No L 196/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 26.7.75 SECOND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 26 June 1975 amending Directive No 66/404/EEC on the marketing of forest reproductive material (75/445/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 Commission; Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (1); Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (2); Whereas for reasons given below certain provisions of Council Directive No 66/404/EEC (3) of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of forest reproductive material, as amended by Directive No 69/64/EEC (%), should be amended; Whereas forest reproductive material marketable in the Community should be divided into two cate- gories: ‘selective reproductive material’ and ‘tested reproductive material’; whereas material satisfying the requirements of Directive No 66/404/EEC should constitute the first category; whereas the second category may include only such material as is shown by comparative tests to be genetically superior; Whereas poplar cultivation has increased to such an extent that the marketing of poplar reproductive material should be confined to the category ‘tested reproductive material’; Whereas approval of basic material for the pro- duction of tested reproductive material must be given in the Member States in accordance with identical rules which are as strict as possible, and whereas the setting up and management of comparative tests and 1 (1) O] No C 108, 10. 12. 1973, p. 26. (2) O] No C 8, 31. 1. 1974, p. 19. (3) OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2326/66. (4) O] No L 48, 26. 2. 1969, p. 12. 2 the assessment of the results thereof are an essential element of these common rules; Whereas comparative tests take a long time to yield definitive results; whereas it should be possible for Member States in certain circumstances to approve basic material for the production of tested reproduc- tive material if the provisional results of the tests in progress warrant this; Whereas comparative tests using methods which differ from those provided for in this Directive are at present being carried out in a number of Member States; whereas those Member States should be authorized, on a temporary basis and subject to certain conditions, to make use of the results of such tests; Whereas, in order to facilitate intra-Community trade, a common catalogue of basic material approved for the production of forest reproductive material should be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities; Whereas each Member State should be able to obtain precise information on forest reproductive material coming from other Member States or from third countries; Whereas difficulties have been encountered in the various Member States during the import of repro- ductive material, because each State requires the importer to give different information; whereas such information should therefore also be harmonized; Whereas any restrictions which Member States consider imposing on the marketing of forest reproductive material should be subject to a Com- munity procedure which ensures close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States; Whereas an accelerated procedure should be used in order to facilitate essentially technical amendments to the Annexes;