7. 10. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 250/31 COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 93/63/EEC of 5 July 1993 setting out the implementing measures concerning the supervision and monitoring of suppliers and establishments pursuant to Council Directive 91/682/EEC on the marketing of ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants - THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing. the European Economic Community, 1 Having regard to Council Directive 91/682/EEC of 19 December 1991 on the marketing of ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants (1), and in particular Article 6 (4) thereof, Whereas it is appropriate to set out measures concerning the supervision of monitoring of all suppliers and their establishments, with the exception of those whose activity is confined to the placing on the market of ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants; Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: | Article 1 1. This Directive lays down implementing measures concerning the supervision and monitoring of suppliers and their establishments, other than those whose activity is confined to the placing on the market of ornamental propagating material and ornamental plants, pursuant to Article 6 (4) of Directive 91/682/EEC, in cases where the checks referred to in Article § (2) of the said Directive are carried out by the supphers themselves or an accredited supplier. Article 2 The responsible official body shall carry out regularly, at least once a year at an appropriate time, supervision and monitoring of suppliers and their establishments in order to ensure continued compliance with the requirements laid down in Directive 91/682/EEC, and in particular with the principles set out in the first to fourth indents of Article 5 (1) Of No L 376, 31. 12. 1991, p. 21. - (2) thereof, account being taken of the particular nature of the activity or activities of the supplier. Article 3 As far as the identification of critical points in the production process referred to in the first indent of Article 5 (2) of Directive 91/682/EEC and the keeping of records referred to in the fourth indent of Article 5 (2) thereof are concerned, the responsible official body shall supervise and monitor the supplier to ensure that the supplier: (a) continues to take into account the followmg critical points, where appropriate: — the quality of propagating material and plants utilized to start the production process; — the sowing, pricking-out, potting-up, and plantmg of propagating material and plants, — compliance with the conditions laid down in Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Council Directive 77/93/EEC (2), : — the cultivation pl‘an and method, . — general crop care, 7 — the multiplication operations, — the harvesting operations, — hygiene, — treatments, — packaging, — storage, - transport, — administration; (b) keeps records, with a view to having complete information available for the said responsible official bodies, on: (i) plants or other objects: — purchased for storage or planting on the premises, — under production, or — dispatched to others; and (2) O] NoL 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20.