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C/2026/3559

22.7.2026

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee

Amended proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries (codification)

(COM(2026) 128 final – 2024/0030(COD))

(C/2026/3559)

Referral

Council, 1.4.2026

European Parliament, 30.3.2026

Legal basis

Articles 43(2) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Adopted at plenary session

29.4.2026

Plenary session No

605

Outcome of vote

(for/against/abstentions)

184/0/5

Since the Committee has already set out its views on the content of the proposal in question in its opinions Equivalence of inspections – seed produced in Brazil and Moldova (modification)  (1), adopted on 14.2.2018, and Seed equivalence – Ukraine  (2), adopted on 18.9.2020, it has decided not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned documents.

Brussels, 29 April 2026.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Séamus BOLAND


(1)   OJ C 227, 28.6.2018, p. 76.

(2)   OJ C 429, 11.12.2020, p. 276.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/3559/oj

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