L 119/48 Official Journal of the European Union 9.5.2007 COMMISSION DECISION of 2 May 2007 releasing the United Kingdom from certain obligations for the marketing of vegetable seed under Council Directive 2002/55/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 1836) (Only the English text is authentic) (2007/321[EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (4) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agri- culture, Horticulture and Forestry, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Having regard to Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed ('), and in particular Article 49 thereof, Article 1 The United Kingdom is released from the obligation to apply Directive 2002/55/EC, with the exception of Articles 2 to 20, 34(1) and 39, to the following species or sub-species. Having regard to the request submitted by the United Kingdom, Allium cepa L. Whereas: — Aggregatum Group Shallot Allium fistulosum L. Japanese bunching onion or Welsh onion (1)  Under Directive 2002/55/EC the Commission may, . . . subject to certain conditions, release a Member State Allium sativum L. Garlic from ol?ligations. for. the marketing of vegetable seed Allium schoenoprasum L. Chives set out in that Directive. Rheum rhabarbarum L. Rhubarb () The United Kingdom has applied for release from its Article 2 obligations in respect of certain species and a sub-species. This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom. (3)  Since the seed of those species and of that sub-species is not normally reproduced in the United Kingdom and the normal reproduction concerns exclusively propagating and planting material other than seed, the United Kingdom should be released from certain obligations under Directive 2002/55/EC in respect of the species and the sub-species in question. () O] L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 33. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2006/124/EC (O] L 339, 6.12.2006, p. 12). Dorne at Brussels, 2 May 2007. For the Commission Markos KYPRIANOU Member of the Commission