9. 3.88 Official journal of the European Communities No L 63/13 .o , COMMISSION DECISION ' of 12 February 1988 authorizing certain Member States temporarily to take additional measures to - protect themselves against the introduction of Corynebacterium scpcdontcum as regards the Federal Republic of Germany (Only the Dutch, English and French texts are authentic) (88/127/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having ‘regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 80/665/EEC of 24 June 1980 on the control of potato ring rot('), and in particular Article 9 (2) thereof, Whereas, where a Member State considers that there is an imminent danger of the introduction into its territory of potato ring rot from another Member State, it may temporarily take any additional measures necessary to protect itself from that danger; Whereas a Member State may also take such measures where another Member State informs it of confirmed contamination by potato ring rot; Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany informed the other Member States and the Commission on 13 September 1985 that samples of potatoes originating in Niedersachsen were suspected to be contaminated by potato ring rot ; whereas complementary reports supplied by Germany mdmated that five samples of the 1986 _ potato production of that Land showed a confirmed contamination by potato ring rot; Whereas Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom notified the other Member States and the Commission that, on the basis of the abovementioned information from Germany, they were laying down certain additional measures applicable to potatoes originating in Germany, with a view to streng- thening protection against the introduction of potato ring rot from Germany; Whereas these additional measures are of different types, and include special testing requirements as well as the banning of potatoes originating in Germany ; Whereas it has not yet been possible to identify the source of contamination nor to determine the extent thereof in the Land concerned; () OJ No L 180, 14. 7. 1980, p. 30. - Whereas it is therefore justified for the Member States to adopt additional measures to protect themselves against that danger; Whereas these additional measures have to take into account the production and distribution structures in Germany, as well as the reduced risk involved in potatoes for which it is ensured that they are not planted and that they do not come directly or indirectly into contact with potatoes to be planted; and finally also the fact that hitherto ' no - findings of potato "ring rot have been confirmed in other Linder of Germany; whereas they would be without prejudice to the phytosanitary inspections which may be carried out by the introducing Member States under the Commumty plant ‘health regime ; Whereas the additional measures adopted by the abovementioned Member States should be brought into line with these principles at least in respect of the main types of potato commodities such as seed potatoes, were potatoes for consumptioon and ware potatoes for industrial processing ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 . . . The Member States mentioned in Article 4 are hereby authorized, for a period expiring on 30 June 1990, to require that the conditions laid down in paragraph 2 are met, in addition to those laid down in Directive 80/665/EEC in particular Articles 2, 5 (4) and (5) thereof, if tubers of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L) originating in the Federal Republic of Germany are to be introduced into their territories. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the following conditions shall be met: (a) The tubers : (aa) in the case of seed potatoés originating in the Land where potato ring rot was confirmed :