The Commission decided to present an amended proposal following Parliament's opinion of 16
December 1997, incorporating almost all the proposed amendments.
The amendments concern the following points:
- deletion of the reference to tomatoes as a pathogenic agent, as tomato plants themselves do not
transmit the disease,
- introduction of additional precautionary measures at national level based on the level of estimated
risk, in relation to production of the listed plant material and the movement of seed potato lots;
- in cases of suspected occurrence of the disease, implementation of appropriate precautionary
measures in the Member States and notification to other Member States when the disease is
suspected in one of them,
- implementation of the directive from 1 March 1998 instead of 1 July 1997.
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