Brussels, 31.10.2024

COM(2024) 517 final

ANNEX

to the

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


ANNEX

Amendments to Annexes to Decision 2008/971/EC

1.Annex I is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX I

Countries and authorities

Country 1

Authority responsible for the approval and control of production

CA

Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service

Atlantic Forestry Centre

1350 Regent Street

Fredericton NB E3C 2G6

CH

Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)

Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK)

Forest Division

Federal Plant Protection Service

Monbijoustrasse 40

CH-3003 Bern

GB  2

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Eastbrook

Shaftesbury Road

Cambridge

CB2 8DR

NO

Norwegian Forest Seed Center

c/o Øyvind Meland Edvardsen

Box. 118, N-2301 Hamar

RS

Group for Forest Reproductive Material and Genetic Resources Directorate for Forest

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management

Ministry of AFW — Directorate for Forest

Omladinskih brigada 1

Novi Beograd

TR

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

General Directorate of Forestry

Forest Tree Seeds and Tree Breeding Research Institute Directorate Sogutozu. 06560. Ankara

US

USDA United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Cooperative Forestry

National Seed Laboratory

5675 Riggins Mill Road

Dry Branch, Georgia 31020

OFFICIAL STATE CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES

(Authorised to issue OECD certificates through cooperative agreement with USDA Forest Service)

Washington State Crop Improvement Association, Inc.

2575 NE Hopkins Ct.

Pullman, Washington 99163’

;

2.in Annex II, Section C is replaced by the following:

‘C.Additional conditions relating to the ‘qualified’ and ‘tested’ categories of seed and planting stock produced in third countries.

As regards seed or planting stock of the ‘qualified’ and ‘tested’ categories, the OECD label and the supplier’s label or document shall state whether genetic modification has been used in the production of the basic material.’;



3.the following Annex is added:

‘ANNEX III
CATEGORIES UNDER WHICH FRM FROM THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BASIC MATERIAL MAY BE IMPORTED INTO THE UNION

Basic material

Category of FRM

Source-identified

Selected

Qualified

Tested

Seed source

x

Stand

x

x

x

Seed orchard

x

x

Parents of family(ies)

x

x

Clone

x

x

Clonal mixture

x

x’

(1)    CA – Canada, CH – Switzerland, GB – United Kingdom, NO – Norway, RS – Serbia, TR – Turkiye, US – United States.;
(2)    In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Windsor Framework (see Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of 24 March 2023, OJ L 102, 17.4.2023, p.87) in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Framework, for the purposes of this Annex, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.