Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 of 1 December 2016 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species Lolium x boucheanum Kunth (Text with EEA relevance )

Directive 66/401/EEC is amended as follows: (1) Article 2(1)(A) is amended as follows: (a) In point (a), the words ‘Lolium x boucheanum Kunth’ are replaced by the words ‘Lolium x hybridum Hausskn’. (b) Point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) Fabaceae (Leguminosae) LegumesBiserrula pelecinus L.BiserrulaGalega orientalis Lam.Fodder galegaHedysarum coronarium L.SullaLathyrus cicera L.Chickling vetch/Dwarf chickling vetchLotus corniculatus L.Birdsfoot trefoilLupinus albus L.White lupinLupinus angustifolius L.Narrow-leaved lupinLupinus luteus L.Yellow lupinMedicago doliata Carmign.Straight-spined medicMedicago italica (Mill.) FioriDisc medicMedicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel.Shore medic/Strand medicMedicago lupulina L.TrefoilMedicago murex Willd.Sphere medicMedicago polymorpha L.Bur medicMedicago rugosa Desr.Wrinkled medic/Gama medicMedicago sativa L.LucerneMedicago scutellata (L.) Mill.Snail medic/Shield medicMedicago truncatula Gaertn.Barrel medicMedicago × varia T. Martyn SandSand lucerneOnobrychis viciifolia Scop.SainfoinOrnithopus compressus L.Yellow serradellaOrnithopus sativus Brot.SerradellaPisum sativum L. (partim)Field peaTrifolium alexandrinum L.Berseem, Egyptian cloverTrifolium fragiferum L.Strawberry cloverTrifolium glanduliferum Boiss.Glandular cloverTrifolium hirtum All.Rose cloverTrifolium hybridum L.Alsike cloverTrifolium incarnatum L.Crimson cloverTrifolium isthmocarpum Brot.Moroccan cloverTrifolium michelianum SaviBalansa cloverTrifolium pratense L.Red cloverTrifolium repens L.White cloverTrifolium resupinatum L.Persian cloverTrifolium squarrosum L.Squarrose cloverTrifolium subterraneum L.Subterranean cloverTrifolium vesiculosum SaviArrow-leaf cloverTrigonella foenum-graecum L.FenugreekVicia benghalensis L.Purple vetchVicia faba L.Field beanVicia pannonica CrantzHungarian vetchVicia sativa L.Common vetchVicia villosa RothHairy vetch’. (c) In point (c), the following entry is inserted after ‘Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth. California bluebell’: ‘Plantago lanceolata L.Ribwort plantain’ (2) In Article 3(1), the words ‘Lolium x boucheanum Kunth’ are replaced by the words ‘Lolium x hybridum Hausskn’. (3) Annexes II and III are amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.

1 Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 2017 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. They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2018. 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.

2 Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

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

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.