These maximum levels should be reviewed and, if necessary, reduced taking into account the progress in scientific and technological knowledge and the implementation of Commission Recommendation 2003/598/EC of 11 August 2003 on the prevention and reduction of patulin contamination in apple juice and apple juice ingredients in other beverages .

These maximum levels should be reviewed and, if necessary, reduced taking into account the progress in scientific and technological knowledge and the implementation of Commission Recommendation 2003/598/EC of 11 August 2003 on the prevention and reduction of patulin contamination in apple juice and apple juice ingredients in other beverages .

These maximum levels should be reviewed and, if necessary, reduced taking into account the progress in scientific and technological knowledge and the implementation of Commission Recommendation 2003/598/EC of 11 August 2003 on the prevention and reduction of patulin contamination in apple juice and apple juice ingredients in other beverages

(q) Member States making use of this derogation shall, where appropriate, in cooperation with the Member State of introduction ensure that at least two samples of 200 tubers shall be drawn from each consignment of 50 tonnes or part thereof, of imported potatoes pursuant to this Decision, for official examination in respect of Ralstonia solanacearum and Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. sepedonicus in accordance with the Community established methods for the detection and diagnosis of Ralstonia solanacearum(12) and Clavibacter Michiganensis ssp. Sepedonicus and in the case of potato spindle tuber viroid: the reverse-page method, or c-DNA hybridisation procedure; in the case of suspicion the lots shall remain separate under official control and may no ...[+++]t be marketed or used until it has been established that the presence of Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. sepedonicus, Ralstonia solanacearum or potato spindle tuber viroid was not detected in those examinations.

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 introduced new agrimonetary arrangements from 1 January 1993; whereas under these arrangements Article 11 (1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 of 30 April 1993 on detailed rules for determining and applying the agricultural conversion rates (7) specifies that in the case of aid per hectare the operative event for the agricultural conversion rate is the commencement of the marketing year for which the aid is granted; whereas in the case of potatoes the operative event should be differentiated by crop type, namely early maincrop and seed;

Whereas satisfactory results in potato cultivation depend to a large extent on the use of appropriate seed potatoes ; whereas to this end certain Member States have for some time restricted the marketing of seed potatoes to high-quality seed potatoes ; whereas they have been able to take advantage of the systematic plant selection work carried out over several decades which has resulted in the development of sufficiently stable and uniform potato varieties which, by reason of their characters, promise to be of great value for the purposes in view;