Amended proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Decision 2008/971/EC as regards the Forest Reproductive Material of the ‘tested’ category, its labelling and the names of the authorities responsible for the approval and control of the production

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Amendment 3

Martin Häusling

Proposal for a decision

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Text proposed by the Commission	Proposal for rejection
	The European Parliament rejects the Commission proposal.

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Justification

This proposal for a decision did not come in a timely manner; This lateness did not allow the co-legislators to discuss properly the draft, in particular the volume of imports concerned from each listed countries and how the equivalence with those countries was determined, including regarding genetically modified organisms; Moreover, the issue covered by this proposal for a decision is being discussed in parallel in the framework of the draft FRM regulation, and the two drafts do not seem to be in line; We therefore propose to reject this proposal and deal with the imports of “tested” FRM through the future regulation.

Amendment 4

Arash Saeidi

Proposal for a decision

Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Decision 2008/971/EC

Article 3 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
‘2. Seed and planting stock of the ‘source identified’, ‘selected’, ‘qualified’ and ‘tested’ categories of species and artificial hybrids thereof listed in Annex I to Directive 1999/105/EC, produced in the third countries listed in Annex I to this Decision and officially certified by the third country authorities listed in that Annex, shall be considered equivalent to seed and planting stock complying with Directive 1999/105/EC, provided that the conditions laid down in Annex II to this Decision are met.’;	‘2. Seed and planting stock of the ‘source identified’, ‘selected’, ‘qualified’ and ‘tested’ categories of species listed in Annex I to Directive 1999/105/EC, produced in the third countries listed in Annex I to this Decision and officially certified by the third country authorities listed in that Annex, shall be considered equivalent to seed and planting stock complying with Directive 1999/105/EC, provided that the conditions laid down in Annex II to this Decision are met.’;

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Justification

For the sake of greater clarity, and considering that the European Commission has specified that this addition is not effective, as we do not wish to add artificial hybrids, the reference is deleted.