Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to report parliamentary committee draft

RemovedThis shall be included in FRM's category.

RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15: (15) ‘unit of approval’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM that has been authorised by the competent authorities;

RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 16: (16) ‘unit of notification’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM intended for the purpose of the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources that has been notified to the competent authorities;

RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 17: (17) ‘seed lot’ means a set of extracted or cleaned seeds from approved basic material and processed uniformly;

RemovedThe definition of seed lot should be related to the concept of marketable set of seeds, which can be sold to nurseries or deliberate seeding in forests.

RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 18: (18) ‘plant lot’ means a set of plants that have been grown from a single seed lot or vegetatively propagated plants which have been raised in a delineable area and processed uniformly;

RemovedThe definition shall be adjusted according to the OECD rules (point (1)).

RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19: (19) ‘lot code’ means the identification code of the seed lot or plant lot, as appropriate;

RemovedThe lots are identified by alphanumeric code, not a number.

RemovedArticle 6 – paragraph 1 – point c: (c) FRM shall be collected from a maximum number of individuals of the notified basic material, taking into account natural conditions and organisational and financial capacities.

RemovedThe number of individuals should be collected from a maximum and targeted number of individuals.

RemovedArticle 16 – paragraph 1: deleted

RemovedIt is not practically possible for a competent authority to issue a label for each lot.

RemovedArticle 16 – paragraph 2: 2. Competent authorities shall authorise the professional operator to issue the official label after the competent authority has attested compliance of that FRM with the requirements referred to in Article 5. The professional operator is authorised to issue that label, if, on the basis of an audit, the competent authority has concluded that the operator possesses the infrastructure and resources to issue the official label.

RemovedThe official label shall be issued by an authorized operator under the supervision of the competent authority.

RemovedArticle 16 – paragraph 3 a (new): 3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, an official label shall be issued by the competent authority for every lot of FRM attesting compliance of that FRM with the requirements referred to in Article 5.

RemovedArticle 19 – paragraph 2: That authorisation shall be notified to the Commission.

RemovedA notification is sufficient in order to maintain the standards of security and quality of the FRM.

RemovedAnnex IV – point 1 – point b: (b) The component clones or families shall be selected for their outstanding characteristics and due weight shall be given to the requirements set out in points 4 and 6 to 9 of Section B of Annex III, taking into account the specific purpose for which the resulting FRM will be used.

RemovedIn the FRM field there are many different categories of "operators" (for example research and forest institutes) which are responsible for the selection process.

RemovedAnnex IV – point 2 – point a: (a) The parents shall be selected for their outstanding characteristics or for their combining ability. In the case of a selection based on outstanding characteristics, due weight shall be given to the requirements set out in points 4 and 6 to 9 of Section B of Annex III, taking into account the specific purpose for which the resulting FRM will be used.

RemovedFor FRM there are many different "operators" (research institute for example) responsible for the selection, not only professional operator.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point a – paragraph 2: The professional operators shall report the material, methods and results of tests to the competent authority responsible for the approval of the basic material. The results presented shall be analysed in accordance with the internationally recognised procedures. In comparative tests, one or preferably several approved or pre-chosen standards as described in point 3(b) shall be used.

RemovedThe professional operator followings strictly the indications of the local authority.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point b – point i: (i) The professional operator shall provide the test results to assess the relevant characteristics specified in point (ii) and that professional operator shall indicate those results for each test in the test records.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point c – paragraph 1: The professional operator shall provide all information necessary for evaluation test results, including the location, climate, soil, past use, establishment, management and any damage due to abiotic/biotic factors, to the competent authority. The competent authority shall record the age of the basic material and the FRM and the results at the time of the evaluation.

RemovedThe professional operator followings strictly the indications of the local authority.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point d – point i: (i) Each sample of FRM shall be raised, planted and managed in an identical way as far as the types of plant material permit.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point d – point ii: (ii) Each experiment shall be established in a valid statistical design, in order that the individual characteristics of each component under examination can be evaluated.

RemovedAnnex V – point 1 – point e – point i: (i) The data from the experiments shall be analysed using internationally recognised statistical methods and the results shall be presented for each characteristic examined.

RemovedForest reproductive material (FRM) were so far regulated by Regulations EU 2016/2031 and 2017/625 and the Directive 1999/105/EC.

RemovedWith this proposal, the Commission unifies and updates the previous legal acts under a single legal framework, while taking into account new scientific and technological discoveries on FRM.

RemovedThe Rapporteur agrees broadly with the proposal of the Commission and welcomes the separation of plant and forest reproductive material, which are now treated in two different regulations.

RemovedThe Rapporteur appreciates the structure of the regulation as it improves the current framework and its implementation. The Rapporteur agrees with the derogations in case of supply difficulties and for research purposes. These derogations take into account the complex context of FRM and the management of forests in the European Union by respecting regional differences and existing partnerships between local authorities and research institutes. However, the Rapporteur underlines that it is not possible to collect all conservation varieties under Article 6, due to the complexity of forest material in comparison to plant reproductive materials (PRM).

RemovedWith regards to the labelling regulated under Article 16, the approach, the relation and the authorization between the competent authority and the final operator is improved with this proposal. The Rapporteur suggests reinforcing the role of the competent authority and proposes a new structure for the authorization procedure regarding labelling, with reference to the current Regulation 2016/2031.

RemovedConcerning the role of the competent authority under Article 19, the Rapporteur suggests that although a derogation shall be notified to the Commission, it shall not be subject to its approval.

RemovedThe Rapporteur is confident that with this proposal and the suggested amendments to it, we can achieve the goal of having a single regulation on FRM that improves the situation for producers, forest managers, market operators, researchers and competent authorities.