L 240[34 Official Journal of the European Communities 7.9.2002 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1597/2002 of 6 September 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 1999/105/EC as regards the format of national lists of the basic material of forest reproductive material THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22 December 1999 on the marketing of forest reproductive mate- rial (!), and in particular Article 10(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) In accordance with Article 10(1) of Directive 1999/105/ EC Member States shall draw up a national register of the basic material of the various species approved on its territory. (2 In accordance with Article 10(2) of the same Directive Member States shall draw up a summary of the national register in the form of a national list to be made available on request to the Commission and the other Member States. The national list shall be presented in a common form for each ‘unit of approval, as referred to in Article 4(2)(b) of Directive 1999/105/EC and specified, for each category of forest reproductive material, in Article 2(l) of the same Directive. For the categories ‘source identified’ and ‘selected’ a summary of the ‘units of approval’ within one region of provenance is permitted. The details of the information to be provided in the list are specified in Article 10(2) referred to above. (3)  In order to ensure the proper functioning of the national lists and their comparability, the form of those lists should be standardised at Community level. This would assist the Commission to publish the list entitled ‘Community List of Approved Basic Material for the Production of Forest Reproductive Material’, as referred to in Article 11(1) of that Directive. (4)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horti- culture and Forestry, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The national list referred to in Article 10(2) of Directive 1999/ 105/EC shall be drawn up by each Member State in the standar- dised form as detailed in the Annex. Each Member State shall make its list available on request to the Commission and other Member States in the form of an electronic spreadsheet or data- base. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 2003. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 6 September 2002. () OJL 11, 15.1.2000, p. 17. For the Commission David BYRNE Member of the Commission