
Article 1 

1. By way of derogation from Article 7(2) of Directive 66/401/EEC and Annex III to that Directive, for Member States participating in the temporary experiment and for seed of the species listed in column 1 of Annex III to that Directive under the heading ‘GRAMINEAE’ the maximum weight of a lot shall be 25 tonnes.
2. For Member States participating in the temporary experiment, the conditions set out in the Annex to this Decision shall apply in addition to the conditions provided for in Directive 66/401/EEC.
3. Member States participating in the experiment shall inform the Commission accordingly. They may terminate their participation at any time by informing the Commission accordingly.
Article 2 
Member States shall for each year, by 31 March of the following year, present to the Commission and the other Member States a report on the results of the experiment.
Article 3 
The temporary experiment shall start on 1 January 2007 and end on 30 June 2012.
Article 4 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 December 2006.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

Conditions referred to in Article 1:

a)) When derogating from the maximum size of gramineae seed lots, the ISTA/ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size, as adopted by the Council of the OECD on 24 May 2006, shall be followed;
b)) seed producers shall be officially licensed by the Certification Authority;
c)) the official label prescribed under Directive 66/401/EEC shall bear the number of this Decision after the words ‘EC rules and standards’;
d)) samples supplied for Community comparative trials by a Member State participating in the temporary experiment shall derive from seed lots officially certified under the terms of the experiment; and
e)) the Certification Authority shall monitor the experiment, and carry out, where appropriate, checks of up to 5 % of the heterogeneity tests.
