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Official Journal of the European Union
8.8.2013
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 763/2013
of 7 August 2013
amending Regulation (EC) No 637/2009 as regards the classification of certain plant species for the
purposes of assessing the suitability of the denominations of varieties
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
‘Guidelines with explanatory notes on Article 63 of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
on Community Plant Variety Rights’.
Union,
(2) Regulation
(EC)
No
637/2009
should
therefore
be
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/53/EC of 13 June
amended accordingly.
2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural
plant species ( 1 ) and in particular Article 9(6) thereof,
(3) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agri
2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed ( 2 ), and in particular
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,
Article 9(6) thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
Article 1
(1)
As regards certain species, the classes set out in Annex I
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 637/2009 is amended in
to Commission Regulation (EC) No 637/2009 of 22 July
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
2009 establishing implementing rules as to the suitability
of the denominations of varieties of agricultural plant
Article 2
species and vegetable species ( 3 ) should be adapted to
take into account changes in international botanical clas
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
sification. The Community Plant Variety Office already
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
included, in November 2012, those changes in the
European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 August 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 33.
( 3 ) OJ L 191, 23.7.2009, p. 10.

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ANNEX
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 637/2009 is amended as follows:
(1) in Table 1, ‘Classes within a genus’, the rows concerning classes 4.1 and 4.2 are replaced by the following:
Classes Scientific
names
‘Class 4.1 Solanum
tuberosum
Class 4.2 Solanum
lycopersicum, rootstocks of tomato and interspecific hybrids
Class 4.3 Solanum
melongena
Class 4.4 Solanum
other
than
classes 4.1, 4.2, 4.3’
(2) in Table 2, ‘Classes encompassing more than one genus’, the rows concerning classes 201 and 203 are replaced by
the following:
Classes Scientific
names
‘Class 201 Secale,
Triticum,
xTriticosecale
Class 203 (*) Agrostis,
Dactylis,
Festuca,
xFestulolium,
Lolium,
Phalaris,
Phleum and
Poa’

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