29.11.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities L 312/27 COMMISSION DECISION of 27 November 2001 authorising the Member States temporarily to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in Switzerland (notified under document number C(2001) 3764) (2001/836/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community ('), as last amended by Commission Directive 2001/33/EC (3, and in particular Article 15(1) thereof, Having regard to the request made by France, Whereas: (1) Under the provisions of Directive 2000/29/EC, plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in third countries may in principle not be introduced into the Community. (2)  Commission Decisions 97[159/EC (}), 1999/166/EC (%), 2000/189/EC (°) and 2001/5/EC (%), authorised Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in Switzerland provided that specific conditions are satisfied. (3)  The circumstances justifying the authorisation are still valid. There is no new information giving cause for revision of the specific conditions. (4)  Therefore a derogation should be authorised for a limited period, provided that it includes specific condi- tions, and without prejudice to Council Directive 68/ 193/EEC ('), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and any implementing measures made thereunder. (5)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health, 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1. 127, 9.5.2001, p. 42. 62, 4.3.1997, p. 36. 55, 3.3.1999, p. 16. 59, 4.3.2000, p. 18. 2, 5.1.2001, p. 22. 93, 17.4.1968, p. 15. STS B LLoLeene e 3 Slelrlslewe HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 1. The Member States are hereby authorised to provide, under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2, for exceptions from Article 4(1) of Directive 2000/29/EC, with regard to the prohibitions referred to in Part A(15) of Annex III thereto for plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in Switzerland. 2. In addition to the requirements laid down in Annexes I and 1II to Directive 2000/29/EC in relation to plants of Vitis L., the following specific conditions shall be satisfied: (a) the plants shall be propagating material in the form of dormant bud material of the following varieties: — Chasselas blanc, — Gamaret noir, — Humagne noir, — Diolinoir, — Petite Arvine, — Amigne, — Cornalin, — Garanoir; (b) the buds shall be intended to be grafted in the Community, at premises referred to in (h), on to rootstocks produced in the Community; (c) the buds intended for the Community shall be: — harvested in stock nurseries, which are officially regis- tered. The lists of the registered nurseries shall be made available to the Member States making use of the derogation and to the Commission, at the latest by 15 January 2002. These lists shall include the name(s) of the varieties, the number of rows planted with these varieties, the number of plants per row for each of these nurseries, as far as they are deemed suitable for dispatch to the Community in 2002, under the condi- tions laid down in this Decision, — properly packed and the packaging made recognisable with a marking, enabling the identification of the regis- tered nursery and the variety,