24. 1. 97 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 22/35 COMMISSION DECISION of 14 January 1997 authorizing the Member States exceptionally to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 77/93/EEC in respect of plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in Croatia or Slovenia (Text with EEA relevance) (97/78/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the intro- duction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community ('), as last amended by Commission Directive 96/78/EC (%), and in particular Article 14 (1) thereof, Having regard to the request made by Italy, Whereas, under the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC, plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in third countries, may in principle not be introduced into the Community; Whereas the imports would take place for a limited period of time to enable specialised nurseries to multiply these plants in the EU, whereby these plants will be re-exported afterwards to Croatia or Slovenia; Whereas, in respect of the said imports into the Com- munity of the said plants, on the basis of the information supplied by the relevant Member State, it appears that in Croatia and Slovenia, plants of Vitis L. can be grown under adequate health conditions and that there are no sources for the introduction of exotic diseases affecting plants of Vitis L; Whereas therefore a derogation should be authorized 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; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health, OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. OJ No L 321, 12. 12. 1996, p. 20. O] No ('; L 93, 17. 4. 1968, p. 15. 2 ( 0 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 1. The Member States are hereby authorized to provide, under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2, for excep- tions from Article 4 (1) of Directive 77/93/EEC, with regard to the prohibitions referred to in Part A, point 15 of Annex III thereto for plants of Vitis L., other than fruits, originating in Croatia or Slovenia. 2.  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: — Babic, — Plavaz Malj, — Plavina, — Debit, — Kug, — Marastina, — Gilovea, — Zlatarica, — Blastina, — Kirvatica; (b) the buds shall be intended to be grafted in the Community at premises referred to in (h), on to root- stocks produced in the Community; (c) the buds intended for the Community shall be: — harvested from propagating material grown in vineyards, which are officially registered. The lists of the registered vineyards shall be made available to the Member States making use of the deroga- tion and to the Commission, at the latest by 15 January 1997. 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 vineyards, as far as they are deemed suitable for dispatch to the Community in 1997, under the conditions laid down in this Decision, — properly packed and the packaging made recog- nizable with a marking, enabling the identification of the registered nursery and the variety,