16.7. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 187/31 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 13 June 1988 amending Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/457/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (88/380/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Having - regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to-the proposal from the Commission (1), Having . regard to  the opinion of the - European Parliament (2); Whereas, for the reasons given -below, the following Directives on the marketing of seed and propagating material should be amended: — Council Directive 66/400/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of beet seed (3), as last amended by Directive 88/95/EEC (4), — Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (*), as last amended by Directive 87/480/EEC (¢), — Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (7), as last amended by Directive 87/120/EEC (&), — Council Directive 66/403/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of seed potatoes (®), as last amended by Directive 87/374/EEC (1°), — Council Directive 69/208/EEC of 30 June 1969 on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants (1), as last amended by Directive 87/480/EEC, — Council Directive 70/457/EEC of 29 September 1970 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (}2), as last amended by Directive 86/155/EEC (13), 0J No C 356, 31. 12. 1985, p. 37. 0J No C 68, 24. 3. 1986, p. 155. ) ) ) ) ) OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2298/66. ) OJ No L 273, 26. 9. 1987, p. 43. 7) O No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2309/66. ) O] No L 49, 18. 2. 1987, p. 39. ) ) ) ) ) — Council Directive 70/458/EEC of 29 September 1970 on the marketing of vegetable seed (14), as-last amended by Directive 87/481/EEC:(15); Whereas, . owing to their increased importance in- the Community, rescue grass, Alaska brome-grass, California bluebell, triticale, Chinese cabbage and industrial chicory should be included in the scope of the Directives; whereas, for the same reason, hybrid -varieties of certain additional cereal species and sunflower should also be included in the scope-of the Directives; whereas the conditions to be satisfied by the crop and by the seed of those species and variety types should be in conformity with the schemes for seed moving in international trade laid down by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), except for cross-pollinating varieties of triticale and hybrid varieties of certain additional cereal species, where the OECD has not yet adopted such conditions; Whereas it seems advisable, on the one hand, to revise certain provisions in order to facilitate the reproduction of seed in Member States other than that of origin and, on the other hand, to provide for Community measures to ensure the identity of that seed marketed as grown for processing; Whereas it seems advisable that additional periods should be granted to Member States to allow seed of self-pollinating cereal species which has not been the subject of an official field inspection to be certified officially under certain conditions and to permit the marketing of specific varieties of rye not satisfying certain conditions laid down in Annex Il to Directive 66/402/EEC, in order that the necessary experience for a more general and definitive solution may be acquired, in particular, with regard to rye, in the light of information to be supplied by the United Kingdom; Whereas it seems advisable that, for the purpose of seeking improved alternative solutions to certain elements of the certification schemes adopted under the Directives, temporary experiments under specific conditions should be organized; whereas, therefore, a legal basis to that effect should be introduced; Whereas the provisions on the information required for the official label in respect of species and variety names should be (%) OJ No L 225, 12. 10. 1970, p. 7. (%) OJ No L 273, 26. 9. 1987, p. 45.