6. 8. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 209/41 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 8 July 1985 authorizing the Netherlands to assess the satisfaction of the varietal purity standards laid down in Annex II to Council Directive 66/401/EEC for seed of apomictic uniclonal varieties of Poa pratensis, also on the basis of the results of seed and seedling testing (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (85/370/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed ('), as last amended by Directive 85/38/EEC (%), and in par- ticular Annex I, paragraph 4 thereof, Having regard to the request submitted by the Nether- lands, Whereas Directive 66/401/EEC provides that for the production of fodder plant seed, the satisfaction of the varietal purity standards is mainly assessed on the basis of the results of the prescribed field inspections; whereas in the case of crops of Poa pratensis belonging to varieties which are officially classified as apomictic uniclonal varieties’ under agreed procedures, a Member State may be authorized, upon application, to assess the satisfaction of these standards not only on that basis, where there is evidence that compliance with the varietal purity standards laid down in Annex I is ensured by appropriate seed testing or other appropriate means ; Whereas certain varieties of Poa pratensis have been officially classified in Member States as ‘apomictic uniclonal varieties’ under agreed procedures and are 00 J No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2298/66. J No L 16, 19. 1. 1985, p. 41. therefore eligible to be listed in the Common Cata- logue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species so clas- sified ; Whereas it has been established that there is evidence that compliance with the varietal purity standards laid down in Annex II is ensured in the Netherlands for the abovementioned kind of varieties of Poa pratensis, by appropriate seed and seedling testing ; Whereas the use of such seed and seedling testing is justified only when the results of field inspections carried out in accordance with paragraph 6 of Annex I prove to be inconclusive ; whereas that testing can be considered to be appropriate only where certain minimum conditions are met; Whereas, therefore, the Netherlands should be auth- orized to assess the satisfaction of the varietal purity standards in the case of crops of Poa pratensis belonging to the abovementioned kind of varieties also by such seed and seedling testing, in addition to the prescribed field inspections; whereas this authoriza- tion should at present not apply to the production of basic seed, where the number of cases of inconclusive field inspections has remained negligible in practice hitherto ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,