out in the applicant Member State show that the variety does not, in any part of its territory, produce results corresponding to those obtained from a comparable variety accepted in the territory of that Member State or, where it is well known that the variety is not suitable for cultivation in any part of its territory because of its type of maturity class; or (c) where it has valid reasons for considering that the variety presents a risk for human health or the environment.

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