No L 2591/48 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 12. 95 I (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 24 November 1995 authorizing Member States temporarily to take additional measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards the Kingdom of the Netherlands (95/506/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 introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community ('), as last amended by Directive 95/41/EC (%), and in particular Article 15(3) thereof, Whereas, where a Member State considers that there is an imminent danger of the introduction into its territory of Preudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith, the cause of potato brown rot, from another Member State, it may temporarily take any additional measures necessary to protect itself from that danger; Whereas the Kingdom of the Netherlands informed the other Member States and the Commission on 3 October 1995 that some samples of potatoes originating in that country were identified as infected by Pseudomonas solanacearum; whereas complementary reports supplied by the Netherlands indicated that more samples of the 1995 potato production showed infection by Pseudomonas solanacearum ; Whereas Sweden, Italy and Denmark, on the basis of the abovementioned information from the Netherlands, had adopted on 27 October 1995, 6 November 1995 and 3 November 1995, respectively, certain additional measures applicable to potatoes originating in the Netherlands, with a view to strengthening protection against the introduction of Pseudomonas solanacearum from the Netherlands; Whereas Greece, Portugal, Finland and France have confirmed the intention to adopt similar additional measures applicable to potatoes originating in the Netherlands ; Whereas these additional measures include special testing requirements () OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. () O] No L 182, 2. 8. 1995, p. 17.