Commission Directive 2005/91/EC of 16 December 2005 amending Directive 2003/90/EC setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/53/EC as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of agricultural plant species (Text with EEA relevance)

Annexes I and II to Directive 2003/90/EC are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Directive.

For examinations started before 1 April 2006, Member States may decide to apply the text of Directive 2003/90/EC applying before its amendment by the present Directive.

Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 March 2006 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive. They shall apply those provisions from 1 April 2006. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

This Directive shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.