Commission Decision of 27 January 2003 authorising certain Member States to provide for temporary derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of seed potatoes originating in certain provinces of Canada (notified under document number C(2003) 334) (Only the Spanish, Greek, Italian and Portuguese texts are authentic) (2003/61/EC)

Article 5 U.K.

Seed potatoes intended to be exported to the Community shall have been subject to legislative, administrative or other arrangements to ensure:

(a)

direct supervision and control by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of:

(i)

the sampling process, i.e. the collection, tagging and sealing;

(ii)

the labelling system through appropriate label accountability procedures, so that for each lot of seed potatoes within each consignment shipped to the Community a numbered label is used and stitched on the bags separately from the certification labels;

(iii)

the relevant colour code corresponding to a specified importer in the importing Member State;

(b)

that at the time of loading the vessel, two sealed bags of seed potatoes of each lot shipped to the Community are kept aside and stored under the supervision and control of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, at least until the results of the examinations referred to in Article 10 are completed;

(c)

that the lots are kept separate in all operations including transport, at least until delivery to the premises of the importers referred to in Article 7.