No L 100/48 Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 4. 88 COMMISSION DECISION of 7 April 1988 authorizing certain Member States to provide for exceptions form certain provi- sions of Directive 77/93/EEC in respect of potatoes for human consumption originating in Turkey (Only the Dutch, French and German texts are authentic) (88/224/EEC) THE QOMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HaVingrr'egard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No - 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products (), as last amended by Directive 87/298/EEC (3, and in particular Article 14 (3) thereof, " Having regard to the requests made by Belgium, the - Federal Republic of Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, Whereas under the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC, potato tubers originating in Turkey.may in principle not be introduced into the Community because of the risk of introducing exotic potato diseases unknown in the Community ; \ Whereas, however, Article 14 (3) of the said Directive permits exceptions from that rule, provided that it is established that there is no risk of spreading harmful organisms ; ‘ Whereas the early growing in Turkey of potatoes for. human consumption from seed potatoes supplied by Member States has become an established practice ;- Whereas information supplied by Turkey and collected in that country has shown that there are good reasons to believe that, in Turkey, potatoes can be grown under adequate health conditions and that, at present, there are no sources for the introduction of exotic potato diseases, - in particular in certain parts of the province of Adana, where potato growing started only in 1987; whereas Turkey has moreover implemented adequate health and quality standards in the potato production of that province, and whereas, taking into account that the potatoes have derived from seed potatoes supplied by the Community, exotic potato diseases unknown in the Community are not likely to occur; Whereas it can therefore be established, on the basis of the information available at present, that there is no risk of harmful organims spreading, provided that certain ()'OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. () OJ No L 151, 11. 6. 1987, p. 1. (a) the special technical conditions are complied with ; whereas the potatoes are introduced at a time when they cannot influence the health status of potatoes produced in the Community ; - Whereas the requesting Member States should therefore be authorized to provide for derogations .in respect of " potatoes for human consumption originating in Turkey, under the aforementioned special -technical conditions, for the forthcoming early potato season; whereas this system will be reconsidered, depending on the results of monitoring to be carried out on potatoes introduced into’ the Community pursuant to this Decision ; 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 1. Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are hereby authorized to provide, under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2 hereof, for exceptions from Article 4 (1) of Directive 77/93/EEC, with regard to the prohibitions referred to in Part A(9a) of Annex III thereto for potatoes for human consumption originating in Turkey, with a view to ~ marketing them in their respective territories or between them. 2. The following specific conditions shall be satisfied : potatoes shall be potatoes for human consumption ; : (b) they shall either be immature potatoes, ie. ‘unsuberized’ potatoes with loose skin, or they shall have been treated for the suppression of thier faculty of germination ; : : ' (c) they shall have been gron in the brovince of Adana, south of the line Kransali — Duzici; (d) they shall belong to varieties the seed potatoes of which were imported into Turkey only from Member States ; (e) they shall be the direct progeny of seed potatoes officially certified in 1987 as ‘basic seed’ or ‘certified seed’ in Member States ;