Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Decision 2008/971/EC as regards the inclusion of forest reproductive material of the ‘qualified’ category within the scope of that Decision and the updating of the name of the authorities responsible for the approval and control of the production

Council Directive 1999/105/EC on the marketing of forest reproductive material regulates the internal marketing of reproductive material of the plant species as listed by that Directive. To facilitate trades and to promptly respond to the marketing request, that Directive foresees the possibility for the Council to establish rules for authorising the importation of reproductive material from third countries under an equivalence system.

Member States and stakeholders proposed to the Commission to submit this updating to facilitate trades, in particular the importation of forest reproductive material, and to promptly respond to the marketing request in particular for fast growing tree plantations intended for energy/biomass production.

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