1.In order to remove any temporary difficulties in the general supply of basic seed potatoes or certified seed potatoes that occur in the Community and cannot be otherwise overcome, it may be decided in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 25(2) that Member States shall permit, for a specified period, the marketing throughout the Community in quantities necessary to resolve the supply difficulties of seed potatoes of a category subject to less stringent requirements, or of seed potatoes of varieties not included in the Common Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species or in the national catalogues of varieties of the Member States.
2.For a category of seed potatoes of any given variety, the official label shall be that provided for the corresponding category; for seed potatoes of varieties not included in the abovementioned catalogues the colour of the official label shall be brown. The label shall always state that the seed potatoes in question are of a category satisfying less stringent requirements.
3.Rules for the application of paragraph 1 may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 25(2).