2005/2/EC: Commission Decision of 27 December 2004 setting out the arrangements for Community comparative trials and tests on propagating material of ornamental plants of certain species under Council Directive 98/56/EC for the years 2005 and 2006 (notified under document number C(2004) 5288)

Community comparative trials and tests shall be carried out in the years 2005 and 2006 on propagating material of the plants listed in the Annex. The eligible costs as well as the maximum Community financial contribution for the trials and tests for 2005 shall be as set out in the Annex. The details of the trials and tests are set out in the Annex.

In so far as propagating and planting material of the plants listed in the Annex is usually reproduced or marketed in their territories, the Member States shall take samples of this material and make them available to the Commission.

Subject to budgetary availability, the Commission may decide to continue the trials and tests set out in the Annex in 2006. The maximum Community financial contribution corresponding to 80 % of the eligible costs of a trial or test continued on this basis shall not exceed the amount specified in the Annex.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.