
Article 1 
Member States shall issue on request the official certificate provided for in Article 11 of Directive 66/402/EEC;

((a)) if the crop is free of Avena fatua at the time of the field inspection officially carried out in conformity with the provisions of Annex I to that Directive and if a sample of a least 1 kg, drawn in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of that Directive, is free of Avena fatua at the time of official examination; or
((b)) if a sample of at least 3 kg, drawn in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of that Directive, is free of Avena fatua at the time of official examination.
Article 2 
Member States may prescribe that the official certificate is issued only in one of the two cases provided for in Article 1.
Article 3 
Directive 74/268/EEC, as amended by the Directive listed in Annex I, Part A, is repealed, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex I, Part B.
References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II.
Article 4 
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 May 2006.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX I

PART A

Commission Directive 74/268/EEC (OJ L 141, 24.5.1974, p. 19)
Commission Directive 78/511/EEC (OJ L 157, 15.6.1978, p. 34)

PART B

Directive Time-limit for transposition
74/268/EEC 1 July 1974
78/511/EEC 1 July 1980

ANNEX II
Directive 74/268/EEC This Directive
Article 2(1), introductory wording Article 1, introductory wording
Article 2(1), first indent Article 1, point (a)
Article 2(1), second indent Article 1, point (b)
Article 3 Article 2
Article 4 —
— Article 3
— Article 4
Article 5 Article 5
— Annexes I-II