No L 99/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 4. 86 COMMISSION DECISION N of 10 March 1986 amending Decision 80/862/EEC authorizing the Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 77/93/EEC, in respect of potato breeding material (86/119/BEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the intro- duction into the Member States of harmful organisms of plant or plant products ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85(%), and in particular Article 14 (3) thereof, Having regard‘to the requests made by the Member States, Whereas under the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC, potato material intended for planting, other than tubers, may in principle not be introduced into any Member State and potato tubers intended for planting may in prin- ciple only be introduced into the Member States where they belong to officially accepted varieties or to advance selections ; Whereas, however, Article 14 (3) of the abovementioned Directive permits derogations from that rule, where it is established that there is no risk of spreading harmful organisms ; Whereas in the Member States there is a need to import potato material, including tubers, for work on varietal selection, or for gene conservation or official scientific research purposes ; Whereas the Commission has established that on the basis of the information available at present, there is under such circumstances, risk of spreading harmful orga- nism provided that certain special technical conditions are satisfied ; ) Whereas by Decision 80/862/EEC (*), as amended by Decision 81/587/EEC (*) the Commission has already granted such a derogation to the Member States for a period which expired on 31 December 1985; No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. No L 362, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8. No L 248, 19. 9. 1980, p. 25. No L 210, 30. 7. 1981, p. §3. Whereas there has since then been no information giving cause for its restriction to the abovementioned period; whereas there is, moreover, no new information giving cause for its revisions; Whereas the Member States should therefore be author- ized to provide for derogations in respect of potato breed- ing material for a further period under those special tech- nical conditions ; Whereas the authorization will be extended unless new - information gives cause for its revisions; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee en Plant Health, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 In Article 2, first sentence, of Decision 80/862/EEC, the year ‘1985’ is hereby replaced by ‘1990’. : Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 10 March 1986. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President