No L 100/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 4. 80 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE . of 18 March 1980 amending Directive 77/93/EEC on protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products (80/392/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN - COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro- pean Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion, ' Having regard to the opinion of the European Par- liament (1), ’ Whereas by its Directive 77/93/EEC (?) the Council laid down protective measures against the introduc- tion into the Member States of organisms harmful to plants or plant products; s Whereas, having regard to developments since the adoption of the said- Directive, it should be amended for the reasons given below; Whereas the International Plant Protection Conven- tion of 6 December 1951, despite the recommenda- tions put forward at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) consultations of 1976 and 1979, has not been amended in such a way as to follow the introduction of the specimen certifi- cates provided for in the Directive; whereas, there- fore, the specimen certificates set out in the current version of the Convention should be allowed for a transitional period; Whereas, in the case of seeds, the measures to ensure compliance with the requirements laid down in the Directive are to be determined at Community level; whereas the period specified for this purpose has not been sufficient and should therefore be extended; Whereas in the case of importations of plants or plant products from non-member countries the authorities responsible in such countries for issuing certificates should be, in principle, those empow- ered under the International Plant Protection Con- vention; whereas it could be desirable to establish lists of these authorities; () OJ No C 289, 19. 11. 1979, p. 42. () OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. Whereas the measures laid down in the Directive in the case of oak wood in:the round to protect the Community against the introduction of oak wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum) into the Community have on the one hand proved insufficient and on the other unnecessarily strict; whereas, in the interests of effective protection, a basis should be established for-the extension of such measures to sawn oak tim- ber; whereas the Member States should also be given the power to permit, under certain conditions to be determined beforehand -at Community level, derogations from the general requirements on oak wilt and similar cases; Whereas it is useful, furthermore, to clarify certain provisions of the Directive; Whereas also the date of the implementation of the Directive by the Member States should be adjusted to take into account existing difficulties, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE.: Article 1 Directive 77/93/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 2 (2) shall be replaced by the following: ‘2. This Directive, save where it expressly pro- vides otherwise, concerns wood only in so far as it retains all or part of its natural round surface, with or without bark.’; 2. the following sentence shall be added to Article 5(1): ‘The plant products listed in Annex IV, Part A (1) to (5) may not be introduced into their terri- tory unless accompanied by an official certifi- cate stating the country in which these products originate.’; 3. in Article 5 (2), (¢) shall be deleted;