No L 276/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 11. 93 COMMISSION DECISION of 20 October 1993 authorizing Member States to permit temporarily the marketing of forest reproductive material not satisfying the requirements of Council Directive 66/404/EEC (93/573/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 66/404/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of forest reproductive material ('), as last amended by Commission Decision 91/ 44/EEC (3, and in particular Article 15 thereof, Having regard to the requests submitted by certain Member States, Whereas production of reproductive material of the species set out in the Annexes is at present insufficient in all Member States, as well as in Austria, for which the Council has stated the equivalence of the reproductive material there harvested, with the result that their recuire- ments for reproductive material conforming to the provi- sions of Directive 66/404/EEC cannot be met; Whereas third countries are not in a position to supply sufficient reproductive material of the relevant species which can afford the same guarantees as Community reproductive material and which conforms to the provi- sions of the abovementioned Directive ; Whereas the Member States should therefore be author- ized to permit, for a limited period, the marketing of reproductive material of the relevant species which satis- fies less stringent requirements to cover the shortage of reproductive material satisfying the requirements of Directive 66/404/EEC ; Whereas, for genetic reasons, the reproductive material must be collected at places of origin within the natural range of the relevant species and strictest possible guaran- tees should be given to ensure the identity of the mate- rial ; Whereas, furthermore, reproductive material should be marketed only if it is accompanied by a document bearing certain details of the reproductive material in question ; Whereas each of the Member States should furthermore be authorized to permit the marketing in its territory of seed and plants which satisfy less stringent requirements in respect of provenance, as laid down in Directive () OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2326/66. () OJ No L 23, 29. 1. 1991, p. 32. 66/404/EEC, if the marketing of such material has been authorized in the other Member States under this Deci- sion ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horti- culture and Forestry, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 1. Member States are authorized to permit the market- ing in their territory of seed satisfying less stringent requi- rements in respect of provenance on the terms set out in Annex I hereto and on condition that the proof specified in Article 2 is furnished with regard to the place of prove- nance of the seed and the altitude at which it was collected. 2. Member States are authorized to permit the market- ing in their territory of plants produced in the Commu- nity from the abovementioned seed. Article 2 1.  The proof referred to in Article 1 (1) shall be deemed to be furnished where the reproductive material is of the category ‘source-identified reproductive material’ as defined in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) scheme for the control of forest reproductive material moving in international trade, or of another category defined in that scheme. 2. Where the OECD scheme referred to in paragraph 1 is not used at the place of provenance of the reproductive material, other official evidence shall be admissible. 3.  Where official evidence cannot be provided, Member States may accept other non-official evidence. Article 3 Member States are authorized on the terms set out in Annex II hereto and on condition that the proof specified in Article 2 is furnished with regard to the place of prove- nance of the seed, to permit the marketing in their terri- tory of plants produced in third countries from seed satis- fying less stringent requirements in respect of prove- nance.