PURPOSE : to consolidate Directive 70/457/EEC on the marketing of agricultural plant species.
COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Directive 2002/53/EC on the marketing of agricultural plant species.
CONTENT : for reasons of clarity and rationality, this Directive aims to consolidate Directive 70/457/EEC, modified on several occasions since its adoption. The new directive replaces the various directives which are the subject of the codification procedure. It respects the substance of the codified texts completely and is restricted to gathering them in a single text while making only formal amendments required by the procedure of codification.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 9 August, 2002.�