4. 4. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 75/19 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 6 March 1995 authorizing the Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 77/93/EEC in respect of potatoes for human consumption originating in South Africa (95/95/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 the Act of Acces- sion of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 14 (1) thereof, Having regard to the requests made by Denmark, Germany, FPrance, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Whereas, under the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC, potato tubers for human consumption originating in South Africa may in principle not be introduced into the Community because of the risk of introducing exotic potato diseases unknown in the Community ; Whereas by Decision 93/159/EEC (%) the Commission authorized certain Member States to provide for deroga- tions in respect of potatoes for human consumption ori- ginating in South Africa, under specified conditions in the 1993 season ; Whereas there have been no confirmed findings of diseases and pests on samples drawn from potatoes imported pursuant to Decision 93/159/EEC; Whereas the circumstances justifying the authorization still obtain ; ' 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 67, 19. 3. 1993, p. 24. HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 1. Member States are hereby authorized to provide, under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2, for dero- gations from Article 4 (1) of Directive 77/93/EEC, with regard to the prohibitions referred to in Part A, point 12 of Annex III thereto for potatoes for human consumption originating in South Africa. 2.  The following specific conditions shall be satisfied : (a) the potatoes shall be potatoes for human consump- tion ; (b) they shall have been grown from seed potatoes certi- fied in the South African seed potato certification scheme or from seed potatoes certified in one of the Member States ; (c) they shall have been grown in defined areas where Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith has not been detected ; (d) regular planned monitoring of imports into South Africa and of seed potatoes and ware potatoes marketed within South Africa is continued by means of examination and testing of representative samples by scientifically recognized methods for Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spieckermann et Kotthoff) Davis et al.,, Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith and potato spindle tuber viroid ; (¢) they shall have been handled by machinery which is reserved for them or which has been disinfected in an appropriate manner after each use for other purposes ; (f) they shall be packed either in new bags or in con- tainers which have been disinfected in'an appropriate manner ; and an official label shall be applied to each bag or container, bearing the information specified in the Annex;