Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2021/415 of 8 March 2021 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC and 66/402/EEC in order to adapt to the evolution of scientific and technical knowledge, taxonomic groups and names of certain species of seeds and weeds (Text with EEA relevance)

Directive 66/401/EEC is amended as follows: (1) in Αrticle 2(1)(A)(a), the 16th definition is replaced by the following: ‘Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Hack.Hard fescue’ (2) Annex II is amended in accordance with Part A of the Annex to this Directive.

Directive 66/402/EEC is amended as follows: (1) Article 2(1)(A) is amended as follows: (a) the eighth definition is replaced by the following: ‘Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolorSorghum’ (b) the ninth definition is replaced by the following: ‘Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex DavidseSudan grass’ (c) the 11th definition is replaced by the following: ‘Triticum aestivum L. subsp. aestivumWheat’ (d) the 12th definition is replaced by the following: ‘Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum (Desf.) van SlagerenDurum wheat’ (e) the 13th definition is replaced by the following: ‘Triticum aestivum L. subsp. spelta (L.) Thell.Spelt wheat’ (f) the 15th definition is replaced by the following: ‘Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor x Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex DavidseHybrids resulting from the crossing of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor and Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse’ (2) Annexes I, II and III are amended in accordance with Part B of the Annex to this Directive.

1 Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 January 2022 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 February 2022. 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.